Jaymie's support circle
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The last few years of our friend's life have been extremely challenging. She has faced obstacle after obstacle and continued on with a smile on her face...determined to get back to life as usual.
On December 4, 2014, she fell from 30 feet at the climbing gym and broke both her feet and her back and was in a wheelchair or on crutches, enduring major surgery and hospital stays for most of the year. Midway through the year, she got the news that she had inherited the BRCA1 gene that had created cancer in most of her mother's family for years, yet she assumed her healthy lifestyle would protect her.
But on December 2, 2014 her life changed forever. She was diagnosed with breast cancer - Triple Negative invasive ductal carcinoma, Stage 1b, Grade 3 - a small, but very aggressive and fast-growing cancer. She had a double mastectomy and reconstruction. She was told that the surgeon got "clean margins" and that there were only a few cells in her lymph nodes, so no actual metastasis. She continued to live a very healthy lifestyle of yoga, meditation, healthy food and lifestyle, anti-cancer IVs, Rife machine treatments, and many other natural anti-cancer therapies.
In late January she had clean MRI scans and great bloodwork. Then in late March, she came down with a nasty flu that progressed to walking pneumonia. For 5 straight months she's had a terrible cough and been unable to breathe. I've watched her struggle to get well, doing every Western and alternative therapy that should have healed her. BUT after all these months of believing that she would just someday be well, she was shocked to find out that the breast cancer had metastasized to the lymph nodes in her chest and her lungs when she went in for follow-up scans. She now has a diagnosis of STAGE IV BREAST CANCER, one of the scariest diagnoses anyone ever has to face.
Western medicine says that this is an incurable and terminal diagnosis. They are limited still by the very few treatments that they have for Stage IV cancer and VERY little research money goes into Stage IV because those patients are deemed incurable. But there are many treatments throughout the world that do cure some and sometimes put people into remission for long periods of time. Jaymie has been studying these things for years...hoping to help her friends and family members if it ever came to that. She never expected it would be her who's life she would be fighting for. But life throws you curveballs sometimes......
Jaymie has 2 little girls that are her entire world and need her desperately to be here for them as long as she possibly can. There is nothing she wants more than to take this away from them and give them the carefree lives that little children should have.
On December 4, 2014, she fell from 30 feet at the climbing gym and broke both her feet and her back and was in a wheelchair or on crutches, enduring major surgery and hospital stays for most of the year. Midway through the year, she got the news that she had inherited the BRCA1 gene that had created cancer in most of her mother's family for years, yet she assumed her healthy lifestyle would protect her.
But on December 2, 2014 her life changed forever. She was diagnosed with breast cancer - Triple Negative invasive ductal carcinoma, Stage 1b, Grade 3 - a small, but very aggressive and fast-growing cancer. She had a double mastectomy and reconstruction. She was told that the surgeon got "clean margins" and that there were only a few cells in her lymph nodes, so no actual metastasis. She continued to live a very healthy lifestyle of yoga, meditation, healthy food and lifestyle, anti-cancer IVs, Rife machine treatments, and many other natural anti-cancer therapies.
In late January she had clean MRI scans and great bloodwork. Then in late March, she came down with a nasty flu that progressed to walking pneumonia. For 5 straight months she's had a terrible cough and been unable to breathe. I've watched her struggle to get well, doing every Western and alternative therapy that should have healed her. BUT after all these months of believing that she would just someday be well, she was shocked to find out that the breast cancer had metastasized to the lymph nodes in her chest and her lungs when she went in for follow-up scans. She now has a diagnosis of STAGE IV BREAST CANCER, one of the scariest diagnoses anyone ever has to face.
Western medicine says that this is an incurable and terminal diagnosis. They are limited still by the very few treatments that they have for Stage IV cancer and VERY little research money goes into Stage IV because those patients are deemed incurable. But there are many treatments throughout the world that do cure some and sometimes put people into remission for long periods of time. Jaymie has been studying these things for years...hoping to help her friends and family members if it ever came to that. She never expected it would be her who's life she would be fighting for. But life throws you curveballs sometimes......
Jaymie has 2 little girls that are her entire world and need her desperately to be here for them as long as she possibly can. There is nothing she wants more than to take this away from them and give them the carefree lives that little children should have.
Organizer and beneficiary
amy brenner
Organizer
Albuquerque, NM
Jaymie Hettler
Beneficiary