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Meet our Faces of The Giving Gig 2024, men and women who have benefited from Community cancer care and the Oncology Patient Assistance Fund, as they share their stories of courage, strength and perseverance.
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“We needed the help, because we just get our Social Security income and every little bit helps. We got help at food pantries, too, but sometimes we ran out of food, and the gift cards were a blessing.”
On Friday, July 9, 2021, Helen, a retired Perry Township and Polly Panda school teacher, received the news that she had stage IV colon cancer.
That following Monday, her husband Ervin decided to retire from Bose McKinney Evans, where he had worked for five years. He made that decision to support his wife of 28 years and be by her side for every appointment and every treatment she faced in the years to come.
Helen started chemotherapy in August of 2021, always arriving with a smile, a positive attitude, and sometimes gifts. Her caregivers soon accepted that every visit would include a generous hug, something Helen offers to anyone who talks with her. Once months of chemotherapy had concluded, Helen received a microwave liver ablation in December 2021 and was hospitalized at Community Hospital East for 11 days.
“The ladies on the fourth floor took care of me when I had surgery; they are my angels,” Helen says.
“We used the cards for gas and food at Walmart. I don’t know what we would do. It’s like something happens at a special time. When I get that gift card, it’s happened when we were really short.”
With her husband and mother by her side, Kerry sat in an exam room at Community MD Anderson Cancer Center – Anderson to learn the results of her most recent mammogram. Rana Hawamdeh, MD, a medical oncologist, and her nurse navigator, Melissa Musselman, entered the room to share that Kerry had been diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer.
As the news was being shared, Melissa held Kerry’s hand.
“Finding out I had cancer was the worst thing to hear, and she held my hand like we were friends versus being an employee,” Kerry said.
“I’m on long-term disability and make forty percent of my wages, so the money we saved from those generous gifts and gestures went toward out-of-pocket medical expenses. This support took so much pressure off of the family finances and were able to keep us focused on the cancer treatments."
A registered nurse for 34 years, Richard K. says he feels blessed to be a part of the Community Health Network family for the past three and a half years after moving to the area from Fort Wayne.
In September of 2021, Richard noticed he began feeling more tired than usual. He visited his primary care physician, Stephanie Foster, MD, who ordered extensive lab work, but nothing was found. Shortly thereafter, he began to lose a lot of weight with no effort and still felt fatigued, making his twelve-hour shifts more difficult to work.
In early 2022, he again visited Dr. Foster who, in partnership with Ernest Asamoah, MD, an endocrinologist, continued to investigate Richard’s weight loss and rising A1C levels. Results of a CT scan came back with the results – stage IV pancreatic cancer. At this time, he had lost 85 pounds.
The next day, Richard was scheduled with Radhika Walling, MD, an oncologist with Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center. They met and developed a plan.
“We are super grateful for the help we received because it came at time when we really needed it.”
Maggie is the proud owner of RMY’s Restaurant, open since 1986 to serve her family’s soul food recipes. According to her daughter, Yolanda, the restaurant is the longest standing Black-owned business in Fort Wayne.
In 2016, Yolanda was working alongside her mother and noticed she seemed unusually tired. After having a conversation, Maggie shared that she wasn’t feeling well and had also found some swollen lumps on her neck and back.
Following an exam and tests, Maggie was diagnosed in Fort Wayne with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
With Maggie living alone in Fort Wayne, and Yolanda living in Indianapolis, the family decided to move Maggie into Yolanda’s home and seek care at Community MD Anderson Cancer Center – South.
"Wayne was nothing but liquids, when not using his feeding tube. When I got sick, I was also on nothing but liquids. We received four gift cards that we would use to buy protein drinks. We also used them to buy frozen fruits so I could make us smoothies. We are so grateful!
In November of 2022, Wayne was having trouble swallowing food, so he made an appointment with his family physician. Following an exam, his physician ordered an esophageal dilation, a procedure that allows a surgeon to dilate, or stretch, a narrowed area of the patient’s esophagus.
During the treatment, Benjamin Chiu, MD, a surgeon at Community Howard Regional Health, found a tumor.
Wayne, who served Howard County for 33 years and retired as a deputy sheriff, started radiation to treat the stage IV tumor in January of 2023.
One night that same January, Susan woke up with severe abdominal pain. “So, I didn’t know I was sick, and I had symptoms but didn’t think about them,” Susan said. “We had a lot going on, but I knew something was wrong.”
Following a CT scan, a physician informed Susan that she had a small bowel obstruction, because the scan showed she had tumors in her abdomen.
Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Susan was referred to Annette Moore, MD, medical oncologist, who developed a treatment plan that would include six months of chemotherapy.
