Help Char while she kicks cancer!

Let's rally together to help Char pay her bills while she kicks cancer! Char had a regular PET scan to ensure she was still cancer-free in March. She received the dreaded call that the cancer was back, and this time it had shown up in three spots. She was referred to the Mayo Clinic, where after weeks of testing and many trips back and forth, it was confirmed the cancer was found in her scapula bone, more spots in her neck, and a questionable spot on her pelvic bone. The ortho oncology radiology Dr. told her that they usually break the radiation into three treatments. However, because it metastasized in her bone, they wanted to hit it hard with one dose of full-strength radiation. After more appointments at Mayo and trial runs, they performed her radiation treatment on May 2nd.  Char will go back to the Mayo in 2 months to repeat the PET scan and work with her doctors to figure out her next steps to beating this. 

 

While going through radiation and because of the insane amount of pain the large dose of radiation caused, Char hasn't been able to work at the hospital, where she has been giving her love and attention to very ill babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Char has been known to pick up many extra shifts as a frontline worker during COVID to help financially support her family. Char is a single mother of 2 wonderful kids! Her daughter is an 8th grader at Monticello Middle School and loves soccer, fishing, hunting, and other outdoor activities. Her son is attending college in St Cloud for Biochemical Engineering while working here in Monticello.

 

Char is one of the strongest women I know!! She will kick this! Char has always been there to help her friends. Now it is our turn to be there to help alleviate some of the stress these medical expenses are putting on their family. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!