Honor Loreen: Fund Cancer Research

My mother Loreen was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer in Aug 2022 after finding a lump in her armpit earlier in 2022, and by the time she was diagnosed, it had already metastasized into her liver and it just kept spreading before they could do anything. By Oct 2022, she was gone. It was so aggressive that I wasn't able to make it home from Vermont until she was already on life support. I was there when we said goodbye luckily.

Triple Negative Breast cancer is a very aggressive type of breast cancer with less treatment options, and is more likely to spread than other breast cancers. Once it becomes metastatic, the person generally has a 1.5-2 year life expectancy.

My mom Loreen was the most loving, caring, funny, incredibly kind woman you ever met. I get my love of animals from her, my love of tea, she's the reason I am always carrying a blanket around with me. My mom shaped me into who I am today and for that I am forever grateful. I get my smile from my mom, and how my eyes light up is from her. She loved cooking shows, and to cook and bake. I genuinely think she just loved deeper than anyone I ever met. Everyone she met, felt such a deep love that since she passed, is such a deep hole that can't be filled.

This fundraiser is meant to help the women(and men) affected and to further research to hopefully increase treatments and the life expectancy of those diagnosed. Loreen would want to make a difference and she did up until her very last day and I want her memory to make a difference.

So for those who read this far, smile like Loreen, laugh like Loreen and just love and live everyday like it's your last, laugh like Loreen and just be full of life. Her memory needs to always live on, and more people need to know her story.

Any money raised will be going directly to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation where they use funds to study and research ways to help those who are diagnosed and maybe even find a cure or a way to extend the life expectancy, create new treatments and they help women and families with support groups and whatever they may need.

Thank you,

Shayla