This is one of my dearest friends please help if you can. This is her story: My name is Sara. I was a single mother of two beautiful girls until 3 years ago when I got married. My husband was diagnosed with cancer and is 35 years old. He is my rock. I was an educator for 18 years until I started nursing full time. As an educator, I studied Montessori education and taught from preschool to 8th grade. I went into nursing full time 8 years ago. ER/trauma nursing has been the last 7 years of my career. I love it. I can’t see myself doing anything else. I work at the Department of Veteran Affairs and serve veterans full time, and I work at my local hospital once a week. I have always served my community. I have always given the best version of myself to my job and the people I teach and care for. Now I need the help I provide to all of my patients. This is A time I never thought would come, and being on the other side of being taken care of is truly humbling. I had a stroke last month and continue to have balance issues. In addition to the stroke, I found out what I thought was just a lump in my breast, but is a very nasty tumor growing from the musculature and bone behind my breast and into my breast.I will be having the tumor removed and chest wall reconstruction. A job for 3 surgeons and 2 assistants. The bills are mounting. Two emergency room visits, two mammograms, one being diagnostic, two ultrasounds, two MRI’s, two CT scans and multiple doctor specialist visits I am already unable to keep up with the medical bills. I am looking to be in ICU 3 days at least and out of work at least 6 weeks. This is not counting the stroke rehab I am supposed to start after this recovery from the tumor removal or the radiation I start after I recover. My only worry is how my family will survive without me working and, of course, the bills. I hope all the years of service and giving will somehow be returned to me in this time of desperate need in the form of prayers, positive energy and financial assistance so I can focus on recovery and get back on my feet to continue nursing others. Thank you!
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