{"id":187638,"date":"2026-05-08T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187638\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:30:07","slug":"life-saving-medivac-needed-for-erika-forsberg-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187638\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-saving Medivac needed for Erika Forsberg cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman\u2019s dying wish has turned into a nightmare for her and her family.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh woman Erika Forsberg has terminal adrenal cancer and her dying wish was to take a trip to Europe before her time comes.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of family, friends and the community, Erika was able to travel overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, while she was there, Erika had to be hospitalized with double pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently to ill to travel commercially from Rome and her family is trying to charter a Medivac plane to get her home to see her specialist.<\/p>\n<p>The family has canceled the remainder of the trip after two days.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-erika-forsberg-in-her-final-months?attribution_id=sl:d9ca1961-98e5-4382-840d-9a785f9e09e0&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1778180926&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_ta-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> has been established to help with the cost of the charter plane.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re able to help, you can donate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-erika-forsberg-in-her-final-months?attribution_id=sl:d9ca1961-98e5-4382-840d-9a785f9e09e0&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1778180926&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_ta-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman\u2019s dying wish has turned into a nightmare for her and her family. Pittsburgh woman Erika Forsberg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83688,6728,10063,73,75,74,83689],"class_list":["post-187638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-erika-forsberg","tag-fundraising","tag-gofundme","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-terminal-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}