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This week I have been applying for financial assistance.
Here is my latest post about our family woes. See
my websites with donation tabs (to the right of this blog
at the top) if you can help us out.
The letter that my doctor wrote sounds like the rings of
death but I feel very much alive. I even mowed the lawn
this week instead of taking my walk:
"This letter is to certify that Ms. Denise .......... is under my
current care for advanced, recurrent, metastic breast
cancer which is HER 2 positive and pulmonary embolism.
She is currently receiving weekly outpatient Taxal chemo-
therapy and monoclonal antibody therapy with hercepton.
....... She is the mother of 5 young children and due to her
medical condition and treatment is currently 100% disabled
to work.
I would strongly support her application for financial
assistance through your cancer outreach center......."
I love my doctor. She is one of the kindest people I have
ever met. She is an immigrant from Germany and just
became a United States citizen.
The main reasons I can't work are: my children, fatigue,
and loss of strength and motion in my left arm from a
lumpectomy in my left breast and arm pit 1.5 years ago.
My OT comes three days a week to help me regain that
motion. That ends next week and then I am responsible
for the exercises on my own.
Dear Board of Directors:
Enclosed is the requested physicians letter. The last fifteen years I have been
a stay at home mother raising my children now ages 6 to almost fourteen.
Six years ago my husband left me and we have been sharing custody since.
Two years ago when I saw my dwindling bank savings from a settlement
and realized I needed to start working, I got sick with breast cancer making
it hard to think of even working with continuous fatigue and then pain and
lack of range of motion from a lumpectomy surgery.
Starting last September I had to start putting purchases, gas and groceries
on credit cards to save my savings for monthly bills. In January I sold
our van to pay off these debts.
But then I had to start over on my credit cards. Now down to $400, begging
money from friends and applying for govt. assistance, this credit card debt
is looming over my head. It is my biggest worry. Enclosed you will find
my latest bill for it. (now about $11,000 with about $15,000 debt total on
all my cards)
Any help is appreciated toward this bill.
Also if you know of any other organization where I can apply for financial
assistance send them my way. I will be applying for heat assistance in
November. I have applied for disability for MassHealth (I have court
ordered insurance also), am currently also applying for food stamps
and welfare.
Your gas cards sound appealing also. I mostly use Mobil here where I live.
Thanks so much!
-Denise Michelle
