Sydney was a kind, caring and beautiful 27-year-old young lady, who was fighting for her life battling lymphoma and leukemia for the past three years. Sadly, she lost her fight on Monday, 29 April 2024 when she passed away peacefully in hospice with her family by her side. After her initial diagnosis in 2021, she underwent intensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments and went into complete remission. While in remission, she met a wonderful man, fell in love, got married and had a beautiful baby boy. One week after giving birth she discovered the cancer had returned. Over the past year, she endured another grueling series of extensive medical treatments in an effort to get back into complete remission. If successful, she would have been a candidate for a bone marrow transplant. Unfortunately, with the cancer now even more aggressive than before, her doctors finally exhausted all possible chemotherapy treatment options to get her back into remission. With time running out, a last chance cure option was for an experimental stem cell therapy procedure. However, even after making a non-refundable private air transportation reservation to go the stem cell replacement facility, Sydney’s system was by then too weak and compromised to travel and she instead went into hospice care.
Contributions are being asked to help defray the still considerable amount of outstanding (non-insurance covered) expenses the family has incurred while trying to save Sydney’s life – as well as funeral expenses. Any amount would be greatly appreciated and will help them in this time of their sorrow and grieving. All money over and above that needed to cover the outstanding expenses will be used to establish an educational fund for Sydney’s son.