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Ronda Bivens Fight For Survival
This is a new campaign for Ronda Bivens. The cancer has gotten much much worse, We are trying to raise money for her and her family so they can worry about Ronda getting better and making it through this instead of that and how they are going to make it financially every day. Here is her story up to this point.
"In February of 2016. I got the worst call of my life. The Dr who had done the biopsy on my ankle discoverd that it was Cancer. Through many tears and much discussion, my treatment plan at that time was to do radiation to the tumor. I painfully did 3 or 4 weeks of radiation to my foot, but I could tell it was just getting worse and it was getting bigger. All I kept thinking was that they need to take it out as soon as they can. That next time I went back to the doctor, they wanted to preform a scan of my whole body to make sure the cancer hadn't spread. When the doctor came back in with the results, she told us more bad news, the Cancer had spread to my lungs and we need to amputate your leg and start aggressive chemotherapy to combat the spread and growth any further. We were devastated. So just a couple of days later on May 6th I had my leg amputated and healed for 3 weeks and started chemo. It was so awful. I did 5 months and I don't know how I made it through. I seriously thought that I would die if I didn't stop. So I refused to do anymore because it wasn't doing anything. Shortly after chemo I developed pneumonia in my left lung, which I still have to this day, 8 months later. I just spent the whole month of march in the hospital. During my stay, I received more bad news. After further scans they found tumors growing in my airways, they are 50% blocked and that's why they think the pneumonia wasn't going away. They burnt the tumors off as best as they could but said it will continue to grow back and gave me a few options like getting a stint put in my airway that way the tumors will just grow around instead of blocking my airway. After being at Blount for what felt like forever I wanted to be transported to Vanderbilt in Nashville. I get there and they shoot me straight right away. The antibiotics are not working so I need to do radiation to try to shrink the mass and hopefully get rid of the pneumonia. Then I need to start the chemo pill to try to keep the Cancer from growing anymore...... hopefully. And if I don't do that then I need to call in hospice because I will die soon otherwise. So just like every ounce of news we have received year, more bad news. I'm terrified, I thought and prayed this would go differently. I miss my babies, i miss everything about life before cancer crept in and took over everything. As you can imagine Matt will have to take time off work again so he can drive me to Nashville for treatment and take care of me. This is so hard, everyday of chemo before was backed by the worry of how we were going to make it another week, how we would keep the house, how we could feed our children. I am dreadfully terrified of another possible 5 months of not remembering days at a time, another possible 5 months of pain, sickness, worry and missing my babies. Thank you for taking time out of your day to read my story and for everything everyone has already done and given, I can not explain how greatful we are for it all, but my journey is far from over."
Please find it in your hearts to give and help this wonderful woman and her family beat this terrible illness. Matt Mager, Ronda's Bivens Mager's newly wed husband will be the sole person to accept funds from this campaign to help with all expenses in life and after.