Funds needed to Save My Life
Fundraising campaign by
Tanya De Bruyn
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ZAR36,300raised of R270,000.00 goal goal
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Campaign Story
I am a 48 year old female and was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer on 13 August 2019. I have been extremely healthy my entire life, and this was like a death sentence to hear. I am by nature a very positive person and decided to tackle this with a positive mindset as well. It was hard (still is) and the amount of emotions you experience daily, cannot be described to anyone else unless you go through this. My entire life changed in one day. My outlook on life changed. I am unable to work as I was getting intense chemo therapy and radiation (last 4 months)
When we did a PET scan, we found that I have progressed with the chemo. It helped partly, but now my cancer has spread into my neck and another mass was found in my left lung which was not there.
I am one of a very few that qualifies for immunotherapy and the one that will help me the most is: Pembrolizumab. It has been registered in South Africa for two types of cancer. Non small cell lung cancer and is specifically for patients who have failed or progressed after initial treatment like chemo therapy. I was getting a very strong chemo (Cisplatin), but progressed on it.
This drug works better if the expression of PD-L1 (programmed cell death ligand 1) on the cancer is more than 51%. Mine is 60%, meaning it will work so well with me.
The problem is that it is extremely expensive in South Africa and not even my medical aid can approve this drug due to the costs. This can save my life, but because we do not have the funds, they want to put me on more chemo (Docetaxel) with really bad side effects. I am still so young and full of life. I have so much more to give in life.....
The cost for this immunotherapy is R90,000 (South Africa currency) per shot and I will need about six of them. That is $6,136 per shot. I will need about 6 of them every 3 weeks.
I need this very soon as my cancer is aggressive and the sooner we can start with this, the better I will be off.
In all of this, I lost my father on the 23rd of October - he was one of my biggest supporters and always tried keeping me positive. He was my hero. I found out at his funeral that he prayed to God daily and asked God to rather take his life than mine. He was very healthy, but died of a sudden heart attack in October. I am heart broken - it is as if he wanted to trade his life for mine.
All I can say is, please please help me if you can! I can still do so much good in my life and I have so much life still left in me! I pray that my story will touch someone out there. I know it is a lot of money to raise, but how do you measure how much a life is worth?
Organizer
- Tanya De Bruyn
- Campaign Owner
Donors
- Aaron Seguin
- Posted On Feb 05, 2020
I hope you beat the lung cancer stay positive. I wish you all the best.
- Anonymous
- Donated on Jan 28, 2020
Your commitment in fighting this challenge has been astonishing. Continue to fight!
Update after 3 Treatments
Update posted by Tanya De Bruyn at 02:17 pmI have managed to collect R240,000!!! That was enough for 3 treatments. I did my 3rd one last week Friday and I am glad to say that I have no side effects and I am feeling great. I will be doing a CT scan on the 5th of February to. . . . .
Donors & Comments
- Bruno Alves
- Posted On Mar 01, 2020
Good luck
- Aaron Seguin
- Posted On Feb 05, 2020
I hope you beat the lung cancer stay positive. I wish you all the best.
- Anonymous
- Donated on Jan 28, 2020
Your commitment in fighting this challenge has been astonishing. Continue to fight!
- Anonymous
- Donated on Jan 20, 2020
Tanya u can do this!
- Michelle Coetzee
- Donated on Jan 13, 2020
Johannes 11:40 Jesus sê toe vir haar: “Het Ek nie vir jou gesê as jy glo, sal jy die openbaring van die wonderbaarlike mag van God sien nie?”
- Anonymous
- Donated on Dec 18, 2019
- Louis Botes
- Donated on Dec 14, 2019
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- Anonymous
- Donated on Dec 14, 2019
- Rean Barnard
- Donated on Dec 12, 2019
Raak gou gesond
- Anonymous
- Donated on Dec 11, 2019
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