“I just feel like why? Why? Why did it pick me?”
Ameena’s illness complicated by the fact– she no longer has insurance.
She says she was fired last spring, from her job with Cure Violence Chicago, formerly known as Ceasefire.
Ameena is saving-up for a critical treatment, a high-dose chemo followed by a stem cell transplant. Doctors say this procedure will extend Ameena’s life by only about three years.
Ameena spent nearly three weeks at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital for the procedure. But despite the grueling side-effects, Chicago’s streets are all she can think about…
“I got babies out there dying,” she said. “I can’t sleep at night. I can’t cut the television off…”
Ameena says she has a family and a city to fight for. Despite the odds, she refuses to give-up now.
Ameena is on medication that costs her about $10,000 for a 21-day supply. To help, Ameena says members of the community created a GoFundMe page—raising tens of thousands for her medical treatments with money rolling-in from around the world. So far, she’s raised over $100,000. For more information about Ameena, click here.
Community Activist Fought For Others, Now Fights For Her Own Life was originally published on blackdoctor.org
