Bev
Spangler
Diagnosis: Lung Cancer
December 21, 2023
Treatment:
Metabolic, Mitochondrial, Immune Therapies
Will You Help Bev Heal Cancer?
It's such a bummer that Bev has lung cancer, which is also in her lymph nodes. Yet she’s got effective cutting-edge treatments which are already working! And… they are not covered by insurance.
Bev's Words
“How many feelings can I have at once?!
Amazed and stunned at the diagnosis, even 3 months in. Afraid and impatient for the medicines to work quickly. Grateful for so many effective medicines, all low-toxicity. Tired and frightened and yet strangely, deeply persevering and hopeful. I do not quit;
Asking for help sucks. At least for me. Yet I want to live.
So, I swallow my pride, get brave and bold, and go for it. And how can you ever thank someone enough for supporting you in living? Well, I’ll spend my life trying, that’s all I know.
Deepest, deepest gratitude, Bev.
We are asking for help in paying for the medical expenses which will save her lungs, her lymph, her life. We hope! With stage 3 cancer, time is of the essence. Initial goal: 30k.
April Update: Time for Track 2. More Powerful Meds.
April 14, 2024
Hello everyone, from “Team Bev”!
The track 1 metabolic meds worked at first, but now may have been outpaced by her tumors’ growth pathways or speeds, so we step up the intensity of medicines: its integrative chemo time now, what we could call Track 2.
She's already taken a blood test which tells which exact meds her tumor cells will respond to. The exact timetable and quantities of chemos tba - within a couple of weeks. Same for the meds acting as supportive measures (these are often natural meds which mitigate chemo side effects).
She'll have a lot of appointments first to register as a new patient at a local Chicago clinic. She'll likely lose time at jobs, so she'll have lost wages. She'll be tired, maybe more skinny, maybe lose hair, all the normal stuff.
New updated cost estimates will be forthcoming, but what is initially known, firsthand from the clinic, are the upfront costs of around 1500$ in new doctors' appts with at least one new lab.
Then they estimate subsequent labs between $5000-7000.
Then during chemo itself, there are the supportive measures, performed post-infusions: starting at $225 per IV, plus other measures to be prescribed will have expenses too.
And guess what: these are all out of pocket. So please help and we thank you so much. If you can't donate please please SHARE THE LINK! International friends: can use PayPal if you want to donate, at Beverly Spangler @bee0317, and text Bev via WhatsApp.
Bev’s Treatment Plan
Track 1: Slow and Steady
This is meant to work over months. Expenses are in the hundreds to thousands. This is the track we are fundraising for right now.
Here are some highlights:
- Medicines: $600/mo
Bev's ongoing medicines include Stromectol Vermox, and Andazole, to name a few. - Intravenous chemo medicines: $4500/mo
- Doctors: $825/mo
These are Bev's many doctor consultations and medical tests. - Medical trip: $10,500
In June Bev travels to California to meet with her metabolic oncologist. - Strict Food: $500/mo
Bev follows a very strict organic, mostly plant-based, healthy proteins and fats. Cancer starves on these foods, but it is costly.
Bev is underemployed during her treatment, and every little bit helps.
Track 2: Fast Track
Treatments are extremely effective, quite rapid, but not surprisingly, very expensive ($200k).
We are holding off on this track, hoping that Slow Track is all Bev needs.
How You Can Help
Thank you for considering donating to her medical treatments. And if at this time you are unable, would you please consider sharing this link with your friends, family, social circle or colleagues? Cancer will touch 50% of us, so you never know who will be moved by Bev‘s journey.
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Here is more about my journey over this and my previous cancer treatment.