A single mother battling stage four breast cancer is raising money for specialist treatment abroad.
Ewa Kazmierczak, 45, from Bankside, needs £34,000 to cover the cost of ground-breaking treatment available in Istanbul.
The mother-of-one, who has raised £16,600 so far, said: “I think it’s amazing after just four-and-a-half days. I’m really hoping I can go as soon as possible for treatment.”
Her son is just a few days away from his fifth birthday. “He needs his mother,” she said.
Ewa’s fight with breast cancer began in 2020 when received her first diagnosis, with her son just six-months-old at the time.
She discovered it was stage four and had spread to her liver but was declared cancer-free after receiving treatment, and surgery to remove the tumour.
The cycle of being re-diagnosed, increasing medication strength, getting the all-clear, only to be rediagnosed, has continued since.
In September 2024, the cancer returned, this time in her lymph nodes, with December scans showing its progression.
Ewa says her only “glimmer of hope” is a clinic in Turkey specialising in stage four cancers.
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Each treatment cycle costs €5,000 and Ewa is expecting to need six, plus money for travel expenses.
Ewa, who used to work at the Natural History Museum, said the last four years had prevented her from working and gutted her bank account.
“As a single mum going through all of it on your own is financially unthinkable,” she said. “This country is very generous and I get all the benefits possible but what I cannot do is afford supplements and the best diets.”
“You cannot get a loan, you cannot get a credit card, you’re completely out of the system. I cannot travel to Poland to see my family because I cannot get travel insurance,” she continued.
Ewa dreams of regaining her health to care for her five-year-old son and pursue a future helping others through her studies in conscious parenting.
Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fundraising-for-medical-treatment-for-stage-4-cancer
All our very best wishes to Ewa on her journey back to health.
But what a sad indictment, against successive Gov.ts, that she has to raise funding, and leave the UK, to gain treatment.
Perhaps, if our Red & Blue Gov.ts weren’t so fond of ‘Splashing The Cash’ … Our Cash (currently £13.3 Billion) on OverSeas Aid, she would be able to avoid all the Unnecessary Travel & Stress?
But then, of course, Ewa cannot arrange the ‘Photo Opportunities & Glad-Handing’ that gives our Vainglorious Muppets the chance to Strut The World Stage, And Bask In (the purchased) Adulation.