Lorie Wallace's Cancer Struggle
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The past two years have been rough for Lorie. At the beginning of 2015, she lost her job of fifteen years when the college she worked for decided to restructure and eliminate her department.
In February of 2016 she lost her beloved dog Gizmo and, a week later, her mother passed away. A year later, she wound up in the hospital after a combination asthma attack and viral infection nearly caused her to stop breathing. Two days after she was admitted, her gynecologist called her and informed Lorie she had abnormal cells and needed to come in immediately for further testing. She had to wait several weeks to do that, however, because she was still recovering from the upper respiratory and asthma issues.
When Lorie was able to go in for further testing, she discovered she did indeed have cancer. It was assumed based on the sample that she had uterine cancer. However, once she'd gone in for her Total SP hysterectomy (a total of six organs were removed) and the removed tissue was biopsied, it turned out she actually had invasive endocervical cancer. Had he known this going in, the surgeon could have removed lymph nodes, tissue from the margins and the upper part of her birth canal and done more testing during the procedure. Since he didn't, that meant Lorie now had to undergo aggressive treatment involving weekly chemo and daily radiation concurrently.
We have been fortunate in one regard, and that is that the hospitalization at the start of the year met her deductible before any of the cancer treatment had even started. Unfortunately, that has not helped with income.
As my wife has continued her recovery, I have continued working the two jobs I have and we have squeaked by without her income, but the medical bills that still apply are coming and they are in the thousands. Also, we're nearly at the end of the year, which means our new healthcare plan is going to start hitting us with deductibles again as she goes in to make sure the cancer is indeed gone.
As reluctant as I've been to create this page, it is a thing whose time has come. In order to remain afloat in the meantime, any help would be greatly appreciated.
*About Lorie*
Just to give you an idea of the kind of person my wife is, here is a brief rundown of what she's been through and the character she has maintained in spite of it:
Five years ago we endured a foreclosure. While we were preparing to leave the house we'd been in for a decade, Lorie started giving neighbors and strangers some of her belongings. This included jewelry and even a major appliance in the form of a washing machine to the sibling of a friend that we have never replaced. She has spent years ministering to the dying in nursing homes as a Eucharistic Minister including during her mother's own battle with dementia. Somehow she was able to obtain her degree in History while often staying with her mother and taking care of her. She even worked with a dog rescue and adopted two in addition to the one we saved from a horrible fate when the store we found him in was about to get rid of him. Lorie went without healthcare for years until the ACA was passed and it has literally saved her life at least three times. She often placed the needs of others before her own and it is time for hers to take the forefront.
In February of 2016 she lost her beloved dog Gizmo and, a week later, her mother passed away. A year later, she wound up in the hospital after a combination asthma attack and viral infection nearly caused her to stop breathing. Two days after she was admitted, her gynecologist called her and informed Lorie she had abnormal cells and needed to come in immediately for further testing. She had to wait several weeks to do that, however, because she was still recovering from the upper respiratory and asthma issues.
When Lorie was able to go in for further testing, she discovered she did indeed have cancer. It was assumed based on the sample that she had uterine cancer. However, once she'd gone in for her Total SP hysterectomy (a total of six organs were removed) and the removed tissue was biopsied, it turned out she actually had invasive endocervical cancer. Had he known this going in, the surgeon could have removed lymph nodes, tissue from the margins and the upper part of her birth canal and done more testing during the procedure. Since he didn't, that meant Lorie now had to undergo aggressive treatment involving weekly chemo and daily radiation concurrently.
We have been fortunate in one regard, and that is that the hospitalization at the start of the year met her deductible before any of the cancer treatment had even started. Unfortunately, that has not helped with income.
As my wife has continued her recovery, I have continued working the two jobs I have and we have squeaked by without her income, but the medical bills that still apply are coming and they are in the thousands. Also, we're nearly at the end of the year, which means our new healthcare plan is going to start hitting us with deductibles again as she goes in to make sure the cancer is indeed gone.
As reluctant as I've been to create this page, it is a thing whose time has come. In order to remain afloat in the meantime, any help would be greatly appreciated.
*About Lorie*
Just to give you an idea of the kind of person my wife is, here is a brief rundown of what she's been through and the character she has maintained in spite of it:
Five years ago we endured a foreclosure. While we were preparing to leave the house we'd been in for a decade, Lorie started giving neighbors and strangers some of her belongings. This included jewelry and even a major appliance in the form of a washing machine to the sibling of a friend that we have never replaced. She has spent years ministering to the dying in nursing homes as a Eucharistic Minister including during her mother's own battle with dementia. Somehow she was able to obtain her degree in History while often staying with her mother and taking care of her. She even worked with a dog rescue and adopted two in addition to the one we saved from a horrible fate when the store we found him in was about to get rid of him. Lorie went without healthcare for years until the ACA was passed and it has literally saved her life at least three times. She often placed the needs of others before her own and it is time for hers to take the forefront.
Organizer
Christopher Nadeau
Organizer
Redford, MI