“It’s only one fat ball, nothing serious “, was what they told Geovanna Cruz Rodríguez in different hospitals to whom you went the first time you felt a package in her right breast.
Geovanna not only suffered a misdiagnosis where her life was endangered, but is currently facing a lack of medications in the Hospital Regional, which has led her to ask for money in the streets of port of Veracruz, because the cost of Trastuzumab exceeds 40 thousand pesos.
It was in 2013 when he noticed this anomaly, first he went to Hospital Regional, where they told him it was not a malignant tumor, to take ibuprofen and to apply warm water compresses, which was more than enough.
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In the Antorchista Health Center They told him the same thing, after consulting several doctors he decided to trust the results, until little by little the little package it began to grow to a diameter of two inches.
Again he consulted with doctors from the Hospital Tarimoya, who operated on her to remove that “fat ball”, in the operation the doctors noticed that this tumor was not a simple benign ganglion.
“When I left the operation the doctor told me that it was nothing of what she thought, that they believed they were going to remove a single piece, I (the doctor) touched the piece and it fell apart and took it out completely until everything was cleaned (.. .) that’s where I was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer, “said Geovanna.
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On June 28, 2019, he was diagnosed Cancer, after a week of studies and getting money to pay for all the supplies she needed, her right breast was removed, she says that because at that time the extinct Popular insurance It did not cover all the expenses that it required.
They were 19 lymph nodes that were removed from Geovanna of which three were thrown Cancer, one of them had exploded due to the breast biopsy that they had performed years before to detect the Cancer, but she was not detected.
TO FOLLOW WITH YOUR TREATMENT GO OUT TO ASK FOR MONEY AT STREETS
From that moment on, Geovanna’s struggle began, as she assures that sometimes the hospital did not have the medications it required to continue with the treatment.
“My husband began to paint caps and I with a cardboard next to it, to be able to bring some sustenance to the house to eat and for my medicine, for my procedure and everything that was coming to us,” she said.
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Currently and to continue with your treatment so that he does not return the Cancer, you must take three types of medications, two of which are the Anastrozole and Leuprorelin that are given through associations and another that is provided by the hospital, while Trastuzumab The value of which is more than 40 thousand pesos, you have to get it with your own means, because they do not provide it.
He had to resort to an amparo process with the hospital so that they gave him the medicine, since the Trastuzumab You have to be taking it once a month for a year, while the other two have to be for five years.
“Right now they interrupted me again because there is none, on June 16 it was my turn, but there is none, I send to ask the doctor, but they tell me that he has not arrived and while my treatment is already interrupted,” he said.
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DUE TO PANDEMIC AND LACK OF WORK YOUR HUSBAND HE GOT TO ANOTHER STATE
His husband he is a master painter, during the first months he was diagnosed with Cancer He was doing small jobs in houses, after the arrival of the health emergency his situation became complicated.
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Because I couldn’t find a job at the port of Veracruz he had to go to other states to work and thus obtain for the medicines.
“He went to the harvest, but it didn’t work out because they paid a little there in Caborca Sonora, he came to Guadalajara to work painting in a construction company with a contract, thank God and that’s how we have been coping little by little, but it’s not enough “, He said.
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He admits to being afraid and does not want to back down on his treatment, since his scans came out free of Cancer, but fears that due to this lack of drugs she is prone and that the Cancer I am back.
For going out to ask for money at streets He says that he has received different types of insult and abuse by some people who do not believe that he is sick, in addition to dealing with it Cancer faces a lack of empathy from citizens.
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He is currently requesting help to get the money and buy his medicine, so he makes available the account with 4152-3137-3523-4499 BBVA, as well as the number 22-99-19-23-64.
“I need the help, that people lend me a hand, because it is not easy to stop on a cruise and reach out and ask for help, it becomes more difficult when they insult you, many obscene things that they understand that I do not do it for pleasure, if not out of necessity, because I want to live, “he said.
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