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Meet our Faces of The Giving Gig 2021, 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.
Would you like to support patients like Ian, Heather, Angela, Karen and Dennis? You can make a difference. Offer your support in the form of a Give-A-Gift, and your name will appear on the video screens inside the White River State Park Amphitheater during The Giving Gig on June 19.
I went home and showed my wife, and she immediately started crying, That little gesture – of handing someone a gift card – has such a huge impact. It helped us out tremendously. The fact that you have strangers dipping in their own pockets, giving up their own money and sharing with other people… The words ‘thank you’ aren’t enough.
Ian, a sheet metal worker, was at a construction site when he received the call from Community Health Network to come in as soon as he could. He had recently gone in for a biopsy and knew immediately this was not good news.
“I was absolutely terrified,” he said. “I had no idea what I was facing, no idea what I was getting into.”
Cancer treatment is difficult enough and to layer on top of that what each individual may be going through in their personal lives, sometimes it’s the little things that mean so much. Maybe a gift card might not mean much to one person but to another it could mean whether or not they can feed their family. Relieving someone's stress in one area allows them to focus their energies on other things.
When Heather was diagnosed with breast cancer in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, she was overwhelmed with a myriad of emotions.
“I remember being a ball of nerves,” she said. “I was unsure of what to expect, and I was anxious about what treatment would consist of and how COVID-19 would affect the process. It was an emotional appointment for me. There was so much going through my head I had a difficult time focusing on what was being said.”
However, Heather distinctly remembers that the care team was incredible patient and thorough in their explanation of the plan and next steps.
Everybody went above and beyond. They were so sweet. It’s like a dream, a fog, a haze. Everyone was wonderful.
“It was a lot.” That’s how Angela describes how she felt during her first appointment at Community Oncology Center - Kokomo for cervical cancer in December of 2019. Her family, several of whom are nurses, were by her side and there to help care for her.
“I just remember the doctor’s mouth moving, but I couldn’t hear what he was saying,” she says. “I was so glad my family was there to help – I couldn’t have done it without them.”
When Debbie came in and gave me that gift card, I couldn’t believe it. Things were getting tough for us financially so it was the perfect time. It relieved the pressure from the financial strain of it all.
When Karen was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic melanoma in 2020, she felt stunned.
“I felt overwhelmed,” she said. “I wasn’t fully aware of what all was happening.”
Because of her treatment regimen and its effects, Karen had to leave her job as a customer service representative at Comcast, where she had worked for 30 years.
“When I first started, there were only thirteen channels!” she explained.
Community means a lot to me because Community has helped me out tremendously. I get excited to just go see my care team at the cancer center. They mean the world to me.
In March of 2014, Dennis was taken by ambulance to Community Hospital East. There, he learned he had Stage IV liver carcinoma.
“When I was in the hospital, I didn’t know how bad my situation was at first,” he said. “My wife was there to support me and take care of me. I was more in a daze than anything.”
Dennis’ wife Yvette, whom he calls the love of his life, was understandably distraught. Both Dennis and Yvette lost their parents to cancer.
“I cried,” she said. “He was strong the whole time. He told me, ‘I’m not going anywhere. We have more to do.’”
