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you look strong, stay that way....you're 1/3 of the way there!
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CHEMO TUESDAY!  2 out of 6 treatments, a third way done.  Found out today that my labwork looks good...My iron is low and improving with the help of my iron supplements.  Otherwise I am doing well.  Hubby is here keeping me company.  Thank you all for the support you continue to give us.  This is a LONG road to recovery but I am hopeful that I can handle this chemo with the strength I did with the first one.  Love you all💜
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Hardcore determination. Right on, right on.   :smt008
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Looking great! Keep smiling, we are all pulling for you!
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I heard from Brent/porky today...Raquel is hanging in there but they are struggling financially to pay for the necessary remaining procedures (immediate need is for 2 more chemos, another surgery, and 6 weeks of radiation).

Brent has kept track of all the $ we have given them (he created a separate account just for PIF $ and has been pulling it out to pay medical bills as needed) and they just spent the last of the first donation we gave them.

The A-hulls have decided unanimously to send $5,000 to help Raquel with her continued fight against breast cancer.

We currently have $16,921.43 in PayPal, and $553.81 in Checking for a total of $17,475.24.

~$1,500 of this is earmarked for AOTY/DOTY awards so we have $15,975.24 available for PIF.

After I zap over $5,000 to Brent and Raquel we will still have $10,975.24 in reserve.

THANK YOU to all of you for keeping Raquel in your thoughts and prayers and your continued support of PIF!!!!

I will do a detailed end of year post soon, but looking back I can see that we started 2016 with $10,421 in reserve:

http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=62892.msg785046#msg785046

So, we will be finishing 2016 with over $500 more in reserve than when we started the year AND we managed to donate $2,500 to young Frankie to help him in his battle against Brain Cancer, $3,000 to MontanaN8V to help with his health problems, and $10,000 to Raquel for her fight against breast cancer.

Very proud and honored to be a part of this...

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Sincerely,

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« Last Edit: December 19, 2016, 03:11:27 PM by BigJim »

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That is still a road ahead. Thank you A-Hulls and everyone for helping people in their tough journeys.
Keep up the good fight!
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😀 here's to the road to recovery for everyone 😀 I'll continue to donate
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Excellent work, Jim and A-Hulls.  :smt006
Sending good vibes to Raquel - keep fightin'!  :smt001
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Thank you Jim and A-Hulls

Without your continuing efforts to organize, promote, and transparently manage everything, there would be no PIF.

Hang in there Raquel and Brent
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We family!  Just glad to be able to help a brother out.

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Good works, good folks, thank you all for doing what you do. I support PIF. Prayers for all those fighting!
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Hello NCKA,

Sorry for the long time inbetween postings, its been hectic here.

Want to thank you all for the generous donation. Its once again making all these treatmrnts and surgery possible and we are REALLY appreciative. I mean REALLY! Without your support most of these treatments would not have been possible. Thank You! Much Love. ❤

Here is todays update from the infusion room.

"January 17th, 2017

It has been a very long 7 months for Raquel and our family. Today we are back down at the infusion room for Raquel's last chemo treatment (provided there is no reoccurrence later on). It's a long day, typically the infusions take 8-9 hours. It's a odd feeling for Raquel and I both. Theres the one side of us that is super happy this will be the last chemo and all those nasty side effects will fade away over the next couple months. Then theres the other side of us thats scared as hell without chemo in our lives, as much as our family hates chemo, it provides a odd comfort. Its complicated. Hopefully it works. For Raquel and my family, we will forever fear reoccurrence. As much as I hate to admit it, Cancer will always be part of our life. Its been an emotionally confusing few days. For now, we choose to celebrate the end of Chemo and the beginning of hope. Next up after Raquel recovers from this round of chemo is surgery #3.

Thank you all for the amazing donations.

Thank you!"


I also recently created a Go Fund Me page for Raquel and her expenses. I am NOT asking you for donations. NCKA has done more for us then anyone, I would like to share with you our story posted there, just to give you a peak into our recent lives. Maybe it will others a better look into the life of breast cancer from our perspective. I realize everyones journey is different, but reading stories from others has and still does help me. Again, I am NOT  asking you to donate anything to go fund me, for that reason I am not posting the link, just our story. If you want to just share thr link, thats awesome, just PM me.

Read below:

"It's with great pain that I sit and write this on behalf of my wife Raquel and my two girls Hailey and Marisa. I've been struggling to put these words on paper for over 2 months. It's our reality and not one I have accepted emotionally. As hard as it is for me to say, this is our story. 

After two major layoffs and a huge decrease in our income in 2011 and 2013, my wife and I began talking about a fresh start and a move out of state to Nevada, in 2014 we had to put our plans on hold, Hailey, our oldest daughter (now 8) nearly lost her life to severe bacterial pneumonia, RSV and Adenovirus. The great doctors up at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Stanford’s Lucille Packard Children's Hospital saved Hailey's life but as expected we were obviously left with some serious debt. In 2015 we sold our home of 13 years, payed down all our debt and moved to Nevada for a fresh start, and for myself, a new career.

Now in Nevada, 8 months later, my wife Raquel went in for her first ever mammogram at age 41. A week later we got a letter stating the Raquel's mammogram results were abnormal. After speaking to a nurse practitioner we were assured the results were false and to come down for a diagnostic mammogram to be safe. It was that instant we knew something was not right. Several days later we received another letter stating the findings were consistent for "multiple site invasive ductal carcinoma". This letter arrived with no phone call, no explanation, no nothing. We both felt physically sick just reading this, although nothing had been confirmed. Shortly after Raquel went in for a multiple site biopsy, the drive in that day to the doctors office, we didn't speak a word. I will never forget that feeling. We were paralyzed with fear. 10 or so years prior to this we lost my Dad to a long horrible battle with throat cancer. Unfortunately we weren't naive to the horrors of cancer. We were scared. We waited for days and days for the biopsy results, it was the most awful and emotional wait of our lives. A week or so later, July 29th 2016 I was at work, at my new job and my phone rang. I answered, it was Raquel's doctor... he told me the words I feared so much, "I'm sorry, your wife has multiple site Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Cancer" I was frozen with fear, panicked. I sat in silence for several minutes trying to respond to him. I will never forget this moment and the intense fear that came over me.  I ran behind the building to avoid being seen by my coworkers and a completely melted down and broke into tears. Soon after, I managed to jump in the car to and drive home to find my wife on the front porch of our new home in tears. We embraced each other, we were both terrified. Paralyzed with fear. After all we have 2 young girls ages 3 and 8. Were a young family. Our lives changed instantly and intense fear took us over. 

In the weeks that followed we cried, we waited, we panicked, we drove around for a entire day in a crazy scared daze, looking for a new doctor, we needed help, we needed direction, we needed answers. We felt alone and lost. After a endless wave of daily doctors appointments we finally met Raquel's surgeon. We knew Raquel had multiple site breast cancer, but that is all we knew, we didn't know to what extent. After a long anxiety filled appointment with her surgeon, we had some direction. Next up Double Mastectomy surgery, full and complete removal of both breasts. Suddenly this all became real, the seriousness of the situation was overwhelming us both. 

The days and weeks leading up to surgery were the some of toughest days of our lives thus far. Surgery day came and went, Raquel handled it very well, the following weeks were not easy. From the bloody drains to the powerful emotions. Raquel suddenly found herself fighting for her life. That's our reality. After surgery,  I spoke to the surgeon, Raquel's lymph nodes were not involved. That's the good news. The bad news is Raquel has a aggressive form of breast cancer, multiple site with a large tumor component. 

Final Diagnosis:

Stage 2, Grade III, Triple Positive (Estrogen positive (ER+) and progesterone positive (PR+) and HER2 Positive (HER2+) 

Site 1: Invasive Grade III Ductal Carcinoma, large tumor measuring 5.5 cm in maximal dimension.

Site 2: Extensive High-Grade Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS)

Thus far Raquel has had a endless schedule of doctors appointments, a double mastectomy surgery removing both breasts, a second surgery placing a port in her chest and catheter in her jugular vein, multiple CT scans and 5 of 6 rounds of intensive chemotherapy. All this while still being a Mother. 

She still has a long road ahead of her with 1 more round of intensive chemotherapy, a full year of Herceptin infusions for the HER2+ component, another major surgery for reconstruction, 6 full weeks of daily radiation and then 10 full years on a estrogen blocker, provided all goes well. These treatments cause her extreme fatigue, nausea, vomiting, hair loss, severe bone pain and more. There's no promises in cancer, all she can do is fight, eat healthy, stay strong and have hope. 

Raquel has gone through all this, while also being an amazing mother to our two young girls, she has maintained a positive outlook and has never complained. She lives a healthy lifestyle and through it all, has managed to still work 15 hrs per week through chemotherapy. Raquel is a dedicated mother to our girls, taking extra steps to maintain normalcy in our girls lives, through her fight with cancer. Through Raquel's fight, we have both missed a lot of work. We are a dual income family (and we rely on both incomes to survive) with two young girls and we are beginning to fold under the financial pressure that cancer brings. As much as it pains me do do this, I am reaching out for help. We can no longer bare the finial burden that cancer brings. We don't make a lot of money, specially with the move and career change. I've been as honest and open as I can be to give you a small peak into our world as my wife fights to retain her life and beat cancer. It's a extremely complicated and a very emotional fight for Raquel, Hailey, Marisa and myself. We need your help. Please consider making a donation to help Raquel fight, she needs to focus on her fight, not the financial burden of cancer. All this and Raquel has managed to smile throughout the entire process.

Thank you for taking a few minutes to read our story, I will continue to update you as things progress. 

Brent, Hailey and Marisa"


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