Let me start off by saying this! I use to feel pretty.( See first pic- before cancer) I used to feel motivated. I used to feel like I could still start my own business. I was excited to marry my high school sweetheart I reconnected with.(See last pic below, which by the way was the day before I got sick) I found a church I loved. Things were looking up. My fiancé and I were both going through a divorce. He had gotten on Facebook for the first time ever and friend requested me. I had recently separated from my then husband. My fiancé and I dated for 2 years in high school and everyone including family on both sides thought we would marry. We broke up our senior year and I continued to hold a candle for him. I immediately started dating this other guy to get over my fiancé. He also went to our school. After some time I ended up falling in love,  I graduated, we got pregnant and soon after  got married. We were young! When my fiancé connected with me on Facebook and asked how I was. I told him I wasn’t very good. He said neither was he. After 2 years of counseling he and his wife had been separated about a year. We were in two different states. The next thing we know we are packing and moving to a whole new state together where a friend from high school lived, (my fiancés best friend ) and had recommended. We moved to where we are in October 2020. Our first year was blissful. Our kids were grown and doing their own thing. We were so happy.

    Then one day at the end of October, 2021 I needed a wisdom tooth pulled. The dentist talked me into having both bottom wisdom teeth pulled.( I had the top ones taken out years ago). To make a long story about the dentist short- I’ll get to my point quickly. 1. I go to get my wisdom teeth pulled. 2. I was new to my state and didn’t know the areas well. 3. I enter place to get wisdom teeth pulled and a series of events occurred that were not ethical. 4. I end up hyperventilating during the procedure and aspirated. 5. I went home to recover and within a couple days  I knew something wasn’t right. (See pic below of me bruised)

    I started going downhill within a week. I even went to my dentist and told her something was wrong. She thought I was healing fine. The next thing I know I have vertigo, nerve damage in my right arm and my right jaw felt horrible, then my left. My hearing in my ear was slightly muffled. I was referred to an endodontist. He did an X-ray and said my jaw were broken. With that said I ended up going to a new oral surgeon for a second opinion and an ear nose, throat specialist. Indeed I had vertigo, some slight hearing damage, and a broken jaw on left and right of my mouth. I couldn’t believe it! The bruising I got from it was worse than it should have been. I was told I probably shouldn’t have had the wisdom teeth pulled at that time because my calcium was low and my jaw was brittle. They were wanting to wire my jaw shut. I work remote and couldn’t hardly function. I was taken off work.

    Then, things got worse!! For my step dads 80 th birthday I flew him out for an early Thanksgiving.( He’s been in my life since I was 3 and like a second dad to me) It was planned before all the above had happened. My vertigo was nearly gone as well as most the bruising. My jaw still hurt, but I wasn’t going to let it ruin our early Thanksgiving had a good day with my dad and rode around on a golf cart on paths we have here. I was having a little trouble breathing, but not bad. I thought it was allergies.( The last pic of my fiancé and I was the day before I got sick. Don’t I look normal?) Well, November 13th, 2021 I am in the kitchen roasting a turkey and doing the sides and even some homemade bread.( Actually, it was my bread making machine I used.) I started having more trouble breathing, but if I sat down it seemed to get better or so I thought. My fiancé suggested going to urgent care, but I of course, refused and wasn’t going to ruin early Thanksgiving.

    My fiancé ended up taking over the last hour of prepping and I sat down to rest. A couple that are our friends also joined us and we all sat down to dinner. My dad told me I didn’t look good. I couldn’t even eat. We said grace and then I just sat there trying to figure out what was wrong as I continued to feel worse. My friend suggested I go to urgent care. By this time , I was a little more concerned. It was 7 minutes before Urgent care closed. My fiancé drove like a bat out of hell! We got to Urgent care in the Knick of time, and as soon as the nurse saw me she immediately got me on oxygen and checked my O2 level. I was in the low 70’s and my heart rate was high! The next thing I know I am in an ambulance.

    It’s NOT COVID! Everyone thought that it was covid at first, then pneumonia. Really bad pneumonia.  It may have actually slowly started from me aspirating at the dentist! I spent a couple days in the hospital and was sent home. I had oxygen tanks sent to my home a wall unit for oxygen. I was on 2ltrs.My doctor thought it was still pneumonia and would subside. Within a few days I woke up to half of my right face not working and my right eye wouldn’t shut. My fiancé thought I was having a stroke. He rushed me to the ER and at the same time my O2 level was dropping again. I had not had a stroke and they waited 3 days to start any treatment which is just acyclovir tablets and is not a for sure help. I ended up with it for 4 months before it subsided. Now, I have slight nerve damage, thank God that’s the only residual. I wore a patch over my eye as well because it wouldn’t shut.(See pic below that has my crooked face) I ended up needing more oxygen liters. I started to get a little better breathing wise so they sent me home…….

   To not drag this out even more I was in and out of the hospital 6 times. They couldn’t figure out for nearly 3 months what was wrong with me and several doctors were on my case. There was an infectious disease doctor, 2 pulmonary doctors,  a cardiologist, a hospitalist, and a neurologist surgeon. None of them could figure out what was wrong with me. I was tested for every disease you can think of! Finally, I was at another hospital that could do a lung biopsy and bone marrow biopsy.  I woke up in ICU and had been out for 3 days. By this time I was on so much oxygen they had me on a high flow unit. At first I wasn’t told what I had. I couldn’t talk because they had intubated me. During that time they only allowed one person in a 24 hr period due to covid and you couldn’t switch out the visitor. My other dad (biological whom I’m also close to had flown in) I woke up to him in the room. The doctor came in. I wanted my fiancé there, but that wasn’t going to happen on this day. Then, I was told words no-one wants to hear. “You have cancer. It’s a form of Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.” said the Oncologist. I was also told later that me aspirating at the dentist could have woken this up and it had been dormant. I didn’t know the stage yet. The doctor only said at that moment that it was aggressive and I needed chemo (2 round) right away. had spent my birthday(in December. See  pic below my fiancé and I below in my hospital bed), New Years, and would spend Valentine’s Day, in the hospital.

My lungs looked like cotton candy!!! See the X- ray pic below!

All the white was due to the cancer. They couldn’t see the nodules on my lungs though because of how bad my lungs were. I also had it on my spine and spleen. I wasn’t producing phlegm. It was just that my alveoli’s were not getting oxygen enough. Everywhere that is white in the X-ray was bad. Real bad. I soon learned it was Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Large Diffuse B Cell- Stage IV. The months that followed were worse. I ended up in a wheelchair, I got infections, I lost my hair, I lost a lot of weight (30 lbs). My nose got ulcers from all the oxygen, and I was in pain. More than I let on. I couldn’t hardly move. I got out of breath just going from the couch to my bed. Eventually I couldn’t even stand up. Through all of this my fiancé was by my side. He has medical issues that give him constant pain. He has RA. My dad after a few weeks had to go home. We didn’t know my prognosis. It was my will, my faith, my fiancé, and a few some people from church that got me through the worse part. My daughter was awesome coming twice for a week  and then 2 to help my finance. But, he mostly did it all on his own and tried to work too. We got behind in bills. We started using my credit card to live off of. He was driving for Uber so his schedule could be flexible to care for me and take me to the doctor’s or when I was back in the hospital off and on. During all of this his Ex filed for divorce and they had a teen who was going on 17. He tried to move here, but got homesick. It was too expensive for us to stay in that state and the jobs were terrible if you found one. She was stating that my fiancé made $7,000 a month so she could get a good amount of child support. It wasn’t true. We turned in proof (tax 1040 paperwork, but it was too late when we finally got his taxes done and turned it in)We were drowning. My fiancé couldn’t deal with the divorce and child support paperwork which was taking place in another state. He couldn’t afford a lawyer and she could. He had managed a shop with her for over 20 years. When they split up he had to turn in his keys to the shop. Her family owned the place. He lost his job, his insurance, a lot of his stuff. Since he emotionally couldn’t deal with the paperwork , had no lawyer, and was consumed with taking care of me (she knew I had cancer). She was also living with a man she fell in love with. Her timing with all the paperwork and court dates caused us an insane amount of stress. The pressure of the medical bills, the living expenses, our accumulating debt to survive, and me.

   I felt useless. This went on for a year. As of December 2022 I am in remission. I thank GOD I am still here. I have side effects from the chemo though. I have a lot of pain in my joints, and we are on a 3rd medication to try and help me. I went into menopause as well, and I have a couple heart defects. I tire easy. It took me all night to write this because my wrists and fingers are constantly in pain .My fiancé has put in several applications to no avail. When you’ve had the same job running a pawn shop for over 20 years it seems no one wants to hire him unless it’s less than $16.00 per hour. If they call where he worked and asked about him they would probably hang up on the person. He is a good man, and they just couldn’t make it work. He too got married young. He needs to make at least $25.00 per hour (since he has to pay child support and they currently want $1,100 a month plus $500 in arrears going back to February 2022- so $1,600 a month) and due to his RA he needs to be able to sit and stand. We currently can’t afford his medication and it’s a preexisting condition. If we both could get remote jobs ( I’ve had two in the past years, but to get the pay I need they are quite stressful and I can’t seem to get anything for even $17.00 and hour. I have been getting some disability till I’m released back to my current job, but they are making it seem like they are going to lay me off. Why? Because I was there less than a year when I got sick and apparently there is a loophole that allows this. I wish he and I could work together. That was our dream when we got here, but it didn’t come to fruition.

   My immune system is horrible. I seem to catch every cold that comes around. We are stressed and not sleeping. How much debt are we in with literally barely anything coming in. Close to $220, 000 is our total debt. We also were trying to plan a weeding, but can’t since there is no money. We only have one car. We are blessed though, because I am alive and we currently still have a roof over our head. I don’t expect anything. If you are hiring with a legitimate job that pays well (remote) that’s not crazy stressful, has medical benefits, we aren’t making sells calls,  it’s not an MLM, or pyramid, or dealing with upset customers all the time then maybe you can hire us. You can email tailoredtaticalarmory@gmail.com. It’s an old email we were going to use and my fiancé was going to teach gun safety.  It didn’t come to fruition. I am also an author, but my publisher was new and got out of the business. My book is still out there, but I see no proceeds. The proceeds I got in the beginning I donated to a charity for people with Autism. So, a publisher that wants to take me on would be great too. I’m also slowly working on a second book. I pray you got to the end of this. I know it was long. I won’t lie though, donations would be quite helpful. Prayers too if you pray. Thank you for taking the time to read my story. It may not reach anyone. If I’ve learned anything about this whole experience, it’s to never give up HOPE or FAITH! Thank you.

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I’ve sunk to an all new low begging strangers for money. I’ve thought of clever ways to get the money I need but I just can’t fathom selling nude pics or feet pics for cash. I don’t even know where to begin. I’ll start at the beginning I guess. On may 28 2008 my beautiful son Leo turned 5. That night he started having seizures and was rushed to a hospital where after multiple tests they discovered he had a brain tumor. Two months later when they removed it they inform his father(my husband) and I that our beautiful blue eyed boy had stage four glioblastoma. Brain cancer. A unsurvivable deadly cancer. About 5% made it past 5 years. Leo made it 5 years and 2 weeks. His little soul left his beautiful body on June 15 2013 as I lay next to him sleeping. The worst day of mine and my husband’s life. I should also mention that on December 29 2009 as my husband drove home after working a 12 hour day he was hit by a punk 19 year old kid who was speeding and blew through a four way stop straight into my husbands car. It took the rescuers 2 hours to remove him from the car then they airlifted him to Harborview hospital in Seattle where he was for over a month. He had a broken neck, broke left arm and both his legs were so mangled the doctors didn’t think they could save them. Thank god they were able to after multiple surgeries. My husband couldn’t work for a whole year and I was a stay at home mom taking care of our sick child and our older son and now also a caregiver to my husband. The kid that hit him had no insurance the only money we got that entire year was from our car insurance company. So we eventually fell behind on our mortgage. Eventually we were foreclosed on in 2015 and forced to leave the home we had tried to raise our sons in. After that we had to file bankruptcy to unload the crippling debt from the house and the 100’s of thousands dollars in doctors bills. My husband recently had to have a hip replacement caused from the accident so we still are paying for this accident that wasn’t his fault out of our own pockets years later. For a couple years we rented a nice home from some friends until they had to sell it to save the home they live in. So we had to move into my in laws house where we currently are now. Before that move we were given the biggest surprise of our lives…I was pregnant (completely unplanned) at 37 years old. The next day after finding out about the pregnancy I found out my husband had been cheating on me for years. I wanted to die. I still want to die when I think about it. I decided to stay with him and have our baby. I have to add that I honestly had nowhere I could go anyway. I was stuck. But I was blessed with a beautiful daughter who looks just like her brother Leo. It’s like he sent her to me because he knew I needed her to survive. She’s absolutely beautiful. The day of her birth we were told she had a cleft palate. She’s had a few surgeries to repair it and will have to have more surgeries in the future. She is in speech therapy and has had to have a couple sets of tubes out in her ears because the cleft had caused some hearing loss. So you can imagine the doctor bills form that. So now to my current situation. We are supposed to be saving money to try to buy a house so we can move out of my in-laws. And they are starting to become vocal about how they would like that to happen soon. But we still have debt and cannot afford a mortgage payment and can’t even afford to pay the outrageous rent that people are charging nowadays. We have about $35,000 in debt that until that’s payed off we are stuck. Everyday I feel like I’m drowning and running out of air. I have no one to turn to and honestly I’m not having the best thoughts lately. I’m so tired of fighting my way through life and getting nowhere. We can’t catch a break ever. I just need a break. I don’t understand why life has been so hard for us. But if someone out there can take pity on us and help us out I can’t even describe how grateful I would be. And I would try to do something good in return for someone else at some point in the future. Pay it forward. Please consider helping us. All I want is to give my little girl a home she can be proud of. I want a home with my family. I just want to be happy. If anyone makes it all the way through this pitiful story thank you for even taking the time to read about my pathetic life. The pic is of my beautiful angel Leo.

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That’s my husbands name. I hope I did the link thing right. Im an idiot when it comes to online stuff. Thank you.

I am requesting donations to assist with paying off an ambulance bill from the hospital from a few months back that I had to endure due to a foot injury and no one was able to drive me. I was in severe pain from some broken bones in my foot. I had to take an ambulance and stay to be admitted in the emergency department for processing. They took x rays, assisted with other tests and assisted with casting and crutches. I was able to have someone pick me up so at least I didn’t have to endure additional charges.  Total for just the one bill is $1,174.00 During this time I was forced to leave my job the same week that I was injured, since I did not qualify for Family Leave at the time,I was not able to commit to continuing my job,  my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and needed assistance to get to appointments and daily care and needs. She also assists with caring for my adult child which becomes full time for me as well, she is disabled and autistic with severe delays in development.  I was left uninsured at the time trying to assist with her care, and tried to work out payments but was not able to comply due to the financial burdens of household bills to keep my home going and mortgage paid. This bill left unpaid will force the county to levy my bank account. I am currently working as a freelancer but have not been able to catch up to make these payments and am not in a place to get a loan at this time. I am asking that any donations would be greatly appreciated and a true blessing be upon the giver. My intention will be to be diligent, pay this debt off and pay it forward. I do not like to ask and I have prayed on this over time as I have many more large bills to cover, but I’m starting with the oldest and one I’m concerned will affect my living if they start to garnish wages or seize my bank funding at this time. It’s a difficult time of year and it’s been a difficult situation dealing with the hurt that comes along with cancer and families especially managing through the holidays as we have. It’s a new year and I hope to be as productive as possible.  I’m requesting assistance with the bill attached. I’m truly working at getting my life on track after the things that plagued my family this year and pray for blessings and love for everyone.

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I have exhausted all avenues for care here in Alaska  I am trying to raise money so I can go to the Cleveland Clinic. Once I am seen there hopefully they will have some doctors or treatments. October of 2016 my life changed for what looks like forever now. I was at work at a High School in the special education department as a teaching assistant, in my last year to get my master’s degree in special education for kids that have behavioral problems. I was happy pursing my dream. Then that day happened. I had never felt this feeling. I had pressure in my chest, shaking, almost gasping. Then it started to feel like I was being choked out and I could not see because of the tunnel vision. I collapsed. I had iust had my first anaphylactic reaction. While there are so many layers and incidents that have happened since the first time, I will keep this short and if you would ever like to hear the whole story. I am open. It is a doozy: it leaves every person I have ever told flabbergasted

Back to 2016. The only difference that happened that day was someone brought in a dog and all her puppies. I had a slight allergy I thought. I was injected with epi and swept away via EMS to hospital, not just once but three times. This is the golden ticket to an ICU stay. Anything over three epinephrine is an ICU stay. This happened two more times and then 1 had to quit my job for safety reasons. I have had reactions at every workplace since. You are still a little bit confused, what caused the anaphylaxis. Dogs.

Does caused it. I am allergic to dogs, dander, fur, hair saliva. I do not have to be in the presence, just be on a person, in a small, enclosed space. Within minutes anaphylaxis and I am getting iniection after injection. I lose consciousness.

Since that day I have had thirteen anaplastic reactions. Yes, 13 ICU stays, 12 EMS rides, my last reaction it took seven epis to get four miles to the hospital. Now, these are situations before EMS and hospital arrival. So, who is injecting me and giving me air? My husband, and my two teenage children. They are first to react and have saved my life so many times.

The past five years have been brutal. Doctors throughout diagnosis and medication because they have no idea. I am passed from provider to provider. Over 150 medication changes, at least twenty doctors Then my last hope on this one provider, called me at 9:30PM in April of 2021. She found something! I have what is called Selective Immunoglobin M and G with all subclasses, it is extremely rare. My body is in a full-on revolt against itself. On top of SIGM, I have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Ehlers Danlos, Celiac disease, severe fibromyalgia, along with others. I have good days and bad days. I have flair ups often and am having to take medication that makes it impossible sometimes to even get out of bed for days. This includes food sensitivities, one day I will have an allergic reaction to certain foods mangos, apple, meat) and a week or so later I am fine to consume. The only constant is canines. Certain breads are worse than others

In March of 2021 I was in a car accident. I went to the ER twice; I was given a chest Xray the first time and an ultrasound the second (to which the DR wrote the results of my US as a CT and I had to argue with my PC that I had not had a CT. The attending ER nurse told me I did this to myself; I am a junkie). Finally, after two months a CT was done, I had a dual spinal fracture on my L5-S1 and a 3mm slipped disc. I needed surgery quickly. I had surgery with OPA in June. I have a hiatal hernia now and my liver is enlarged still and above my diaphragm. It still is almost unbearable.

One year ago, I began Immunoglobin Infusion Therapy ($15,000). One time a month I go into Anchorage and get my infusion. I am there for three hours. This last month the DR added another medication (Xolair $34,000) and it is injected to my belly, and I am there for two hours. The cost of these medication is obscene, and I need them every month for the rest of my life if it works. On top of the dailv medication. I must take. All treatments, visits, and medications are in the hundreds of thousands, and this is just my medication care, my children and hubs need care as well

Since 2016 when this journey has begun, we have been on a financial roller coaster. I am unable to work and still waiting on Social Security (been over a year) and that really made us take a huge hit financially We took out a $40.000 escrow loans for medical visits and treatments. We have maxed out all credit cards $25,000, $8,000, $500, $6000, $1000. We even have had to apply for more cards just to pay for services or they will not see me. The medical care prices in Alaska make it impossible to get ahead because once you get sick then you are pulled under for your debt and they do not work with you.

Matsu Regional put a lien on my home for medical bills. On top of those bills we have our normal bills; house, utility, gas, food, phones ect..

In addition to all this we have been granted custody of my teenage niece  she fled her home for safely  from illicit substances. She will be with us until she is an adult

Please help. My family is begging for help. We need the patience and understanding from a business that understands when patients are sinking but need care. We are trying so hard to pay everything, but we cannot.

Thank you for your time. Please consider my family for financial hardship.