Please help Sonya fight her Cancer for her family – drug treatment

Wow, this is what has happened in the past 18 months.

The life of Sonya Boereboom from August 2022.

Starting with pain in my back, thought I had a pinched nerve, then started having numbness and tingles in my legs. Within two days got admitted to hospital and ended up paralysed from the waist down. After extensive hospital investigations, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called MOGAD which is a rare inflammatory disease that affects the central nervous system. Months of intensive treatment to manage it followed.

Unfortunately then I slipped on wet tiles at work, fell over and broke my left femur at my hip joint in January 2023. And so began twelve weeks in a wheelchair while still getting used to MOGAD.

However, just when things couldn’t possibly get any worse, in March 2023, I was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer and again a very rare one. Next came the first round of chemo, then radiation and then the second round of a different chemo, all of which had little success in slowing the cancer progression. Now I am on an unfunded option in the private hospital sector. This unfunded drug - Sacituzumab govitecan - is extremely expensive and is not covered by any form of insurance, so I am funding it myself. After two cycles of this, my latest CT scan has shown some improvement which is a positive, so, the plan is to continue with more cycles and hope for the best.