Hello everyone,
I hope you are all having a blessed day. As many of you know, last year my mom Amber was diagnosed with leukemia (blood cancer). This diagnosis came as a massive shock to our family. At the time, she had just gone into remission from stage 4 breast cancer, and things were finally starting to feel normal again after an extremely difficult year.
My mom being the fighter she is, tackled this new cancer with just as much faith and strength as she did the first time, but it has been brutal to say the least. She has endured toxic chemotherapy, immunotherapy, blood tranfusions, bone marrow biopsies, spine injections, and more. Her immune system has been wiped out, built up, and wiped out again countless times. This process has made her extremely susceptible to getting sick. Over the past two months, my mom noticed she was short of breath and tired, but initially we thought it was her treatment side effects. The respiratory issues continued to get worse, and we sought a pulmonologist who put her on some steroids hoping it would help. Last week, she woke up with a 101 fever, and struggling to breathe. My dad rushed her to UCSD where she was admitted with dangerously low oxygen levels and tachycardia. She has been there since.
We have an amazing team of doctors who are doing everything they can to find the cause and figure out how to treat her. In the meantime, she is on round the clock antibiotics, with high dose steroids. She has been on oxygen at all times, and is being sent for countless tests to try to pinpoint the issue. My mom has been out of work for almost the entire year that she has been in treatment as she is immunocompromised. My dad is our sole provider at the moment, and my mom’s health has been his and my top priority this past year. We have been overwhelmed with medical bills, alongside our normal daily living expenses. We will now be responsible for my mom’s health insurance premium to keep her covered through this. Thank you for the continued prayers, and we would be extremely grateful for any contribution that can help my mom.
