MILLBROOK, Ala. (WSFA) – One year ago today, we introduced you to a Millbrook husband and wife who both received stage four cancer diagnoses within the same week.
Today, they’re still fighting, but the fight gets more difficult by the day.
A year ago, Wendy Wilson shared she was facing stage four breast cancer, her fourth cancer battle, just days after her husband Kevin was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. Kevin is now in remission, but Wendy’s battle continues.
“Over the last nine months I have been going through chemotherapy,” Wilson said. “Back in March, the drugs stopped working. My chemo was no longer being effective, so we decided to go ahead and have surgery. So I had a double mastectomy done. They were hoping that they were going to get a majority of my cancer when they had surgery; however, they did not.”
Wilson has seven lymph nodes under her arms that are showing cancer, multiple cancerous tumors across her chest, and several cancerous lesions across her stomach.
“I went to my oncologist this week and we are going to start a new drug on Monday,” she said. “I start a drug called Enhertu.”
Wilson says she’s running out of options. She has an appointment next week at MD Anderson– a highly respected cancer center in Texas-, but it’s out of network.
“Majority of the money that we already made has gone to my chemo that I’ve already had because my cancer, my insurance didn’t cover my cancer drugs before,” she said. “So anything would help. I mean, and if you can’t, I understand prayers. Just pray for me, please.”
To the people who donated to her treatments last year, she says she is incredibly grateful.
“Without that, you know, I wouldn’t have been able to pay my bills, and I wouldn’t have been able to pay for the cancer drugs that I did pay for,” she said.
In the face of adversity, she says she will continue fighting until she can’t any longer.
“I can’t give up,” she said. “I can’t let my kids see me give up. I just, it’s just not in me.”
If you would like to donate to help support Wilson through her cancer journey, you can do so at her GoFundMe page.
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