My daughter Michelle was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in January of 2025. She is now undergoing chemotherapy for 5 months, followed by a double mastectomy.
She is an R.N. infusion nurse but was told not to work because her immune system will be compromised. Her health insurance is limited, and she supports 2 minor children. Michelle is a widow who lost her husband to Covid in 2021. Any donations will be helpful. Thank you. She has recently lost her hair and is very depressed. She is fearful about the future but is relying on support groups from the breast cancer foundations to help her through this struggle. Each chemotherapy appointment costs $538.00.
Her mammogram in 2024 showed several suspicious areas, and they ordered a stat mammogram. On Dec. 24th, her diagnosis was breast cancer, with lymph node involvement. The oncologist stated that it was an ‘aggressively growing tumor’ and she had some pain on the right side of her breast, which has now begun to disappear after 2 chemotherapy treatments.
She must undergo this treatment for 4 more months and is worried about how her medical bills will be paid. We as her parents are helping financially as much as we can but cannot cover all of her medical debt. Please help.
Michelle is 50 years old, a practicing nurse for over 20 years, and a graduate of Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey. She has a bachelors degree in Communications.Her mammograms have been negative until the one in December of 24. She has three children, ages 19, 16, and 13.
Her finances are her most prominent fear right now, as she goes to chemotherapy every two weeks, and has to pay as she goes.
Although her situation is not abnormal the breast surgeon has shared with her that patients like her with financial instability go into huge amounts of medical debt, and she has to avoid that.
Her family and some of her friends have made donations but it is not enough to cover all of the expenses that she will incur during the next several months. Most importantly, her services are desperately needed as an infusion nurse, as there are so few nurses available to do her kind of nursing.