Need Help - Please?

On 1/25/2008 MelindaKay wrote:

Hi, my name is Melinda and my mother (age 72) was diognosed with
cancer 2 years ago.  I just use cancer because it started in her
uterus and spread to her colon and is pretty much everywhere in abdomen
(including specks in her liver).  When it was discovered 2 years
ago it had already incased her colon and they had to remove the colon
and had to have a colopstopcy (I don't know the spelling, but it's a
bag on the outside of her stomach that attaches to a opening in her
stomach to what's left of her colon).  She was given 3 months to
live at that time.  2 years later now she has been fighting the
cancer with chemotherapy and still maintaining her job which is the
reason why I am posting this message.  Normally my mom weighs
135-140 lbs. she now weighs 95 lbs. She is very weak but is forced to
continue to work because if she doesn't work she will have no insurance
to pay for her chemotherapy and her blood work and without that will
probably die almost immediately.  She was not working for the
whole month of December, 2007 because of complications.  Those
complications are gone now and now she's returned to work. She works
10-11 hour days, 5 days a week and her employer is now saying all
employees must work 6 days a week for awhile.  She barely
gets rested after working 5 days and she knows she cannot work 6 days -
she will die of exhaustion.  This job is really helping her to die
faster but with out insurance it will be even faster. 

Is
there anything a person at this age can do to continue her treatments
without insurance.  By the way, my mom lives in Tennessee where
she can't even get on the State's insurance program.  Please, if
anyone knows how my mom can quit work but continue treatment - I beg of
you to let me know or give me some advice.  This is tearing me up
and I I am a single mom and can't afford to pay her insurance if she
quits working.  Help!!