Breast Cancer Sucks #JaimeStrong

Most people know by now that my awesome wife Jamie (aka: Jaime) found a lump in her breast about 2 weeks ago. Since then life has been a whirlwind of doctors appointments, mammograms, ultrasounds, MRIs, and biopsies. Unfortunately, during these tests they found another mass and have diagnosed them both as an aggressive form of invasive ductal carcinoma...Breast Cancer. Right now they believe that they are still stage 2 and have not spread to the lymph nodes, however, they cannot confirm this until further testing is done.

On top of the less than optimal diagnosis, all of these tests, procedures, and doctors appointments come with a price tag. Right now our out-of-pocket max is $5,500. Being that Jamie and I are both not long out of school, we are still rebuilding our savings and paying off a boatload of student loans. Now Jamie is staring down the barrel of a mastectomy that will take her out of one of her jobs for 1 month and the rest of them for 3. We are both working ourselves into the ground juggling 3-4 jobs each to pay the deductible in anticipation of her being out of work. This is not the best thing for her to be doing right now, and it's making it nearly impossible for me to be there for her as much as she (won't admit she) needs.

If you can help out this volunteer, EMT, Paramedic, LifeStar dispatcher, and CPR instructor duo, it would be greatly and forever appreciated.

Thank you from both of us.