Becca's Cancer Battle
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Hello. My name is Ashes, and I have had the fortune of growing up with an amazing warrioress of a sister. Her name is Rebecca, but we call her Becca.
(Becca and I when I was 16. We had just been roughhousing, and then I turned on the ultimate weapon- I got mushy and hugged her, while someone was equipped with a camera. Becca doesn't do getting caught with her feels showing, lol)
She has taught me so much that has been so fundamental to me surviving as person- I really would not be here if it weren't for her. At ten years older than me she has done everything in her power to make sure I had all I needed as a child, one of the most caring shoulders in the world as a teenager, and on more than one occasion a roof to live under as I got my feet back under me from countless mistakes and fumbles I had trying to learn how to fly as an adult. She has never been able to watch anyone suffer or be unhappy, and has gone so far as to pawn her jewelery just to be able to put food in someone's stomach and maybe buy then something small to cheer them up. No person I have ever known has been so self sacraficing. No person I have ever known has lived more trully by "You can't handle it? It's ok. I'm here and I can". She is one of my best friends, and one of the few people I known who has made it so clear that it's ok to be who I am, and that I am loved.
She is an amazing mom, to my wonderful neice Vanessa,
(Vanessa and their kitten)
(Throw back to when Vanessa was a wide eyed with wonder little one, and Nick and Becca were just begining their journey as parents)
and the loving wife of my brother in law Nick. She is the glue that holds their world (and mine!) together. She was holding down two jobs until in the last month she was diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian, Uterine, and Cervical Cancer.
It was mostly asymptomatic until she suddenly got sick and finally went to see an ER. They ran some tests, and immeadiately hospitalized her after a biopsy hemmoraged. She has spent nearly three weeks total in and out of the hospital this far. She has had two rounds of Chemotherapy, with the next round coming up in about a week. Doctors are hopeful that this round (or the one immeadiately following it) will shrink the tumor enough to remove it entirely. She is in the hospital right now, since on Sunday (November 27, 2016) her white blood cell counts dropped to zero.
This monster that she is battling has cost her a job. It cost her the ability to celebrate her favorite holiday (Thanksgiving- She loves to feed people and cooks like nobodies business!!!). It has taken her away from spending time with her daughter, and has more than doubled the pressure on her husband (He just got a new job earlier this year, after some of his own health related set backs) They were already struggling before this came along, and this has only served to completely pull the rug out from under them.
This money will be used to pay for Becca's exsisting medical debt, future surgery, and to help insure she has a roof to come home to. It will help to insure herself and her family eat, and have the basic's to continue supporting her fight. If anything extra is achieved it will go to others in need of medical care. Chemotherapy starts at $7,000. An average day in the hospital starts around $1,500, as you can imagine, the costs related to this battle have had a immeadiate snowballing effect.
The more immeadiately we can start tackling these bills the more effective treatment we can maintain, and the better chance she has. Not only to open up some treatment options, but to also ease the load of stress on her, and her family's shoulders. My sister is the kind of person who will give you the shirt off her back, and the food in her fridge, but won't ask for help when she needs it because she doesn't want to burden anyone. Well, she knows we need her- she is finally allowing me to do this for her.
Please, anything you can send this way will help- even if it's just the change from your couch. I still need my sister, her daughter and her husband still need her, the world still needs Becca. These are such simple words, and they are not enough to do this amazing woman justice. If we had more Becca's in this world, the world would be so much better of a place. Don't let us lose this one that we have. Even if you can't help finacially, please share this so that others might.
Everything you can do will be so appreciated. It's appreciated that you took the time to read this story. I am humbled to even think about such a thing as this exsisting- It gives me a little more hope for my sister. In a world where we are so shut off from everyone, it's incredible to think that other people might open their hearts to make someone whole, and feel at home like my sister does. Thank you.
(Becca and I when I was 16. We had just been roughhousing, and then I turned on the ultimate weapon- I got mushy and hugged her, while someone was equipped with a camera. Becca doesn't do getting caught with her feels showing, lol)
She has taught me so much that has been so fundamental to me surviving as person- I really would not be here if it weren't for her. At ten years older than me she has done everything in her power to make sure I had all I needed as a child, one of the most caring shoulders in the world as a teenager, and on more than one occasion a roof to live under as I got my feet back under me from countless mistakes and fumbles I had trying to learn how to fly as an adult. She has never been able to watch anyone suffer or be unhappy, and has gone so far as to pawn her jewelery just to be able to put food in someone's stomach and maybe buy then something small to cheer them up. No person I have ever known has been so self sacraficing. No person I have ever known has lived more trully by "You can't handle it? It's ok. I'm here and I can". She is one of my best friends, and one of the few people I known who has made it so clear that it's ok to be who I am, and that I am loved.
She is an amazing mom, to my wonderful neice Vanessa,
(Vanessa and their kitten)
(Throw back to when Vanessa was a wide eyed with wonder little one, and Nick and Becca were just begining their journey as parents)
and the loving wife of my brother in law Nick. She is the glue that holds their world (and mine!) together. She was holding down two jobs until in the last month she was diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian, Uterine, and Cervical Cancer.
It was mostly asymptomatic until she suddenly got sick and finally went to see an ER. They ran some tests, and immeadiately hospitalized her after a biopsy hemmoraged. She has spent nearly three weeks total in and out of the hospital this far. She has had two rounds of Chemotherapy, with the next round coming up in about a week. Doctors are hopeful that this round (or the one immeadiately following it) will shrink the tumor enough to remove it entirely. She is in the hospital right now, since on Sunday (November 27, 2016) her white blood cell counts dropped to zero.
This monster that she is battling has cost her a job. It cost her the ability to celebrate her favorite holiday (Thanksgiving- She loves to feed people and cooks like nobodies business!!!). It has taken her away from spending time with her daughter, and has more than doubled the pressure on her husband (He just got a new job earlier this year, after some of his own health related set backs) They were already struggling before this came along, and this has only served to completely pull the rug out from under them.
This money will be used to pay for Becca's exsisting medical debt, future surgery, and to help insure she has a roof to come home to. It will help to insure herself and her family eat, and have the basic's to continue supporting her fight. If anything extra is achieved it will go to others in need of medical care. Chemotherapy starts at $7,000. An average day in the hospital starts around $1,500, as you can imagine, the costs related to this battle have had a immeadiate snowballing effect.
The more immeadiately we can start tackling these bills the more effective treatment we can maintain, and the better chance she has. Not only to open up some treatment options, but to also ease the load of stress on her, and her family's shoulders. My sister is the kind of person who will give you the shirt off her back, and the food in her fridge, but won't ask for help when she needs it because she doesn't want to burden anyone. Well, she knows we need her- she is finally allowing me to do this for her.
Please, anything you can send this way will help- even if it's just the change from your couch. I still need my sister, her daughter and her husband still need her, the world still needs Becca. These are such simple words, and they are not enough to do this amazing woman justice. If we had more Becca's in this world, the world would be so much better of a place. Don't let us lose this one that we have. Even if you can't help finacially, please share this so that others might.
Everything you can do will be so appreciated. It's appreciated that you took the time to read this story. I am humbled to even think about such a thing as this exsisting- It gives me a little more hope for my sister. In a world where we are so shut off from everyone, it's incredible to think that other people might open their hearts to make someone whole, and feel at home like my sister does. Thank you.
Organizer and beneficiary
Ashes Ellis
Organizer
Norfolk, VA
Rebecca Duval
Beneficiary