My name is Malvika Sitlani, and today I am reaching out with a humble request to help my mother, Jenifer Sitlani, who is fighting cancer for the third time in her life.
Jenifer is 58 years old and has faced her journey with breast cancer with immense courage and grace. What began as right breast cancer slowly turned into years of surgeries, scans, treatments, and countless hospital visits. Even after completing multiple lines of treatment, her fight is far from over.
Today, my mother is living with metastatic breast cancer, meaning the disease has spread beyond the breast.
Her latest PET-CT scan shows cancer involvement in multiple bones including the spine, ribs, and femur, enlargement of the liver with multiple lesions, fluid accumulation in the pelvis, and the ongoing need for constant monitoring, imaging, and treatment. While there is no recurrence at the breast surgery site, the spread to vital organs and bones means her treatment must continue aggressively to control the disease and preserve her quality of life.
This journey is not just physically painful for her. It has been emotionally and financially exhausting for our entire family.
As her daughter, I am currently the sole earning member supporting a family, and while I do everything in my capacity to keep her treatment going, the costs have reached a point where I cannot do this alone anymore.
What Her Life Looks Like Today
Her life now follows a quiet but relentless cycle of chemotherapy, weakness, hope, recovery, and then chemotherapy again. These 21-day chemotherapy cycles are not optional. They are what keep the disease under control and give her more time with the people she loves.
But each cycle comes with physical exhaustion, daily side effects that slowly wear her down, and emotional strength she has to gather again and again. Along with this, the medical expenses continue to rise with every passing month.
Why We Are Asking for Help
Advanced cancer care is continuous and expensive. My mother’s treatment requires regular PET-CT and MRI scans, chemotherapy every 21 days, oncology consultations and medications, supportive care for pain, liver involvement, and mobility, and close monitoring to prevent rapid progression.
Despite doing everything in her power, and despite my best efforts to manage the financial responsibility alone, the burden has now become overwhelming for our family.
The goal amount of the campaign may be higher than the attached estimates to address and aid the post-hospitalization expenses/contingencies including but not limited to prolonged medication, diagnostics, rehabilitation therapies, and follow-up doctor visits/consultations which vary from disease to disease.