Dear beloved friends, family and community of Dafna Laurie,

As you may already know, Dafna has overcome and cleared several small ovarian cancer tumors and a brain tumor in the past 8 years. She is currently working on clearing a spread of cells to her brain, neck and abdominal lymph nodes.

As a mother, wife, daughter, sister, practitioner, and friend to many, we know that together we can support Dafna as she gracefully and successfully heals all of this. She has been there for all of us, and this is our opportunity to support her in her time of need.

As you can imagine, Dafna is strong, positive and determined to win this game!

Dafna is avidly investigating and investing in both regular and alternative treatment options in order to create the most excellent and successful treatment plan possible.

This many-year journey to overcome these recurring cancer episodes, plus the road she currently faces, is very financially expensive - as you can probably imagine!

Getting a diagnosis like this brings so many gigantic challenges. Finances is one area that we can all easily help, with the simple punch of a button. Just share what you comfortably can. Let's do it!

Dafna is shy about asking for financial support. So I'm launching this campaign on her behalf.

Please donate what you can to support both treatment costs and family support costs as she goes through this very intense time. Any amount is much appreciated!
Please help us share this campaign widely. #SaveDafna

Xoxo!!!

Sarah Murphy

See other ways you can send a donation here!

(The below don't charge a fee and Sacred Sun Ministries is even tax deductible!)

If you'd like to send a donation by Venmo, Paypal or offline, please send to:

Venmo: @Dafna-LaurieLAc

Paypal: dafnalaurie@gmail.com

Regular USPS Mail:

Dafna Laurie
5911 Advance Mills Road
Ruckersville, VA 22968

You can also send a tax deductible donation through a formal non-profit from yourself or your business:

A non-profit has kindly offered to pass through 100% of donations to Dafna. We are so grateful!

Sacred Sun Ministries is a 501C(3) nonprofit. All donations are acknowledged with a tax letter.

How:

Send a check to Sacred Sun Ministries, 2581 Glasgow Road, Fairfield, Iowa 52556. Leave the memo section of the check blank. Include a note naming your inspiration - i.e. Dafna Laurie. For cancer patients 100% of the donation is given with no fee.

OR

Make a donation via PayPal: sacredsun@lisco.com naming your inspiration - i.e. Dafna Laurie - in the notes section. Use ‘friends and family” so you aren’t charged a fee by PayPal. Be certain to include your address or email address in order to receive acknowledgement. The PayPal address can’t be used for personal communication with Sacred Sun. The Sacred Sun email address for questions or more information is sacredsun@windstream.net

More from Dafna:

This all began in 2015 with a finding of a small malignant tumor in one fallopian tube. They consider what I have to be metastatic Ovarian cancer. After this finding 7 years ago, I was without symptoms or any other sign of disease but it was still recommended that I do chemo and have a hysterectomy to minimize any chance of it returning. Before I could act, I found out I was pregnant! My miracle boy is now 6.5 years-old and very healthy. For obvious reasons, I did not get the chemo or hysterectomy, but was watched closely. I was symptom free for almost 5 years.

March of 2020 (everyone remember that time?), I found a swollen lymph node in my neck - it had returned. As we all coped with Covid shut-downs, I successfully went through 6 months of chemo that cleared my lymph (yay!). Shortly after, I moved across the country to live on a farm and be closer to family just to find out that I had a brain tumor. In Spring of 2021, I had brain surgery (yes, actual brain surgery) and then followed that up with some radiation in my brain. They used gamma knife radiation (which looks very sci-fi) and, luckily, it was only one round. During all this I was doing an intensive integrative protocol supporting me and my healing.

Since then my conventional oncologists (I have a team) have been following me closely with scans, blood tests and the like. I had a small node show up in spring of 2022 which was handled with 15 rounds of spot radiation. Currently, they found small amounts of disease in the surgery bed in my brain and a few very small lymph nodes in my abdomen. I underwent radiation for my brain again (the gamma knife, so just one time) and have just begun a new round of chemo that will last 6 months (and that crosses the blood brain barrier, this time) to address both the spread in the abdominal lymph nodes and the brain.

While I am lucky enough to work with a conventional oncologist who is open to my complete healing, this same conventional oncology system professes not to have a “cure” for what I am facing. So...

In addition to the diet changes, supplements, herbs, vitamin IVs and other therapies (i.e., hyperbaric chamber, professionally guided off-label prescription drugs), I have begun working with a board certified Integrative Oncologist. This doctor has been able to guide me in many valuable ways (supplements, what to do while going through chemo, lab tests, etc), and perhaps the most important thing this Integrative Oncologist is doing is looking worldwide for trials that focus on a cure.

As I begin this new round of chemo, I am focusing on something new: reducing stress. While I am grateful for the the support I have received from family and friends, it has become clear that it is necessary to seek support with regular services that offer childcare, driving, housekeeping, food and so on...

I am looking forward to expanding into this time that will allow me to focus on my healing. This is not something I have had much time for over the last 7 years with a child, a business, a pandemic and cancer. Also, did I mention I am working on a book?

The truth is that we don’t know what this is all going to cost. But we're expecting a lot when we add together treatment costs plus some support for the family.

The Integrative Oncologist is very helpful because she is guiding me away from some of the centers around the world that have quite expensive therapies (if she doesn’t see them as possibly curative for me) and toward university and government funded trials worldwide. The great news about those is that they cover most of the costs of the trials, just not the travel and living costs while doing it. Keeping all fingers crossed!

We will do whatever it takes, we just don’t know what it takes yet. We do know how much things are costing us now and it is adding up, for sure. We just don’t know where this will go or what expenses we’ll take on.

I am so grateful for any support you can provide. I will continue to update you. Thank you so much!

Dafna

Help Dafna Laurie Overcome Cancer Fund

By Sarah Murphy

Help Dafna Laurie Overcome Cancer Fund

Support Dafna in treating and overcoming her Stage IV Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis

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