Help Frazier Fight Metastatic Breast Cancer

Please help ease the burden of metastatic breast cancer

** please read the update from January 23, 2023. Frazier now has metastatic breast cancer, and needs prayers and help to live her best life. 

We have been fighting hard and supporting our girl Frazier for the last seven months through Stage III Triple Negative Breast Cancer. But now, she needs everyone's support to make it through the rest of this fight, especially financially.

 

This financial burden is far too much for one single person to bear, even with health insurance and a supportive employer. Frazier's maximum out of pocket has been met for the year but she's still stuck with $7,000 in medical bills while supporting herself 100% on her own. She's also facing limited paid time off and two surgeries to still endure. It is not an option with her employer for disability or FMLA because her agency is too small to carry those benefits.

 

If you know Frazier, nothing will hold her back. From the start of her diagnosis she continues to fight. She would never ask but we don't want her to drown and worry about debt throughout the rest of this fight.

 

Frazier has two upcoming surgeries, first on 3/21 and second on 4/12. Following her surgeries, she will have radiation 5 days a week for 6-8 weeks. She will continue immunotherapy infusions every three weeks. And there is a high likelihood she will have to do oral chemo following radiation.

 

Frazier’s Story

On August 27, 2021, Frazier went in for a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound after finding a large lump in her right breast. The radiologist shared during the ultrasound that it was in fact breast cancer and coordinated an immediate biopsy. We soon learned that she had Stage III Triple Negative Breast Cancer, the most aggressive type of breast cancer with the poorest prognosis and highest rate of recurrence.

 

She has handled 22 weeks of chemo with optimism and pure grit. But, unfortunately, her tumor only partially responded to the chemo. Her hope of breast conserving surgery has been crushed.

 

She will have two separate surgeries due to surgical scheduling and lack of OR time available (thanks COVID).

 

Updates and more of Frazier's story are shared on her blog - www.ohihavecancer.com.

 

Please consider donating to ease Frazier’s financial burden. No one should have to suffer through cancer, but it breaks our heart to see our youngest (33) friend battle it. And please, please, please check your breasts every month, and see a medical provider if you have any concern.

 

With hearts filled with love and hope for our Frazier,

Leslie, Mary, and Virginia