Help Support #MindyStrong Beat Cancer GVHD
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We ask for any help and assistance you possibly can for a family in dire need.
It hard to put into words what they have been through, but we will do our best to provide clarity to the degree of perseverance and strength of spirit they have shown.
Our family, specifically our sister, Angi, has been through so many trials, tribulations and difficulties.
Our niece, her daughter, Mindy, was diagnosed with a very rare form of leukemia / cancer, called GVHD, 4 years ago.
There is no cure, and most doctors do not know how to treat it, often resulting in inaccurate treatment methods, which allows for the continued deterioration of Mindy's fragile body.
As a result of the cancer continuing to attack her body, she is now blind, while it slowly works itself throughout the remainder of her body and teeth.
Two weeks ago, we got the call that has shaken us to our core. This call informed us that Mindy had been rushed to Baylor Scott & White T. Boone Pickens Cancer Center, being placed on life support.
As any of us would have done for our child, our sister, Angi, Mindy's mother, flew in from Utah immediately, while Mindy's two sisters flew in from Florida and Las Vegas.
Cancer has impacted so many lives, and continues its attacks with no regard for its casualties. The cancer has started attacking her lungs to the point of her being unable to breath on her own.
Through prayer and faith, our sister, Angi, made the nearly impossible decision as a mother to take her off life support, as well as a surgery to place a tube in her throat (tracheostomy) to help her breath. While these decisions made some progress, Mindy is blind as well as being unable to speak or eat.
Mindy has a 5 year old little boy, a boy that truly is her whole world. This innocent child cannot understand why Mommie cannot see the pictures that he has colored for her, watch TV with him or read him goodnight stories again.
Through God's grace, these surgeries and difficult decisions showed the power that healing can bring, as Mindy was removed from life support, gaining more strength with each passing day.
Words cannot describe the degree of thankfulness we have for this healing, and just as things were looking upward, this family was hit with tragedy yet again, just two days later.
While at the hospital, tending to Mindy post-surgery, Angi gets a startling call from her neighbors in Utah, that her house, the place of immeasurable family keepsakes, is burning to the ground.... There has been an investigation into the fire, however, thus far, the cause is still undetermined.
This family has been met with tragedy after tragedy, all while maintaining positivity, and using these situations as a way to draw closer versus be broken apart.
We ask, crying out from the bottom of our hearts, to your hearts, to help them in any way that you can. No help is too small for family going through so much.
Be that true warrior and Angel here on earth and help lend a hand by giving today!! Thank you all for your love, support, help, and prayers!!! God Bless each and everyone of you!!
Organizer and beneficiary
Holli Carter
Organizer
Lantana, TX
Angi Ellis
Beneficiary