She carries her children in her pocket, their initials on their wrists.
Love anchors this mother – even when Nicole McHathy’s world turns upside down.
“I will live in my car, I will spend every penny if it means I can be around for my children,” Makhati said.
She struggles for more time, time to guide her son and daughter, to watch them grow.
Her husband died of suicide three years ago.
McHatty now has stage four colon cancer.
“It’s awful. This is the worst news you can imagine,” she said.
After her diagnosis last April, she underwent chemotherapy, surgery and more chemotherapy. The cancer spread and her choice shrank.
“I was told it was not working. “It’s incurable. If you’re lucky and you can find a clinical trial that you can get into, then you may have a chance,” she said.
Clinical trials failed, so she left for the United States
Friends are raising tens of thousands of dollars to cover her treatment.
And on Sunday night they organize a kitchen party.
“There is nothing that I or her tribe will not do to help her. She is fighting in this battle with such perseverance, grace and humor, “said her friend Staisha Hudderley.
McHathie wants patients like her to have more options and wants home screening to start earlier.
“If the screening was 45 or even 40, which makes more sense as we see more and more young people getting colon cancer, I would be in a completely different situation than I am now,” McHatty said. .
A mother who wants her children to have a parent.
“When you have two children who rely on you and they are only your heart and soul, you must do everything possible to stay for them. They have been through so much, “said Makhati.
“They are already losing their father – losing me – (this) is not happening.”
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