Still in Chemotherapy and now homeless

 Update

I am so frustrated, what’s the point of going to the doctors, going to chemotherapy nonstop, and being in financial toxicity when I can’t afford to live now that cancer has taken all my savings, my assets, my ability to work, and destroyed my credit .

If I had known all the ripple effects that would result from having any Stage cancer, I would have approached things differently in the beginning in August of 2022.

Older Update below:

I'm reaching out today to share my story. I'm battling Metastatic Breast Cancer and the journey has been tough. I'm facing chemotherapy for the rest of my life, and the additional expenses that are not covered by insurance are starting to pile up. I've already spent well over $10,000 on travel for treatments and tests. I'm fighting not just for myself, but for my family. I've been through a lot, but I'm determined to keep going. I'm asking for your help to lighten this burden. Please consider donating to my GoFundMe campaign and sharing it with others. Your support means the world to me. Thank you.

Dealing with it…

Dealing with the fact that I will continue to receive chemotherapy for the rest of my life to extend my life. 

To face the reality of what will eventually kill you overtime, is a difficult concept to deal with.

 

NOT HAPPY 

It just keeps getting worse… Read test results, (Bone Scan taken 10-14-22) today October 16, 2022, lucent bone metastases noted at T3, T8, T10, L1, L2 and S1. No pathological fracture.

October 13, I had to drive to West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh from Somerset, I had an echocardiogram, then , I went to Monroeville to have a radiation injection to do a bone scan, but the technician canceled my appointment and no one told me until I arrived. This is the second time this has happened at the same place. This is the first time I cried. 

October 14, I arrived at UPMC by 8am in Monroeville and finally got the radiation injection to do the bone scan, I finally left the hospital at 2pm. To then. Drive to Harmarville to have two cortisol injections in each hip. 

October 6, I fired my medical and surgical oncologists after getting a new team (medical and surgical oncologists) to oversee my treatment plan, my well-being and care on October 4th and 5th appointments.

Tests completed on September 21, 2022 of Lymph Node in .

I have yet to receive any medical bills, I am waiting for the medical bills to bombard me into shock.

I am worried about expenses and bills all relating to having Stage 4 cancer, now diagnosed as treatable to extend my life, but incurable. 

Please read my story below. 

Thank you.

About me, Christy

In 1998, I was driving home from a bridal shower and I had an auto-accident where a 17’ radius Boulder fall from a cliff along the highway. The Boulder didn’t hit me, but the impact o the rock made in truck flip over and I rolled 3x, 250’ in the median. 

I woke up 4 days later with a halo screwed into my scull, over 200 stitches on my forehead, 27 staples around my head, I had my ear sewn back into place, and I had a brain swelling bag. I spent the next 4 months basically in bed. I could not walk, I suffered from 98% muscle atrophy- I couldn’t even carry my own body weight. I spent the next 11 months, 5 hours a day, 3 times a week going to physical and cognitive rehabilitation. 

I have a severe TBI, Trigeminal neuralgia, and I suffer from chronic pain. I thought I already had fought the battle for my life in 1998/1999 and now exactly almost to the day 24 years later on August 29, 2022 I received a phone call.

I was in a hotel room in Rogersville, TN and a doctor (who I didn’t know) told me I had breast cancer. I was all alone in that room and I cried for myself.

I couldn’t call my mom, she passed away on Dec 4, 2021, and I literally just dropped off my daughter in Washington DC at American University on August 27. I couldn’t tell my daughter either, because she is still mourning from the death of her Grandmother and is suffering from separation anxiety leaving home.

Here I am again, getting ready for another war internalized within my own body. 

I don’t think it is very fair and I was yelling at GOD for allowing this to happen to me. I believe I have suffered enough and I have watched everyone else’s lives move by and I just remained idle.. 

To win this war, I will prevail even if my body gives out because, I knowI never quit or just gave up like I could have done 24 years ago”.

Diagnosis’ 

INVASIVE DUCTAL

CARCINOMA, GRADE 3 OF 3 AND DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU, HIGH NUCLEAR

GRADE, SOLID PATTERN WITH COMEDONECROSIS AND CALCIFICATIONS

(Nottingham grade 3, ER negative, PR/HER-2 new positive).

I will gladly provide any documentation to provide authenticity. Just ask me in the supporting comments section and I will happily provide any information you need. 

Treatment:

Chemotherapy;

Surgery; and 

Radiation Therapy.

Chemotherapy could last through April 2023 or even for the rest of my Life. 

Expenses out of pocket to date just for traveling to the doctors and hospital visits for tests is now well over $3000.00  

Somerset To Pittsburgh almost Daily now with weekends off. Lol. it is now a job. 

Travel expenses began at the end of July 2022.