Help Vera Fight The Cancer and Reunite With Family

Dear Friends and Family,

My name is Nevena Kirovic and I am the daughter of Vera Kirovic, my superhero.

While visiting the United States in October 2024 with my mom, and being so excited and happy to go on this tour with her, our trip became a real living nightmare.

Recently, after arriving in Michigan, my mom’s health condition got bad and I brought her to the Emergency Room where doctors stated she urgently needs to get transferred to the hospital.

They did the biopsy after I did countless calls with doctors and begging. We struggled to get the biopsy done because she doesn't have insurance and she is not a US citizen.

It was the real living hell almost 30 days while waiting for the biopsy results to come and on November 26th she was diagnosed with aggressive tumor, nasal squamous cell carcinoma.

After countless sleepless nights and questions whether they are going to do the surgery for my mom and save her life, because the cancer was progressing so quickly, it was a matter of days to keep her alive.

After many prayers and telephone calls, she did undergo the surgery on January 27th in Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Surgery lasted 10 hours. Vera underwent transfacial, lateral rhinectomy with radical subtotal maxillectomy, maxillary reconstruction with fibula osteocutaneous free flap, palate reconstruction, and skin graft.

She was in a coma for 10 days and only God knows what me and my family went through not knowing if we were going to be able to see her beautiful blue eyes again.

After staying for almost 2 months in an Intensive Care Unit, where she got an infection of her lungs, she was discharged from the hospital on March 14th.

Barriers to post-acute care at a rehab facility, radiation, and chemotherapy include lack of insurance coverage.

While not being a US citizen and not having insurance, she needs to pay for urgent radiation and chemotherapy and her current health condition is not allowing her to fly back to her homeland, Montenegro.

Please share this page, keep my mum in your thoughts and prayers, and contribute if you are able. Our goal is with family, friends, and community support, that each dollar contributed will help with the radiation and chemotherapy and hopefully she can reunite with the family and friends soon in Montenegro.

Thank you for your gracious support.

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Dragi prijatelji i porodico,

Zovem se Nevena Kirović i ćerka sam Vere Kirović, mog superheroja. 

Moja mama Vera i ja došle smo u posjetu Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama u oktobar 2024. Tokom tog perioda bile smo neizmjerno srećne i uzbuđene što smo otišli ​​na ovaj put zajedno, sve dok naše putovanje nije postalo prava noćna mora. 

Ne dugo, po dolasku u Mičigen, zdravstveno stanje moje mame se pogoršalo, nakon čega sam je odvela u hitnu, gdje su doktori rekli da hitno treba da bude prebačena u bolnicu. 

 Uradili su biopsiju nakon što sam obavila bezbroj poziva sa doktorima i preklinjanja. Borili smo se da joj doktori urade biopsiju jer ona nema osiguranje i nije državljanin SAD-a. 

 Bio je to pravi pakao skoro 30 dana dok smo čekali rezultate biopsije, a 26. novembra joj je dijagnostikovan agresivni tumor, karcinom skvamoznih ćelija nosa. 

 Poslije bezbroj neprospavanih noći i pitanja da li će je operisati i spasiti joj život, jer je rak tako brzo napredovao i dani su joj bili odbrojani.

  Nakon mnogo molitvi i telefonskih poziva, ona je ipak bila podvrgnuta operaciji 27. januara, koja je trajala 10 sati. 

Vera je podvrgnuta transfacijalnoj, lateralnoj rinektomiji sa radikalnom subtotalnom maksilektomijom, rekonstrukcijom maksilarnog tkiva sa slobodnim osteokutanim režnjem fibule, rekonstrukcijom nepca i kožnim graftom u Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan.

 Bila je u komi 10 dana i samo Bog zna kroz šta smo moja porodica i ja prošli, ne znajući da li ćemo ponovo moći da vidimo njene prelijepe plave oči. 

 Poslije skoro 2 mjeseca boravka na odjeljenju intenzivne njene, gdje je dobila infekciju pluća, otpuštena je iz bolnice 14. marta. 

 Prepreke za post-akutnu njegu u ustanovi za rehabilitaciju, zračenje i hemoterapiju uključuju nedostatak osiguranja.

 S’obzirom da nije državljanka SAD-a i nema osiguranje, mora da plati hitno zračenje i hemoterapiju kako bi nastavila liječenje, a njeno trenutno zdravstveno stanje joj ne dozvoljava da se vrati u svoju domovinu, Crnu Goru. 

Molimo vas da podijelite ovu stranicu, zadržite moju mamu u svojim mislima i molitvama i date doprinos ako ste u mogućnosti.

Naš cilj je da uz podršku porodice, prijatelja i zajednice, prikupljeni novac pomogne u započinjanju zračenja i hemoterapije.

Nadamo se da će se Vera uskoro moći ponovo susresti sa porodicom i prijateljima u Crnoj Gori. 

 Hvala vam na ljubaznoj podršci.