Doctor told her to give up Don't fight no more

JANUARY 9 UPDATE: Hi everyone, I need dental work before the doctor can give mebone strengthening shots. If I dont get them, my Face will shatter..I'm now dealing with Bone cancer nw as well and need $10000 to get through this.NO ONE WILL HELP ME WHY?

Pain meds makes it hard for me to think and All this is hard on me. ButI have God....I have God...

I'm alsobehind on hospital bills, the light bill, wifi, car

Insurance. Please donate to help me any way that you can... I'm fighting To live. TO LIVE!

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4/15/23CANCER IS A SILENT KILLER IN THE

TRANS COMMUNITY. HOW? ITS NOT SPOKEN OF.ITS NOT TAKEN AS SERIOUS

AS AIDS. WHEN I GOT DIAGNOSED WITH 3RD STAGE BREAST CANCER THERE WAS

NO OUTREACH FOR ME TO RUN TO.BECAUSE ITS NOT TALKED ABOUT YOU

DONT UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICAL PAIN IM IN.THE MENTAL SUFFERING..I LOST EVERYTHING.SUBJECTED TO BEGGING FOR HELP TO EAT AND PAY MY MEDICAL BILLS. I WAS NOT ABLE TO GO SEE A SPECIALIST BECAUSE I COULD NOT AFFORD IT. MOST OF NO ONE SEEMED TO

CARE."YES", I WAS BLESSED TO RAISE SOME

MONEY.IT ALL WENT TO BILLS.BUT I HAVE

PEOPLE QUESTIONING IS THIS REAL.REAL?

A DR.TOLD ME TO PLAN MY FUNERAL. A DR! "MY DOCTOR ",GAVE UP ON ME.MY DONORS GAVE UP ON ME.I BEGAN TO QUESTION IS MY LIFE IMPORTANT. DO I MATTER? IT TOOK ALMOST DYING TO REALIZE "YES", GOD IS REAL AND SO MY LIFE IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

PLEASE HELP ME LIVE.MOST OF ALL ,

PLEASE HELP ME LEAVE A LEGACY .

LET ME START MY OWN CANCER OUT

REACH.HELP ME SILENCE THE SILENT

KILLER BEFORE THE SCREAMS AND CRY'

S ARE TO LOUD TO HELP.YES WE HAVE AIDS

TO THINK ABOUT. BUT WE HAVE CANCER

WE HAVE COVIC AND A HOST OF OTHER THINGS LIKE ANY OTHER COMMUNITY.

If you have a mother a SISTER A BROTHER

A FAMILY MEMBER GOIN THROUGH WHAT

IM SPEAKING OF.HELP ME RAISE 2MILLION

TODAY.DONATE 500,00 THOUSAND A PIECE.DONATE TO MAKING A CHANGE.A

"DIFFERENCE ",!THIS IS NOT A GAME, IM FIGHTING TO LIVE.NOW IM FIGHTING TO

LEAVE MY NAME BEHIND BY SAVING YOU.

" CSOL"(CANCER SPEAKS OUT LOUD).......ALWAYS

TOMORROW VALENTINO

PLEASE HELP!

Emergency UPDATE: TOMORROW'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME IF SHE DOESN'T RAISE THE $60,000 FOR HER SURGERY BEFORE THE NEW YEAR'S SHE WILL HAVE PASSED AWAY BY THE TIME THE NEW YEAR'S HAVE PASSED! DON'T LET HER DIE!

Sep/10/22

When I first started this GoFundMe, I never thought I’d actually be able to fight and have hope for myself again. Battling cancer is something life cannot prepare you for, and I was scared. I saw saw everything I worked so hard for—being a black trans woman— stripped away. The treatment messed with my hormones, my hair fell out, my skin changed. I could only see myself in a coffin, not living life. And because of my unique situation involving incarceration I didn’t have access to traditional medical help and SSI, so it was huge for me to reach out to a community online that doesn’t even know me in real life and receive so much love from them and from God. This help has kept me fighting until today. If you see my pictures, you’ll notice that I am looking better. This is not because I am any less sick with the cancer, but because I have chosen to live life and fight back! And you all have helped give me that strength.

Everything that was donated to my GoFundMe so far has been used for my medical treatment at Northside Hospital. Now I’m at Emory, and I’m undergoing strenuous chemo and prescribed numerous medications. Finally, I have a team of doctors who understand my situation and who believe they can shrink the tumor enough to be able to remove it with surgery!

The hospital says if I can raise $60,000, they will cover the rest of the surgery expenses. And so I’m turning once again to my community and asking you not to give up on me. I want to be able to say I won, that I’m a winner.

Right now I’m reaching out to a lot of different talk shows because I want to go on them and be a voice. I want to let people know what I went through, from being homeless, to being incarcerated, to being sick, to people accusing me of making it all up, to some days only having God and the power of God to keep me going. But if Mike Tyson can come back and fight when everybody says he’s too old and out of shape, then Tomorrow will continue to fight when the doctors told me I had 6 months to a year to live. Those six months are up and I’m still living and fighting.

With this cancer, some days are better than others, but whether they’re up or down, my name is still Tomorrow, and so every time I close my eyes I know I’m going to see the next day. My name is Tomorrow, and there is going to be a tomorrow for me. Not just for me, but for each and every one of us that claims that for our lives. That’s a promise. 

(The Cancer: the doctor said without the surgery I only have 6 months to year to live the cancer is growing rapidly in my breast. Just because I'm trans does it mean that I should have a short life or that my life doesn't matter. Don't cry for Me I'm blessed even at this stage. If I die today I'm going to heaven. If I don't have surgery I'm going to die.

My goal is to raise money not only for my health.But to start my own out reach to help trans people with cancer. People have stopped donating and it's made me sad but I'm also thankful that I was able to pay some of my surgeries that I've had biopsies etc and I have a long journey ahead.

This year, while I was homeless, doing survival sex work, and living in and out of hotels, I received the worst news of my life. In March of this year, I ended up going to the hospital because I had trouble breathing. My trans sister called me an uber even though I was scared to go. Turns out I had COVID-19. 

While in the hospital, they gave me a CT scan and the doctor pulled me to the side and told me that a cancer specialist wanted to talk to me. They told me that something didn’t look right and they wanted to run some more tests. After being in bed for weeks with COVID, and then getting better, I woke up one morning and my breast was as big as a cantaloupe, and it was hard. I didn’t know what to do, but eventually the pain was so bad that I drove myself to the hospital.

On July 1st, doctors told me that I had stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer.

This type of cancer grows aggressively and rapidly - 80% faster than most cancers. It also has spread to my lymph nodes and my kidneys. 

I have only been approved for my medication, but don’t have insurance.I already owe the hospital over $30,000. I need to have surgery as soon as possible. The doctor has informed me that time is of the essence. The doctors said I need an emergency surgery to remove the cancer from my kidneys. 

I want to be an advocate for the girls to get checked, to get mammograms. They don’t know what their bodies are going through. I know I didn’t. I didn’t feel anything and then one day I woke up and had cancer. I am now the living witness of what can happen to us. If I can influence girls to go get tested and take care of themselves, then I would die happy. If there’s anything left over, I want to pay it forward to other Trans folks who are living with cancer and bring awareness to the community--especially regarding silicone injections.

My story:

My name is Tomorrow Valentino. I just turned 50 years old. I got my name when I was in prison. They put a guy in the hole with me. He had a bunch of tattoos, and turns out he was a Blood. He asked me my name. I told him how growing up, they would call me China because of my eyes (I’m Jamaican). He told me that he always wanted to name his daughter Tomorrow, and decided to name me that instead. I was looking out the window and saw the sun shining. I looked up at the sky and realized that the name was mine. No matter what happens in my life, there was always a “tomorrow” for me. Even with what I’m going through right now, I know there will be a tomorrow.

I left my parents’ house at 17 years old. My parents are from Jamaica. They did not understand my “lifestyle,” not at first. When I looked in the mirror, even before the breasts, I knew who I was. My mom was like, “If you don’t cut your hair, you have to get out of my house, I know I only had boys.” So I packed my stuff and left. I didn’t finish school and ended up on the streets and homeless. I had to hustle to survive, scamming, stealing. I ended up being in and out of prison. I grew up on the streets. It set me back in my transition and goals. If my parents had accepted me when I was young, I could have been anything I wanted to be.

I’ve never been that type of person who asks for help, because I’ve always done things by myself.

Growing up a Black transgender female in the 90s, we bought our hormones from the girls who already had them. We had to pay like $100 a bottle for black market hormones. There was also an underground surgery market for silicone injections. That’s what I got – aka SEAL. I got it in my breasts, hips, butt, and cheeks. What they didn’t tell us, is the effects it could have on your body. In my case, it was injected in the wrong place, and years later it all moved to one side of my breast, which caused the silicone to create a mass and triggered the cancer.

I remember when I met Verna, who did my injections. She had this huge house. When I went in, she was just studying me. When she finished my face, I was so pretty. I had high cheekbones, a pointy chin. People would look at me and say I’m striking. After that feeling of euphoria, it became addictive, it made me able to pass--or look more and more like a woman. I simply wanted to be able to fit into society, fall in love, get the house and white picket fence. I wanted to recreate myself. I wanted to forget who my mother had and be the woman I wanted to be. I created a whole new life for myself. Unfortunately, I was forced to choose between myself and my family. My family members would call me a “faggot.” Luckily, more recently and especially since the cancer, I've had my family start to support and rally behind me. They don't have much money, but they are praying for me and are they're trying. They finally say I love you... and I haven't heard that since I was a kid.

I really want people to know, our surgeries and injections are not cosmetic, they are needed for us to feel like who we are. You can’t beat it out of your kids. Is it an act of God? I don’t know, but I do know there is a greater purpose for us [trans] people. If we weren’t here there would be something missing.

All I ever wanted was to be a woman. I struggled my whole life. When I look in the mirror, this is all I want to be and can be. Whether I live through this or whether I die, I just want to be remembered as Tomorrow. Although I couldn’t do everything I wanted to do, I Iived my best life as a woman.

My Dream(s):

Before I leave this world...

1. I would love to own a convertible VW. LOL seriously I love them things.

2. Another dream of mine has been to get face feminization surgery. I've never been comfortable with my face. I've gone to prison trying to get the money to for FFS, but never was able to see the fruits of it.

3. There's also this cross that I saw that I promised myself for my birthday which is ($2,800) my goal was to buy it, take it to my pastor, have him pray over it, and then to get baptized--that was my goal for my birthday.

4. Lastly, one of my lifelong wishes is to put together a documentary about my [trans] community--so the world can see and hear our stories, know our truths. I want to leave my legacy behind and pay it forward.

But none of these things matter because with God's help, I will continue fighting to see another day.

As of March 18th 2022 my biggest dream is to start tomorrow's promise my own outreach which I'm trying to raise $200,000 to do so believe in me and help me start this help me change the lives of these other girls there's never had a chance in life . I'M afresh eye, With a fresh voice and a new fight being angel and an ambassador for God and bless me with this money to start tomorrow's promise and when you do #this is for tomorrow's promise change the life today of a person who just needs the help.

After all, my name is Tomorrow.

1/22/22 today oncologist called and told me that they're putting me on chemo with radiation at the same time chemo was so hard on my body to think I'm going to be on chemo and radiation at one time back to back five days a week then I found out I have to leave THC the housing program so now I'm back to being homeless and have to find some place to go with my two dogs. I hope you all watch the 11 alive news that I did and that's now airing on YouTube,: Homeless Transgender Battle of cancer on YouTube. If you notice we decided to raise the fundraiser because if I live I want to open up my own program for trans women so no one can put them out so they can get the help that they really need now that I've gone through it I know that I can help and I know what it feels like please help me.

It's now October and it's almost the end of the month and I'm almost close to going into surgery but I don't have the money to pay for it I've used all the funds that you all see has been donated to me for the other surgeries that I've had and for medical care and for my medication as well as personal care my friends are depleted and I'm at the ground zero I know it seems like I have $25,000 or $26,000 but I don't I'm at ground zero all that money is already been paid out to the hospital for the other surgeries that I've had which was the colonoscopy and the surgery to stop the bleeding that I was having eternally I really need someone's help please I'm begging you I go to see the doctor November the 2nd and the 3rd and the 4th and I'm asking for your help to take them some sort of money that they'll know that I could pay the rest of it and that they'll put me on their calendar to remove my breath and to do reconstruction if I qualify thank Tuesday NOV22/22, I'M NEEDING $400 AND THAT'S WITHOUT THE TAX FOR MY MEDS AND ANTIBIOTICS WITH CHEMO AND EVERYTHING OUR BODY HEALS DIFFERENTLY AND I NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHILE I'M HEALING BECAUSE OUR BODY AND OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS DOWN SO IT'S EASY TO CATCH ANYTHING IF THERE'S ANYBODY OUT THERE THAT CAN DONATE $400 TODAY WOULD YOU PLEASE DONATE IT TO MY CASH APP AND MY VENMO IT'S REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT THAT I GET IT WHILE I'M HEALING AND THEN I HAVE TO LOCK DOWN UNTIL I'M HEALED I CAN'T BE OUT AND ABOUT TO HAVE THANKSGIVING WITH OTHER PEOPLE HOWEVER THE PROCEDURE WAS DONE AND I'M THANKFUL FOR THAT. GOD BLESS TO REBECCA N, AND ALL OF THOSE THAT HAS HELPED ME GET THERE AND BLESSED ME AND ALLOW GOD TO WORK THROUGH THEM TO BLESS ME. I DON'T EVEN HAVE MONEY TO GET DOG FOOD SMH HOWEVER I'M ALIVE FOR NOW. THANK YOU ALL SO IF YOU ALL CAN DONATE 400 TODAY SO I CAN GET MY MEDS AND STUFF LIKE THAT I WILL BE GRATEFUL AND IF YOU COULD DONATE A LITTLE MORE SO I CAN GET SOME DOG FOOD I WILL BE SUPER GRATEFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD BLESS YOU ALL

LOVE

TOMORROW.