Kore's Run for Life
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Kore’s Story
In May of 2012 I was 34 years old, a mother of two very young children, and a nursing student. I found a star-shaped bruise on my left breast. I brushed off the worry and went about my merry way - young women don't have serious breast problems. Especially in-shape runners who had just stopped breast feeding. I ran the Lucky 7K race,y breast star became an angry red rash. I took my Nursing Funds final. My rash developed a lump under it. So I called my PCP. She rushed me to a surgeon who took a bunch of biopsies. I got the news the next day - I had stage IIIB Inflammatory Breast Cancer. It was bad. I had a port in place and was receiving chemotherapy within a week.
My chemo treatment held me until this December, almost three years, when I had my first seizure. The CT found one 2 cm lesion in my brain - untreatable with surgery, but definitely with Novalis (focused x-ray treatment) My Novalis treatment was awful. It made my seizures worse, which inexplicably gave me double vision. I spent weeks in the hospital with 10/10 pain. I was too weak to walk even use a walker. Then my neurologist did a lumbar puncture and found free-floating cancer cells. This is probably the worst diagnosis a person with cancer can get. It's official name is carcinomatous meningitis. It is swift and deadly. I will not live to see my next birthday. My sweet oncologist wants to give me the best quality of life while he can.
Due to extreme medical expenses our family is doing this fundraiser to assist our niece with these expenses. Recently, CSF test for cancer cells still shows the presences of cancer. Again, she is braving the radiation treatments and ongoing chemo treatments.
Also, Kore has been posting blogs on caringbridge.org "Kore Bormann"
From our Ohana (family) to yours Mahalo Nui Loa (Thank you very much)
In May of 2012 I was 34 years old, a mother of two very young children, and a nursing student. I found a star-shaped bruise on my left breast. I brushed off the worry and went about my merry way - young women don't have serious breast problems. Especially in-shape runners who had just stopped breast feeding. I ran the Lucky 7K race,y breast star became an angry red rash. I took my Nursing Funds final. My rash developed a lump under it. So I called my PCP. She rushed me to a surgeon who took a bunch of biopsies. I got the news the next day - I had stage IIIB Inflammatory Breast Cancer. It was bad. I had a port in place and was receiving chemotherapy within a week.
My chemo treatment held me until this December, almost three years, when I had my first seizure. The CT found one 2 cm lesion in my brain - untreatable with surgery, but definitely with Novalis (focused x-ray treatment) My Novalis treatment was awful. It made my seizures worse, which inexplicably gave me double vision. I spent weeks in the hospital with 10/10 pain. I was too weak to walk even use a walker. Then my neurologist did a lumbar puncture and found free-floating cancer cells. This is probably the worst diagnosis a person with cancer can get. It's official name is carcinomatous meningitis. It is swift and deadly. I will not live to see my next birthday. My sweet oncologist wants to give me the best quality of life while he can.
Due to extreme medical expenses our family is doing this fundraiser to assist our niece with these expenses. Recently, CSF test for cancer cells still shows the presences of cancer. Again, she is braving the radiation treatments and ongoing chemo treatments.
Also, Kore has been posting blogs on caringbridge.org "Kore Bormann"
From our Ohana (family) to yours Mahalo Nui Loa (Thank you very much)
Organizer and beneficiary
Val Rip Monge Gourley
Organizer
Brighton, CO
Andrew Bormann
Beneficiary