Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Like they did to our client Lynda. While job hunting one day in 2010, Lynda spotted an RV in her area driving around to provide free mammograms to people in the neighborhood. Without health insurance, Lynda decided to get the exam. Little did she know that RV-mammogram would change her life. Soon after, she found out she had breast cancer.
Lynda had to make quick decisions on her own for her health: surgery that removed a tumor and lymph nodes on her left breast, was followed by radiation twice a day for five days. After radiation, Lynda started her cancer center journey and began chemotherapy.
While running an errand in 2016, Lynda collapsed in a shopping center. Luckily, two passers-by came to her aid, one of whom called 911. After a two-week hospital stay and many tests, she learned she had stage 4 cancer. Doctors informed her she would have to be on treatment again for the rest of her life, as long as the treatment works. Lynda found herself very sick, financially unsound and feeling all alone. Her parents, her only safety net, had passed away years before. She says: “Every part of my life was hard. Especially financially and emotionally … I was very alone. There I was, thinking that the cancer was over, and now it’s back again, but worse. It was hard to go on.”
Lynda’s cancer is aggressive. An inoperable tumor in her pelvic area is destroying the bones, making it difficult to walk or bend. Lynda now uses a cane to help her get around, and she has to be extremely careful with all movement, so as to not cause any breakage in her right leg.
Thankfully, an employee at New York Connect told Lynda about God’s Love We Deliver and she became a client. Lynda felt right away that God’s Love was an organization that cared deeply about her health and well-being. Lynda now receives nutritious, medically tailored meals delivered to her door, free of charge and full of love. Not only that, but she also has access to unlimited nutrition counseling with our Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and enjoys calls with and counseling from the team.
“I had no other food. It was really nice when I got my first meal delivery from God’s Love, because you feel like someone really cares about you.”