Waves of Love for Sarah

My long time friend, Sarah, has very invasive breast Cancer.  She has started her rounds of Chemotherapy and is beginning to loose chunks of hair already.  I have created this fundraising opportunity so that I can help her family when her health declines in the 2nd round of treatments and she is unable to work.  

In my support and solidarity of Sarah, I am fundraising for Sarah and will be shaving my hair in the coming weeks as part of an effort to raise awareness and support for Sarah and her battle with cancer. This is not just a personal challenge, but also an opportunity to make a real difference in my dear friend's life.  The highest donor(s) will have the opportunity to share in this experience with me!  Please support me in helping Sarah by donating and sharing information this fundraising event.   

Here is her story:

Started back in August with a routine mammogram, a second opinion for diagnostic imaging and a biopsy with results that nobody expects to hear…10/8/24 Had a day of work scheduled and drove separate from Eric. “The biopsy showed cancer cells, Invasive Ductal carcinoma, Triple Negative Breast Cancer”. How do you tell your parents you have cancer? You sob through the words. Lots of cuss words that day and cried, cried and cried some more. Then I had to tell my kids. Seeing their heart ache and trying to help them understand when I didn't completely comprehend it myself.

10/9/24 Put up the shutters and prepared for Hurricane Milton, not knowing that we'd be hit by an F1 tornado that afternoon. How is this happening? In the meantime the life of my 91 year old Grandma was coming to an end.

10/13/24 Laura Jean Dluzak passed, comfortable with Hospice and surrounded by love. She was my last grandparent. In the meantime, port placement for chemotherapy, PET scan to be sure it is only breast cancer 🙄 Plan? 12 weeks of T/C/K. 4 infusions over another 12 weeks of A/C. Surgery will follow and then radiation... Almost a year if all goes as planned! Nobody prepares you for the emotional rollercoaster/s show that the diagnosis and the treatments create! Fatigue, sadness, less sleep (thanks to steroids), appetite changes.

My support system is top notch! Eric, my kids, my MOM is a rockstar! My Dad. My brother. My forever friends, my hive, the basketball moms/dads and boys, coworkers, and those I know are there at a moment's notice when I will need them. I've been sharing. It just doesn't come up in conversation. So here I am, week 8 of 24. Hair is very thin, but I'm lucky to have had so much hair to lose in the first place. It's been cut short. Throwing clumps full of hair in the garbage everyday.

What can you do? Hug me. Say nothing. Just hug me. The connection does wonders for my soul. Send me your best, most healing energy🩷 

There is so much more to say and tell of this journey. I'm an open book. I like to educate as well because I knew nothing until this adventure began. I still don't know it all, but sometimes less is more.