28-year-old Kristie Schiffer from Oirschot preferred not to talk about her cancer disease in recent years. But not so long ago, she received the harsh message that the doctors in the Netherlands can no longer make her better. Treatment in Mexico is her only hope now. That is why she started an online crowdfunding campaign on Saturday, which made it immediately clear to her loved ones how sick she actually is. “I threw it like a bomb into the world.”
“For a long time I lived my life as a one-man army, but now I’m changing that.” Kristie writes this in the crowdfunding campaign. Until she put the message online, only she, her parents and her doctors knew that the cancer had spread.
“I felt very insecure.”
“I have a hard time coping with other people’s reactions to my illness,” Kristie explains. The fact that she had received very bad news did not become clear to her environment until Saturday. With the push of a button, everyone could suddenly read about her metastasis. “I felt very insecure,” she says.
Friend Charlotte Dekkers heard about Kristie’s metastasis just before the collection. And that hit very hard. “I should have known,” says the girlfriend. “But because I still thought she was clean, I mainly tried to do fun things with her.”
“It’s incredibly valuable. I didn’t see that coming.”
Now Charlotte mainly hopes that her friend can go to Mexico as soon as possible for treatment.
That treatment in Mexico, on which Kristie has pinned her hopes after much research, costs about 70,000 euros. After she shared it on her social media, more than a third of it had already been collected within 24 hours, more than 25,000 euros. And she is very happy about that: “It is really very valuable. I never dared to see that coming.”
You can find the fundraiser from and for Kristie Schiffer here.
