Help Stephanie through her breast cancer journey

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Stephanie’s port has been placed and she’s scheduled to start chemotherapy on Tuesday.

She is currently in stage 3b, but that could change to more severe after her PET scan.

The current plan is to give her chemo treatments for 5 months, surgery (double mastectomy) and then radiation. It will be a solid year + of treatment, missing work, medical expenses, etc.

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Hi, my name is Beth Franklin and Stephanie Caruso has been my best friend for 16 years. She’s been given the unfortunate news that she has breast cancer.

Stephanie has a very long journey ahead of her with chemo, a double mastectomy, and radiation in her future. Not only is she in the beginning stages of figuring out her diagnosis and prognosis, but she’s hit a snag with finding a heart murmur, too.

As you can imagine, all of these things will take time and plenty of money. She will be out of work and trying to make ends meet with her amazing husband Dave by her side.

Please, if you can spare some extra money to help this family out and show your love and support, I would appreciate it and I know Stephanie would, too. She’s also got an Amazon wish list of things that will help her along this journey, which can be found on her Facebook page.

Stephanie and Dave never ask for help and don’t know that I’m making this for them, but I know they will greatly appreciate any bit of help that can be sent their way. Let’s all rally around them as they begin this long journey. Thank you to everyone who is able to help- whether it be financially, through her Amazon wish list, a meal, or just being there to give her a big hug. Let’s show her our love during this emotional time!!!