#cancer fundraising

[musicianfiend]

Strange 90's - A Benefit Concert for Jerry Bryant

Chicago Bands Unite to Celebrate a Music Icon at the “Strange 90’s” Benefit Chicago’s legendary Metro club set the stage for a heartwarming and high-energy event on a memorable night in 2019: “Strange 90’s – A Benefit for Jerry Bryant of JBTV.” Organized by Metro, 101WKQX, and Charity Bomb, the concert brought together some of Chicago’s most celebrated musicians to honor Jerry Bryant, the host…

[apixellife]

IPIC Photo Contest by Teagan Tunwarm Via Flickr: We're opening up the I Pink I Can Sims a week early for the photography contest. This means that you can come visit, explore, and start to take pictures! Feel free to post as many pictures as you want to our socials (linktr.ee/ipinkican), but only one picture per person for the in-world contest. This contest is open to everybody and selected photos will be added to kiosks for voting. 100% of money raised goes to Strides to raise money for RL breast cancer, research, and awareness. In-world Contest Guidelines: -1 full-perm picture in-world, in a notecard and drag into the mailbox at the SLURL below -Please include your legacy name -Safe content only -Have fun! -Contest ends October 20th at midnight SLT SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/American%20Cancer%20Societ... From this landing point, you will see that there are two sims for I Pink I Can to explore with lots and lots to see -- including nature, camping, haunted houses, a corn maze, pumpkin patch, bowling alley, and so much more. I Pink I Can is a Second Life Relay for Life partnership with Linden Labs.

[rebirthgarments]

TW: Chemical w-rfare, Ab-rtion

Urgent Ask to evacuate Nara, a 🍉 disabled woman with MS who also has pancreatic cancer due to chemical w-rfare.

Support by financially contributing to her @FedUp4Palestine vetted funhnd-raizer (that I personally vetted): givebutter.com/NaraMedicalAid

+ resharing/ reposting this post!

I, Sky Cubacub- a Fed up 4 Palestine team member, have been in direct contact with Nara to get to know her and her story more over the past few days. We have become fast friends due to so many overlapping symptoms of our disabilities. Nara’s story caught my eye because I have post-viral ME/CFS which many times is a precursor to MS. I really want my disability community to show up for her to get this campaign funded that is so close to my heart so that she can continue medical treatment.

We have chatted extensively! During our chats, I found out from Nara that she had not previously had health issues until she was exposed in the white phosphorus attack in 2008. The long lasting damage and effects of phosphorus continue to compound and become more and more disabling to this day, even after 16 years.

Here is her story in her own words (edited for clarity):

“Hi I'm Nara,

I'm a cancer and multiple sclerosis patient. I need treatment, examinations, and follow-up on a regular basis, but the hospitals in which I used to follow up were bombed and the other one was turned into military barracks. All I need now is to leave Gaza for treatment, preserve my life, and live with my family in peace.

We're a family of 4, including my 12 and 7 year old children.

I had been diagnosed with a tumor in the pancreas as a result of inhaling phosphorus in a previous war. A couple years after being exposed to phosphorus, I became pregnant, and the fetus was pressing on the tumor, which drew the doctor’s attention to the cancer. My fetus was emergency aborted, and the spleen, 80% of the pancreas, and part of the small intestine were removed. I complained every now and then of a lot of pain as a result of the removal of part of the pancreas. I was having follow up care in the Turkish Friendship Hospital for hematology and tumors. But since the beginning of October, I have not been able to follow up because the hospital has turned into a military barracks.

The remaining part is talking about multiple sclerosis:

In 2018, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I had many complications, such as inflammation of the seventh nerve in the eye, the inability to walk with balance, movement with difficulty, and many symptoms. I was then required to take 12 injections every month and many medications and vitamins. I was following up at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, but unfortunately the hospital was out of service due to the war. So for a long time I have not received any injections. MS is truly difficult and it controls my life completely, and the attacks occur in many and varied ways.”

A note about her breathing apparatus:

Because people in displacement have to wait in long queues and pay to use the bathroom, Nara had started to restrict her water intake because of a UTI she never has been able to heal from. This has created a problem with raised levels of potassium, so doctors have placed her on oxygen for fear of the potassium affecting her heart.

Goals

she needs at least $15,000 to evacuate

2 adults at $5,000 each

2 children at $2,500 each

this price is subject to increase due to the cost of registration for evacuation continuing to go up

The other money will go to the cost of treatment and living costs.

Nara chooses to stay anonymous because she has had to mask her disabilities so much that only her family knows about her MS and Cancer, so we have not linked her instagram, but we are in direct contact with her and can verify that she is who she says she is! Because of this, she cannot promote her own fundraiser, so it is our job to collectively do it for her!

[Image Description: a digital illustration by @k8deciccio of Nara, a Pal-eh-stienian woman wearing a black hijab/outfit with purple highlights. She has a breathing apparatus that is bulbous that goes in her nose. Text Reads: Help Narawith Cancer and MS Treatment, She Must Evacuate with her family of 4. $30k goal givebutter.com/NaraMedicalAid . There is a QR code in the bottom right corner that goes to her support link. The @FedUp4Palestine logo is in the top left corner.]

[danahayat]

Hi, I’m Dana and I’m reaching out because I desperately need your help. I’ve been diagnosed with blood cancer and l am not getting any treatment because it’s incredibly costly and I lost everything in the jenocide!

Please every 1£ make a difference help me if you can !

@postanagramgenerator @feluka @timetravellingkitty @briarhips @ace-cat-nerd @mahoushojoe @rhubarbspring @schooloutfitideas @pcktknife @transmutationist @sawasawako

@appsa @tododeku @tododeku-keeps-me-alive @irhabiya @commissions4aid-international @wellwaterhysteria

@deepspacelove @junglejim4233 @kibumkim @neechees

@mangocheesecakes @kyra45-helping-others @7bittersweet @tortiefrancis

@toiletpotato @fromjannah @omegaversereloaded

@palestinegenocide @helpingg @helpgazachildren @helpgarotadestruida-blog @free-palestine-bitch @freepeople

[melaninnpink]

If you enjoy my blog please do me a huge favor and share this post and please donate, if you can.

[mxwhore]

Evacuation/Shelter Fundraisers

I havent been able to donate but i dont want to just ignore whats going on. Most of these fundraisers were made to evacuate families and basic neccesities, so time is crucial. if you are in a position to do so, please donate and share!

Ahmed Ziad (£10,243/£30,000)

Bilal Abed Rabou (€8,400/€80,000) Very low on funds

Amira's family (€29,130/€39,000) !! She is so close!!

Shymaa Taiser ($11,553/$50,000)

Ghazi Younis ($4,593/$50,000) Lets help them break 10k!

Nour's family ($13,742/$45,000)

Haya's family (€83,835/€100,000) Almost there!!

Ola Ferwana (€4,235/€35,000)

Hadeel Mikki (€15,920/€35,000)

Youseff's family ($6,151/$15,000)

Ahmed's family (€29,767/€45,000)

Nour Alanqar (€21,424/€40,000)

Dr. Mohammed Aldeeb (€39,914/€55,000)

Islam Al-Najjar (€1,950/€30,000)

Sohaip's family (£847/£10,000) Very low on funds

Mahmoud AlBalawi (€38,991/€85,000) Halfway there

Kareman's family ($7,272/$50,000)

Waseem Abusafi (€2,989/€15,000)

Mohammed's family (€187/€25,000) Donations protected but not vetted

Youssef Helles (€15,441/€23,000)

Ahmed Hallas (€14,006/€80,000)

Mohammad's family (€23,066/€40,000)

Ahmed Jehad ($2,898/$40,000) Low on funds

Safaa's family (€23,854/€35,000)

Mohammed Alwadiya ($3,980/$35,000)

Youssef's son (€9,827/€20,000)

Ahmed Al-Habil (€2,152/€50,000) Very low on funds

Will link a part two soon

[triangle-tumor-manifesto]

My nickname is Silver Cipher.

I am 19 years old, and I’ve been diagnosed with Stage 4 Signet Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix. My dream is to have Alex Hirsch sign my cancer journal.

Gravity Falls has been a huge help since the release of The Book of Bill, and has been a huge comfort to me during my cancer fight. It has helped me emotionally more than I can express. The idea came from one of my friends, who drove to meet me before even knowing my name. They suggested I try to get a signature from Alex Hirsch. This is just a brief summary of my story that I would love to share with you all.

I meant for this to be an incredibly put-together message, but “Nothing in life makes sense, so you might as well make nonsense!”

Ford’s fight with Bill hits so goddamn hard. Chemo has just carpet-bombed my memory to the point where I completely black-out at times. During my 72-hour straight IV drip, I wake up to finding stuff I’ve done that I would NEVER do. I wrote things that I would never write. I drew things that I would never ever draw. The most notable drawings I have done are focused around the Eye of Providence and are surrounded—from top to bottom—by code I am still deciphering. This is terrifying to me and makes me feel like a spectator in my own body. Every single time it happens, it always takes me off guard no matter how prepared I think I am…

Chemo Me VS Regular Me Art (think you can figure out which is which??? -△)

However, the reason why I’m not quite as paralyzed with fear as I was is that whenever shit hits the fan, as embarrassing as it is to admit, to comfort myself I think about Stanford Pines. I think about how at the end of a long and hard battle with something indescribably wicked, he learned to trust people and got the support he needed. The path he treaded was full of pain, blood, and tears but he made it. The survival rate for my stage of cancer is catastrophically low on paper, but 6 is my lucky number. You can guess the reason, or I seriously question how you got into Gravity Falls in the first place!

I live and breathe this show, I live and breathe what Stanford Pines has gone through. I just need to make it past Weirdmageddon.

We appendix cancer patients have this crazy surgery which is known in the medical community as the “Mother of All Surgeries.” Most surgeons refuse to attempt it because of a lack of proven studies due to how few of us there are and how little research there is. The small sample size often causes it to be considered a crazy borderline pseudoscience! But it works. I know this because every Appendix Cancer survivor I met at our Pseudomyxoma peritonei (it’s shortened to PMP) Pals group introduces themself and then says that they owe their new lengthened life to as I like to put it, “Our Surgeon Soulmate”. This is my Weirdmaggedon.

HIPEC (the aforementioned surgery, Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy) involves cutting open the sternum to the groin, scooping out every single organ that isn’t necessary for survival, filling the space with liquid chemo, and then sloshing you around a little on the table so it all sets in (like a little cancer smoothie). Then they’ll drain it all out, sew you up, and wake you up. (I drew Ford doing it while on chemo—you can see it in the Imgur link-I also have zero memories of this, and it's hilarious-you gotta laugh at the pain or you will cry) The only way to relieve the crippling pain besides exceeding a survivable dose of painkiller is to get up. You have to get up and walk—I mean laps around the ICU. I’ve done it. The laps at least. All the hundred-some people at the conference have. It hurts like crazy but the only way to get better is to fight through it. It's either fight or die.

Welp! There’s your summary of puppet hour with Silver, and my own personal metal plate.

I have the proof to back this up, as I have been living with this since my diagnosis in March. Knowing all of you, some of you may have taken “Trust No One!” to heart, which is legitimate for a post like this. This was just a brief summary of my story that I would love to share with you all. I've censored my personal information, and pictures I'm sending, as well as my face and my father's face. I'm also adding some of the art that I've done on chemo.

PROOF: https://imgur.com/a/ljb98NL

Attached is all the preliminary proof I’m willing to let anybody and everybody see. It’s a mix of identity-confirming photos, people I care about, art that I made while on chemo to help get me through it, proof of my hospital stays and pictures of me during hospital chemo, as well as a picture of myself on chemo simply so you can see how much it takes out of me from those early on photos of me from my tumor removal surgery to today. That was round six. Now I’m in the middle of round twelve: my last one. Before my final battle with Cipher, I’m hoping I can get my personal chemo Journal signed by Hirsch, at the very least. And if the guy wants to join the stream and hear my pretty decent Ford impression, well…who am I to complain? Alex if you're reading this, even if you can’t sign my book, I’d love for you to read the journal entry I wrote addressed to you. I sent my friend Alia to NYCC with a cut-out journal page for you to sign, with this letter to be read, but it didn’t end up working out. Even so, it would mean so much to me if it made it to you somehow.

Hopefully, this gets a shitload of views and reposts that find their way to Alex. As a bonus (some of you are going to adore this) I am going to link a Twitch fundraiser for Appendix Cancer in the post as well, and do a live stream of an ENTIRE reading of a Mystery Fanfic with me as Ford and an absolutely amazing Bill impersonator- @weasel!!! @_<;;! I bet you are so curious, knowing this server. “Come on Fordsy, don’t you want to take my hand? Just say the word!”

Art done by @🐔mother hen goblin🐔

We had this art piece made to promote the stream! Heed the warnings! Also, depending on the VA's endurance, I will also host an open mic for people to share their love of Gravity Falls and their reasoning for helping me.

The Twitch stream will begin on △ 10/26/2024 6:00PM EST.

△ If you cannot make this-never fear! It will all be recorded for your future viewing pleasure. This exact time is subject to change, please check back the day of to make sure that this stays the same.

Twitch Stream Link: triangle_tumor - Twitch

Donation Link: https://pmppals.net/silvers-triangle-tumor/…

I hope to see as many of you as possible present in the stream. This fanfiction means so much to so many of us. Both Bill and Ford's relationship in canon and especially in this fic encapsulates the visceral horror, suffering, and trauma that comes with going through chemo and beating the ⭐⚡#💀＄out of the triangle tumor. I am also getting OFFICIALLY endorsed by r/Gravity Falls as well as PMP Pals (An Official Appendix Cancer Organization) for this fundraiser.

I cannot tell you how absolutely hyped I am for everything going down.

Pleasepleaseplease join the stream if you can, and for SURE blow up this Reddit post! Thank you all so much for being a part of this and helping me through my fight.

Ad Astra Per Aspera

Silver Cipher △

P.S. FUCK Cancer

SOCIALS/OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Triangletumor

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/triangletumormanifesto/?next=%2F

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/triangle_tumor

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TriangleTumorManifesto

[pourover]

EMERGENCY: help family effected by cancer avoid eviction by the 8th

my best friends family has been struggling since his mothers cancer returned last year, even though there's 2 people in the house working full time and they're on food stamps, they've still been struggling to meet rent and bills that now they've received an eviction for april 8th unless they can come up with $5,000. they want to move somewhere more affordable and do more to help their selves but that takes time and money that they don't have. i'm making this post to buy them and their pets more time. please share even if you can't donate, this is an absolute emergency. donation options CA $zonkdiggitydog pa/y/pal zonkeddogdeity@gmail.com gofundme (approx the first 5k is from august and has been spent, this is an old gofundme that has been extended to reflect the current problem ) ko-fi zonkdiggitydog twitter post to share (by the friend affected)

[jocula-trixie]

not an update i want to be making, but tuesday, march 26th, my aunt sandy lost her battle with cancer. at this point, all of the fundraising will go towards covering the cost of her arrangements, paying any remaining medical bills, and making sure my cousin has enough money to get by.

any donations would be greatly appreciated, as well as reblogs to help spread the word.

[gdbatbitch]

TL;DR Please, please. I’m at the absolute end of my rope and can use all the help I can get. Also, just putting out there for those that prefer alternates: my PayPal is dextra.hoffman@gmail.com, Venmo is @Dextra-Hoffman, and CashApp is $DextraDawn. Thanks y’all.

I wish I had the spoons to talk about how horrible I have been feeling the last few weeks in real time. Especially the last 3 weeks. You don’t realize how much one little gland will mess up your entire existence until it’s defective or gone. I’ve been without my thyroid for 10 months now. And I’m still suffering the repercussions of it. 

My biggest issue is my TSH levels. I’ve had to have dosage adjustments twice since January, and each time it results in weeks of adjustment time, and a good portion of that, I’ve been completely laid out because of being unable to function. The symptoms can vary, but generally involve massive fatigue, nausea, hot flashes and cold spells/sweats that I’m not able to control and barely able to combat, dehydration, weakness, and just having that feeling you get with a high fever and a flu where you feel half in and half out of reality and not sure if you’re actually alive or you’re a ghost. 

Also because these hormones think they’re that special, they also affect my mental health by spiking my adrenaline levels and triggering my anxiety. My anxiety alone can shut me down for days. It’s been well documented. So the physical symptoms would trigger my anxiety. I have a really high pain tolerance, but sickness not so much. And I have never felt sicker in my life than I have in the last month. So not only was I feeling like I was dying, I was terrified the entire time.

I’ve not gone into great detail about it openly because it was so scary, and I know when I’m in panic mode I can’t really trust my own mind to determine the seriousness of a situation. So I kept it quiet, at least quiet for me. 

Of course, all of this has completely destroyed my plans of getting back to work and out of this poverty rut I’ve been in for months. I had a job lined up, but the start date was right in the middle of my being incapacitated. I tried to work with the company to push back my start date, but that didn’t happen. I’m in the midst of interviewing for a job that would be absolutely perfect, but I’m still waiting for next steps on their part. Aside from those, as anyone currently seeking a job will tell you, it’s abysmal out there. I’ve applied for over a hundred jobs in the last 4 months and I’ve barely gotten any responses. 

I’ve been asked if I’m going to be doing art commissions, and if I were more capable, sure. I’d be silly not to try. But I’ve not been anything close to capable for weeks. I’ve only been back to 100% for a few days now, and even that has been sketchy. So I’m putting a pin in that for now, at least until I can knock out a sketch or two to knock the rust off. 

I was hoping to be done with fundraising, it’s so nerve-racking. But right now, my survival is in peril. I just submitted a request for what will be my last unemployment payout. It wasn’t much, but it was barely keeping me afloat. After that, I’m kinda screwed unless I can figure something out. 

I still haven’t made rent for August, my car payment is late, I’ve got bills up to my ears and I’m just worried that I’m not going to have those things very very soon if I can’t keep up. If I can at least hit the goal on the fundraiser, that can keep me going until I can get back to work (fingers crossed). 

I’ve been struggling with asking for help for a while now because I feel like I’ve been holding my hat out for far too long, but I don’t really have a choice anymore. I’ve also been struggling with a lot of internalized ableism as well because I know I’m disabled and shouldn’t push myself as hard as I do. But that’s a rant for another time.

Please, please. I’m at the absolute end of my rope and can use all the help I can get. Also, just putting out there for those that prefer alternates: my PayPal is dextra.hoffman@gmail.com, Venmo is @Dextra-Hoffman, and CashApp is $DextraDawn. Thanks y’all.

[florwal]

my mom had apr surgery in july and now she’s back on chemo again until february. she recently had to kick my abusive dad out because things got really bad but now we’re financially struggling. she needs a full time caretaker (me) but because of that i’m unable to work right now and i can’t afford to support myself, my mom, and my younger siblings. thankfully my grandparents have been letting us live with them but my mom has a lot of expensive medical things she needs to survive (prescriptions, ostomy bags, etc.) and i’m feeling really helpless right now. any donation or reblog would help out so much. my mom had a gofundme earlier this year but my dad literally took all of the money for himself so i set this new one up that goes straight to her.

[sailoreuterpe]

Hey, so guess who has a financial emergency to share for HERSELF for once? Please donate if you can and share regardless. I'm considering getting a second job but I'd like not to work 60+ hour weeks again if I can help it. I can also do things like editing or writing fanfiction for donations; feel free to suggest other compensation.

[butterflyinthewell]

🆘 My irl best friend needs help. 🆘

I’ve been friends with Elizabeth since we were 10.

She is currently fighting ovarian cancer and the medical bills are piling up.

Late in June her life turned upside down with a full hysterectomy and a bunch of health problems after. She lives in Las Vegas and can’t afford to buy a car. She travels to medical appointments by Lyft, which is eating into her wallet. Before cancer she was employed and active, and now she had to give up her job because she can barely walk across her house without pain or shortness of breath. She’s waiting on disability, but it’s taking forever and her husband’s salary is barely enough to survive on.

If she can’t go to appointments, she can’t get her chemo and imaging done. Trying to walk there results in her developing ascites and she ends up hospitalized to get it drained. It’s very painful for her.

Can you PLEASE help? Any amount is helpful. I’ve been begging on her behalf on Twitter for weeks and there’s barely anything, so I hope to get something here.

Here’s photos of us back when I visited her in 2021. (I visited her again in July 2024, but she was sick and had to be in the hospital, and I didn’t want to take pictures of her sick and miserable.)

Please reblog! This will get eaten out of tags because of the link, and I need eyes on this.

https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/medical-billsbills

[themusicsweetly]

This year, I'm taking part in World Child Cancer's 60K For Kids With Cancer fundraiser with Team Outlander!! Please help support me and this incredible organization if you can, and please spread the word 🧡

Along with Diane (dianeb31 // Twitter), we will also be at PaleyFest and NYCC on October 16th and October 17th selling official WCC merch: lanyards, buttons, enamel pins, and bracelets!! We'll also have exclusive Outlander stickers made by Serena (charmingdearie // Twitter). All proceeds go towards WCC's life saving mission. Come find me and Diane at either of these events and we'll be sure to hook you up! If you make a donation to my page above ahead of time, all you have to do is show me your receipt when we meet.

See you there!! Which swag are you hoping to take home with you?

[danahayat]

"I am Dana, I need your help!"

I’m a 28-year-old woman suffering from a serious illness. My treatment stopped over a year ago due to the war, and now I'm enduring severe pain. I need your support to continue my treatment.

@postanagramgenerator @feluka @timetravellingkitty @briarhips @acesthwtics-blog @mahoushojoe @rhubarbspring @schoolhater98 @pcktknife @transmutationsquare @sawasawako

@appsa @tododeku @tododeku-keeps-me-alive @irhabiya @commissions4aid-international @palestinegenocide @palestinianliberator @palestine-info-uncensored @palestine @palestinesfinest @wellwaterhysteria

@deepspaceboytoy @junglejim4233 @kibumkim @neechees @mangocheesecakes @kyra45-helping-others @7bittersweet @tortiefrancis @toiletpotato @fromjannah @omegaversereloaded

[buzzy-bee-13]

While you're here, I would really appreciate if you would take one minute for this family's fundraiser which is near to my heart. Samer, @samerpal, Shorouq and their three children are fundraising to escape the war and have only raised $1000 euros out of their $30,000 euro target.

Even five euros would help them. 💗🙏 If you can't donate, I would really appreciate if you shared. Thank you and hope you have a nice day ❤️