Help Casandra through cancer recovery

Hi everyone,

Our fierce, immensely talented, and loyal friend Casandra Corrales-Brupbacher has been involved in a very long health journey that has most recently culminated in a cancer diagnosis.

What began as a discovery of uterine fibroids back in the late summer of 2020, evolved into endless delays in receiving the proper medical attention and care she needed. Many negligent doctors dismissed her problems. This led to multiple ER stints, emergency blood transfusions, an exhausting number of failed treatments that caused further detriment to her health and livelihood, and due to becoming highly anemic she has not been able to fully participate in her work and life. She is finally – and thankfully – under the care and support of the right medical team.

After a procedure that removed her uterine fibroid in early August of this year, which doctors believed would rid her of the extremely heavy and constant bleeding and agony, Cas was informed by her doctors that they had found an extremely rare cancer, that goes by the name of STUMP. Smoothe Tumor of Uncertain Malignant Potential. The only real treatment now is a full hysterectomy. Her surgery date is this October 25th which will be followed by another extended period of healing and no work. She will forever have to be monitored by the doctors but hopefully getting this hysterectomy will finally allow our girl to move on from this chapter, Cancer Free!

Throughout all of this, Cas has been and continues to be very private about these issues, sharing only with her closest associates and has been managing a majority of this struggle by herself, all while still finding the strength to support others over the last two years. She has co-founded a dance krewe that supports not only it’s members but also the New Orleans community, caring and nurturing her clientele at the salon, and even going above and beyond to care for her own friends and family during their hard moments. This is the friend who always has your back. Her determination has superseded all of this. With that said, this has greatly impacted her physicality and ability to work consistently for quite a while.

Here’s where we get to step up and be the community for Cas that she has been for so many of us! Cancer absolutely sucks, as does having to tirelessly advocate for yourself in a system that often dismisses women’s health issues. After her procedure in October, she will need several weeks of recovery, this means once again not being able to do her job, and that’s on top of all of the missed work prior to now.

This process has been very taxing on Cas, and also her husband Bailey, both of whom have remained very private about the process to this point, sharing their burden with very few and carrying the load with grace. It took a lot of convincing to convince them to accept this help! Her extremely supportive and loving husband, Bailey, has stepped up in ways that one could only hope, working twice as hard to keep both of them afloat but who is certainly also starting to feel the struggles and stressors as well. As many of us well know that extensive medical bills, regular bills, everyday household expenses, all add up quickly.

If you can chip in any amount and also spread news of this page, we know her gratitude will be beyond words, so let’s love on her and show her she can lean on us, like she has and will continue to do for so many of us! Thank you SO MUCH for your consideration and supporting our friend!

Learn more about STUMP here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5650001/