Please help my mother by donating so we can explore alternative healing therapies and help her survive cancer.
Auckland
UPDATE 22/01/2018: I have got a group of people together to cut their hair (along with myself) with the help of some sponsors, we can help mum get her second round of treatment from the bio medical centre in Mexico. All hair will be donated to make wigs for people who need it most, people dealing with cancer like my beautiful mother. My mum is going to cut her hair too!
My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in February 2017. I don't quite know how to put into words what has happened to all of us in the days since the initial diagnosis. I had opened another give a little page in June 2017 and an amazing $2730 was donated by kind hearted donors, some known and unknown to us. Thank you is not a big enough word for your help, you love. Intention and kindness is healing. This money has assisted in mum going to Tijuana in Mexico, to a biomedical centre that has treated cancer naturally for over 80 years. It has assisted in her treatment for 6 months. Some days I sit and contemplate if people really know how much difference they have made in our lives, how profound the kindness is in these days of life harshest lessons. How much I search for goodness. I am moms carer, she requires around the clock care. It is my belief that cancer is curable and it is a challenging road to find what I am seeking but I won't stop. I am continually trying my best to raise funds.
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Writing this may be one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life. It makes me have to face the truth, that cancer is ravaging my mothers body and there is not too much that government funded treatment can do for her at this stage of her cancer.
This one word, cancer, can absolutely rock the foundation that once I thought was impenetrable. Entire families are shook to their very core, because as much as its one person whose body, mind and spirit is affected, the reach of cancer is far and vast.
If you know my mother she is one of the most kind hearted, humble, warm and generous souls in this world. She has time for everybody without judgement. She loves easily and opens her heart to all. A teacher for over forty years, and if you know anything about being a teacher you give your heart and soul to all your kids. My mother has worked with all types of children and specifically special needs children. She is mother to four children, my brother where perhaps she has gained her affinity for special needs kids through a traumatic birth and negligence of medical staff at the time my brothers brain was damaged, three daughters who absolutely adore the strong woman goddess who raised them and a husband who found his soul mate 34 years ago and one adoring granddaughter. She is a devout Christian, the organist at the New Apostolic Church and has selflessly played in our churches since she was 18 years old, every Sunday and Wednesday. Assisting souls in preparing for the word of God. Christian since the day her parents brought her to be baptized. A pillar of hope and strength to so many. She has touched countless lives leaving all of whom are better for having met a true angel in this world.
My mothers cancer journey begins a few months ago, she was diagnosed in February of the year 2017. I remember sitting in that room with my sisters and father and almost feeling like an out of body experience was taking place because this doctor had just told us that my mother had stage 3 breast cancer. At that point all hope wasn’t lost because they opted immediately for a mastectomy, cutting off the whole breast. However before they were to go ahead with the surgery they had to ensure that the cancer had not spread because of the suspicious lymph nodes. Mum went along for bone scans and CT scans. Throughout this time, all of a sudden your life is no longer yours, there's appointments with doctors and psychologists, we are also always seeking alternative healing therapies and have tried everything possible, visitors, new diet regimes, supplements, schedules that details each waking hour of my mothers days. Still trying to maintain some semblance of a normal life, working to assist in financial strain that will inevitably occur. I didn’t understand "cancer" until it visited my family home. Everybody is affected by this disease.
It just so happens that simultaneously we discover, through the scans the excruciating pain my mother has been through is an additional diagnosis of osteo arthritis which has affected almost all of her joints. She is taking tramadol daily to cope. This has greatly affected her mobility and she needs someone with her daily to ensure she can do basic tasks like get out of bed or get into the car.
In May Mum goes for her follow up appointment from the bone scan and we hear worst case scenario. The cancer has spread to her bones. So now surgery is no longer a viable treatment option. They can make her comfortable as possible and give her some drugs in the hope that the cancer doesn’t continue to grow. My mother has advanced stage 4 cancer that has spread to her bones. This is not necessarily a death sentence with advances in the medical field people can live with cancer in their bodies for months, years and some even decades.
I am not giving up hope. This is my mothers life. She is 62, she needs to be there when my sisters and I get married and give birth and my father wishes to take her on a cruise and my brother how can I explain that my mother is the keystone of his life. So there are alternative treatments out there which require travel and treatment costs which we need help with. There is a bio medical centre in Mexico that’s been set up for 80 years and have an 80% success rate at curing the type of people like my mum that the western medicine regime cant do much for. We have done our research and healing cancer is possible we just cant afford it all at once. If you can help in any way no matter how small please do.
This is my mother and I will do anything and everything to help her get through this. Please help my mother by donating so we can get her second round of alternative healing treatment and help her survive cancer.
All funds will be used to pay for Esmurelda's (My mum) Cancer treatments and will go a long way to admonish some of the pressures this unforeseen trauma has placed on her and our family and allow her to just focus on getting better.
Reason for reopening this page 20 January 2018
This picture is of mum and dad in Tijuana, Mexico her first visit to the Biomedical centre there. Life Saving Trip.
I am reopening this page as it is an ongoing fundraising effort and this page wasn't closed by me.
My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in February 2017. I don't quite know how to put into words what has happened to all of us in the days since the initial diagnosis. I had opened this give a little page in June 2017 and an amazing $2730 was donated by kind hearted donors, some known and unknown to us. Thank you is not a big enough word for your help, you love. Intention and kindness is healing. This money has assisted in mum going to Tijuana in Mexico, to a biomedical centre that has treated cancer naturally for over 80 years. It has assisted in her treatment for 6 months. Some days I sit and contemplate if people really know how much difference they have made in our lives, how profound the kindness is in these days of life harshest lessons. How much I search for goodness. I am moms carer, she requires around the clock care. It is my belief that cancer is curable and it is a challenging road to find what I am seeking but I won't stop. I am continually trying my best to raise funds.
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