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Supporting Tennille while she FIGHTS cancer

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Tennille (Salvato) Holmes is a Daughter, Wife, Mother, Nonnie, Sister, and my Friend since high school. Many of you may know Tennille, if you do than you know she has a big smile and a personality to match.
When you work in the medical field, like Tennille does, as a certified medical assistant at Berk surgical, you know those phone calls, to come into the office aren't always good.
On November 13th, at the recommendation of her doctor and after a period of time with abnormal symptoms and pain Tennille had a colonoscopy. On November 17th she received a call, the one you never want to get or never imagined you would. A small mass found in her sigmoid colon. After talking with her surgical team, that she just so happened to work for, surgery was scheduled for December 1st. Tennille would have the infected colon removed, a resection, and she would be cancer free. Never thinking that her pathology report would say other wise. Stage 3 colon/rectal cancer with BRAF MUTATION!
Chemo Treatment starts on the 13th, folfox every two weeks, four hour treatments, then home with 5fu for 48 hours (chemo attached to her with a machine). She'll then Return back for nulasta injection, which is very painful but used to promote bone marrow. 6 months of infusion chemo (by port), then oral chemo with radiation. 25 treatments of radiation, five times per week. I used a lot of medical terms as far as her diagnosis and treatment, I wanted to be completely open and honest about what Tennille is up against, I would encourage you to search some of this info if you are unsure. She has along road here, and while she is working now and plans to work as much as she physically can, there will be days, weeks, maybe longer that she just physically can’t, we all only have so much sick/vacation time to use, and cancer doesn't care about any of that. Tennille also has an amazing husband Jay, who she fell in love with when she was 17, they'll soon celebrate 25 years of marriage. Jay also works, but there may be times when he needs to be with Tennille. I/we don’t ever want Tennille to focus one ounce of her energy on worrying about how she will manage financially, or to question if she can “afford” to be sick. Please help my friend, please share, please keep her in your prays, and please know that myself, all of her friends, family and Tennille herself are grateful for you all. I will keep you all updated as Tennille journeys through this diagnosis and kicks cancers ass     

If you prefer not to use Gofund me you can Venmo Tennille @Tennille-Holmes 

   

   

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    Kelly Akroman
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    Cheshire, MA
    Tennille Holmes
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