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Christmas help needed for families battling cancer!!!

Christmas help needed for families battling cancer!!!

Christmas help needed for families battling cancer!!!  Please read stories, I have included links below. I want to share with everybody why our Angel Tree program was established. Last year (June 2012) I started chemo, over time the chemo gradually wore on me making many things in life more challenging.  I somehow made it through our foundation’s first event last year (Oct. 2012) and then the holidays were right around the corner.  In November I ended up in the hospital with a blood clot, had multiple infections, extreme fatigue, nausea, severe stomach issues, high fevers, etc….  Basically it is like you have the flu almost every day of your life (side effects vary depending on treatment).  Last winter God opened my eyes for the first time during my 17 years of battling cancer. I finally truly understood what this disease does to people and their families.  All my life I never could understand why people chose to give up their fight against cancer, but I now understood (first 3 times I had cancer it was surgery and radiation only).  Cancer is an everyday battle and from one day to the next you don’t know what to expect.  Without my family I don’t know that I would have the strength to fight this. I went from superwoman to super sick and last year was the first time I couldn’t do it all.  For Christmas we normally had 25-50 people over, our tree went up the weekend after thanksgiving, entire house was decorated the same weekend, every person that was with us for Christmas received a gift, everything wrapped like it came from a department store, etc… And last year...