Love for Amy

We have set up this fund to assist Amy and her beautiful children financially so she can focus on kicking this disease right out of her life.

The below is written by Amy:

Of all the things I prayed to follow me into 2023, this was not one of them.

On Monday morning, after going to the ER for coughing up blood, I was given the news I wasn't expecting. My cancer had come back. This time in the size of a peach in my lung. After being admitted, it has been nothing but chaos of going from test, to scan, to one procedure after another to get me ready for this next battle. While we are waiting for the biopsy to confirm the type of cancer it is, bc there is a small chance it could be a brand new cancer, it is believed it is the same from last year. Leiomyosarcoma.

Full transparency...the odds are not in my favor. If I do nothing, I have about 2 months. If chemo kind of works, I'm looking at about a year. Even if it works to its full potential, it will never clear my body of this disease, and it will only give me 2-3 years. There is a 34% chance that treatment will work. But that's not zero. And it's 32% better odds than my dad got to live past 2 months..and he gave us 18 while defying all odds and beating stage 4 pancreatic cancer, only to succumb to a sepsis infection from a procedure. While it would appear that cancer is in our DNA...it also appears that so is beating the odds and defying the percentages. I don't know if this battle is meant to be won, but I do know I won't go down without a fight.

The port went in early this morning, and the heaviness of my reality finally set in. I feel people do 1 of 3 things when faced with critical circumstances. They either succumb, fight or accept. As it turns out, I am collectively and simultaneously doing all 3. I have surrendered what I can't control over to God, while accepting that my only option is to fight a war I never asked for.

I am just asking you to please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as Day 1 begins. And to also keep my kids in your prayers as well. They know that I have cancer, but they do not know the odds of failure. Only that I am doing everything I can to BEAT THIS.

2023...you can put this in your juice box and SUCK IT.

Leiomyosarcoma...I'm coming for you.