Nikole's fight with cancer

There is no feeling worse than having your sister call you and say, “I have cancer” except maybe, “My cancer is back.”

My sister Nikole Hines was first diagnosed in August 2015 after a lump in her armpit grew alarmingly large. She was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer and it had spread to her lymph nodes. She went through chemotherapy and had a double mastectomy, followed by radiation therapy which completed in July 2016. All this happened while she struggled to keep her job as a caretaker for an elderly person. It’s been a year of heartbreak and pain but it looked like the worst was behind her.
Her doctor, worried that her lymph nodes had not shrunk as much as he would like to see before they were removed, recommended additional chemotherapy but my sister’s insurance denied all of them.

Spending a year in cancer treatment is hard on you financially and she was struggling to try and pick up the loose ends when she started to feel ill again. Her cancer had returned but this time it is in the lymph nodes along her whole spine.  

To complicate things, her car recently broke down, her lack of funds is threatening her home and ability to communicate and as a good sister I would like to get her some relief so she can concentrate on getting better instead of how she is going to get to her next appointment.

We would also like to explore treatment options that may not be covered by her insurance to keep this from happening a second time if we get that chance.  Get her reliable transportation, cover medications, procedures that aren't covered under insurance and cover housing ... as she is to sick to work.  

When I asked my sister "what's the chance you survive this?"  Her response was "if I do, which isn't looking good, I am going to be financially ruined anyways!"- Nikole Hines.   It breaks my heart that she is forced to go thru this a second time,  yet alone have to worry about how she is going to pay for it all. 

She has a 23 year old daughter and 2 nephews who look up to her.  Our father died of a heart attack in 1991 and our mother died of liver failure in 2013.   She is the only immediate family I have left and I can't afford  to lose her!!!! 

With your help, Faith and western medicine...  we pray she can get past this fight.  
Thank you for taking the time to read this.


She asked me to "just cut it all off", as she was starting to have patches of hair fall out due to chemo.  

Christmas 2015 - she was in the middle of her chemo. 
Right before she was diagnosed with breast cancer.