Ella's Thyroid Cancer Fundraiser

$2,500/$2,500 raised for my wife to accompany me to my cancer treatments. Please consider donating to my wife’s travel funds if you can so that I can have my only support at my surgery in the US. I have posted on tiktok, instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook. I am doing all I can to get this out. I know it may not seem as urgent as me getting care but I was able to buy my plane ticket and my expenses are funded. Now all I want is for my wife to be with me. She is my number one support, my family, and the only person in the world that makes me calm when things are hard. The idea of doing this without her makes me panicky and beyond sad. 

So far, we've raised 2,009 dollars for her. We only need 491 dollars more!   I'm flying out on the 23rd, and my wife will likely have to fly out after me. I'm only going to be in my hometown for treatments for 1.5 months, so I'd like to have my support person there for that whole time.

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ELLA’S THYROID CANCER SURGERY FUND 

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$2,500/$2,500 raised for my flight/food

$774.77/$2,500 raised for my wife to accompany me 

UPDATE: My airline funds have been raised on Facebook. However, I still need to raise money for my wife’s ticket and visa/passport so she can come with me. She is Brazilian, but we are married.  Hello Tumblr! My name is Ella. I’m 23 years old and I have thyroid cancer in both sides of my thyroid. I don’t currently know if it has spread or not. I am an American citizen who is currently overseas in Brazil. I discovered this cancer on accident when trying to figure out why my throat was swollen and why I had a lump in my neck. 

Unfortunately, I cannot afford the cost of a plane ticket back to the US. It would cost 2,065 dollars to go to Missoula, Montana from Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil as a round-way ticket. That’s what I am raising money for, as well as for food while I am there. My housing is already covered (I will stay with family or friends). 

The reason I need to go back to the US is to get complete thyroid removal surgery and radioactive treatment afterward to check for cancer spread. My health insurance in the US covers my treatment 100%, but if I were to stay in Brazil, I would owe over 4,000 dollars in treatment costs. The thyroid surgery alone is R$19,400. I also do not feel safe getting my life-saving surgery here where I have seen very unsafe medical conditions.  

As I receive donations, I will be updating my post with the amount that has been donated on several sources (here on Tumblr, Facebook, and Tiktok). I will provide screenshot proof of my bank account after all the funds have been raised and sent to me, as well as photos of me after surgery and on my flights. 

If I make any money over 2,500 it will be used to bring my wife on an emergency tourist visa to the US to support me in all my medical appointments. I love her and wish she could go with me, but I cannot currently afford to pay her plane ticket or visa application or emergency passport (around 2,500-3,000 dollars for all her expenses). I will also be needing to pay our rent in Brazil, which I will do through limited work hours at my job (15 hours a week from home). 

Please share this post if you are unable to donate. It would be a blessing for me to be able to get help sooner rather than later. 

Note: I cannot create a GoFundMe at this time due to not being in the US (VPNs don’t work unfortunately), so I can only accept donations via my paypal donation link below. However, 100% of the donations will go to me and my fundraiser. I also have a Facebook fundraiser here 

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