Medical Costs for Leticia Garza-Falcon, Ph.D
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Our friend, Leticia Garza-Falcón, Ph.D, is battling cancer in Mission, Texas. After a couple of surgeries, the doctors have told her it is going to be a tough fight. She has gotten second opinions from other doctors and they too concur, this fight is going to be a challenge. Her insurance has picked up some of the costs, but there are other forth-coming tests, services and treatments that are “out of network.” I want to help Leticia and I want you to help also.
I met Leticia in 2007 in Austin, Texas. But before I met her, I discovered her book, Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance, (University of Texas Press, 1998). This book is a study of Mexican American writers who provided counternarratives to Walter P. Webb's images of "savage" Mexicans and Indians. The book, which came out of her dissertation at The University of Texas at Austin in the early 1990s, is a fabulous read and left me thinking about the way we look at history and people.
The day I met her in the offices of Andy Martinez, then the CEO of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and heard her name, I immediately connected her to the book. I only saw Leticia a few times in Austin before she decided to move back to the Rio Grande Valley to help take care of her parents. She had previously been a literature professor here in Texas, California, Colorado and in Spain. But for some reason, she left an indelible mark on me with her presence and demeanor.
When I learned she was fighting cancer, I immediately “connected” with her again because last year I too found myself in a similar situation - two operations and 30 rounds of radiation seems to have contained my own cancer and I am grateful my insurance was able to cover most of the costs.
But Leticia’s cancer is far more challenging. In communicating with her over the internet, I suggested she try a Go Fund Me page to deal with her loss of income and lack of complete insurance coverage. She wrote back and told me that she had too much pride to ask for donations. I told her, deja tu el pride, we are talking about your survival. I told her that she had a lot of friends all over the country who would be willing to help if only she let it be known what she is up against.
So it is with some reluctance on Leticia’s part that I am spearheading a campaign to help her. Please join me in making a contribution to Leticia’s Go Fund Me page.
Muchas gracias,
Alfredo R. Santos c/s
Editor and Publisher
La Voz Newspapers
I met Leticia in 2007 in Austin, Texas. But before I met her, I discovered her book, Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance, (University of Texas Press, 1998). This book is a study of Mexican American writers who provided counternarratives to Walter P. Webb's images of "savage" Mexicans and Indians. The book, which came out of her dissertation at The University of Texas at Austin in the early 1990s, is a fabulous read and left me thinking about the way we look at history and people.
The day I met her in the offices of Andy Martinez, then the CEO of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and heard her name, I immediately connected her to the book. I only saw Leticia a few times in Austin before she decided to move back to the Rio Grande Valley to help take care of her parents. She had previously been a literature professor here in Texas, California, Colorado and in Spain. But for some reason, she left an indelible mark on me with her presence and demeanor.
When I learned she was fighting cancer, I immediately “connected” with her again because last year I too found myself in a similar situation - two operations and 30 rounds of radiation seems to have contained my own cancer and I am grateful my insurance was able to cover most of the costs.
But Leticia’s cancer is far more challenging. In communicating with her over the internet, I suggested she try a Go Fund Me page to deal with her loss of income and lack of complete insurance coverage. She wrote back and told me that she had too much pride to ask for donations. I told her, deja tu el pride, we are talking about your survival. I told her that she had a lot of friends all over the country who would be willing to help if only she let it be known what she is up against.
So it is with some reluctance on Leticia’s part that I am spearheading a campaign to help her. Please join me in making a contribution to Leticia’s Go Fund Me page.
Muchas gracias,
Alfredo R. Santos c/s
Editor and Publisher
La Voz Newspapers
Organizer and beneficiary
Alfredo Santos
Organizer
Leander, TX
Leticia Garza-Falcon
Beneficiary