I just got off the phone with Christy. She was in tears. This is why.
She has a large, painful lump in her breast. Actually, two of them. And swollen, painful lymph nodes in her armpit. Her doctor has told her that she has advanced breast cancer. She was scheduled for a pre-op tomorrow and a lumpectomy (which I'm appalled by - this should be a radical double mastectomy, IMHO) next Monday.
She called today to see if she should come to the clinic fasting for blood tests or anything. Turns out, she has to give them $6,000 *up front* for the pre-op (and they cut that in half for her because she has NO money), and another $14,000 *up front* for the surgery itself. No one had told her any of this!
So the surgery is off, and the cancer continues to grow and spread.
Does anyone know of a hospital and physician who would be willing to do the surgery pro-bono? Anywhere? Maybe we could take up a collection for airline tickets if she can find that type of help.
I'm not sure if we could ever gather $20,000 together if that's not possible, but there *are* a lot of us. I have Christy and TFM's home address and TFM's PayPal address from another time. If anyone can help, pleast contact me, and I'll pbutt that information along to you.
Honestly, if I had enough equity in my house, i'd sell it right now and give her the money. But I don't, so I can't. This post is really the only thing I can do besides pray more often. People are praying for her, lighting pink candles for her, probably doing all kinds of things I don't understand, all on her behalf. If there's anything you can do ....
Thank you.
