Help with cancer bills
THE PHOTO is from 2 years ago at Easter. Cancer has a way of changing everything.
I have always been pretty medically healthy. and am 62. I could always wait out any medical problem because they would resolve themselves. 6 months ago i started feeling weak. People told me i looked pale
and bad. i didn't think much of i and they were over reacting. When i
took breaths, i could not get enough oxygen to my lungs.
My lungs kept getting worse. About 4 month ago, my lung capacity
deteriorated inability to moving from my bed to the bedroom door.
Finally someone told me i HAVE to go to the doctor. So i did.
First thing, he wanted to direct admit me to the hospital. I said no,
i'll think about it. I think people are sometimes overly reactive--and i just want to wait and see. By the time i got home from the Dr.'s his staff and the hospital called 3 times to tell me i needed to come to the hospital
that night--as a direct admit. The hospital was waiting. I said i'll come
tomorrow. so i did.
When the nurse showed me my room i was very compromised . They took bloods and the results were that i was 60% out of blood which is why i could not breathe. Blood carries oxygen and i didn't have blood. They infused 5 units of blood in the next few hours, and i was put "first scheduled" for the diagnostic team the next morning. They did a full body MRI. The MRI identified "urgently suspicious" for bowel cancer. Biopsy identified it was between late 3 and close to stages 4 .
Doctors identified a 2nd bad site but put that on hold because of the progress of the first cancer. After 8 hours of surgery The doctors first
wanted a second site surgery the next day-but said my body could not manage I was in the hospital for 11 days. That's longer than any
vacation i ever took.
I was discharged with an oncology follow up the next week. This was all surreal, so i'm :" yeah whatever." Clueless to the whole picture. This all came out of NO-where. I've been the healthy one...
My medical bills are all in collection, and i have no money to pay. I was barely scraping by when i was well. If there is anyway, you can please
help me pay the bills God bless you. I have further testing on the progress of the first site, and now on the second site on Tuesday(8/14) and see the oncologist the following week. Don't know what is going on with my chest area. Everything i eat i throw it right back up. Not pretty.
I drink the walmart brand of high protein meal replacement.
GOFUNDME is my last hope to pay all the bills. i would
so very much appreciate your support. May the Lord's Hand rest in
peace on all of us. Thank you for any contributions and prayers. I never saw this coming. love, maureen