Kormos Cancer Battle (family, medical, memories )

My name is Ann, and last July 7, 2021 at

only age 45 I was diagnosed in the Emergency Department after years of pain that was

disregarded with stage 4B ovarian cancer.

 

I am a married wife and mom to 3 children

ages 17, 15 and 8.

I am aslo a full time high school teacher and I am actively involved in taking care of my dad who is 88 and helping my sister who

has special needs son.

 

Initially I had a successful response with frontline chemo and surgery from July 7-Dec 21st 2021.

However the achieved remission was short lived and by April 2022 the cancer was back

in both lungs. Currently I have a trace amount on the right side and I am half way full on left side. I started a new chemotherapy May 6 which now looks to be impacting my heart, stamina and over all health. I feel extreme fatigue and weaker than I have on all treatment up to this point.

 

This Go fund me account is being set up

because as a family we are reaching a

breaking point due to my Ovarian cancer

diagnosis now almost a year into the battle.

 

The plan was to stay in remission which did not happen. Starting the entire chemo/medical journey again greatly impacted so many aspects of our family life. 

Financially the hits were big. My last most recent teacher pay check because of all the new medical appointments, scans, chemo, etc the days lost have no banked sick leave. FMLA and any reserve time has been depleted.

I aslo lost stipend positions this year I used to carry along with my teacher pay. 

So less income comes in because I am fighting cancer, making it harder each month. My husband aslo a teacher has had to take days because of my medical appointments exhausting his leave time.

 

Our family has depleted any small savings we had as well. 

The future with a stage 4 ovarian recurrent diagnosis has huge unknowns. I believe I will have to eventually travel to get to better cancer facilities as my care is starting to hit road blocks. As a family we have limited resources currently for me to get care at 

those better options if I should need them. 

 

My family has aslo been extremely

limited on funds for what special memories

we have access to make with my stage 4

reoccurring cancer. There are some wishes and dreams as a family we would like to do as we have no certainty of time as doctors have communicated I am not curable at this point.

Unpaid medical expenses are aslo starting to pile up after almost a year into the battle.

It is an extremely overwhelming time feeling

buried in many difficulties despite both my husband and I working as much as able. I did get a secondary job doing food delivery a few months back but am often to sick now on weekends to work extra hours. 

 

Thank you in advance to all who donate to lift us up and read our story and if you can't donate, prayers are the most welcomed gifts holding us in God's hands.

I pray that God can open new doors and our family can be in a different place and remission would come in the future.

It was extremely difficult, tough and somewhat humiliating to reach rock bottom. We tried to do everything on our own for so long. Seeing the need to plan ahead for what may come, having limited resources and wanting to make memories with my family now is why we decided to create a go fund me.

 

Blessings from God our Father on you, all who read our story, pray for healing and are miracles to us as we walk in this next stage of the cancer journey. Thank you for your compassion on our family.

God bless...Kormos family