Fighting for Breast Cancer Patients right to be STRESS FREE During Treatment!!
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Our Vision
To provide financial assistance to the working breast cancer patient for their medical bills.
We help provide financial assistance to the working breast cancer patient for their medical bills. This assistance is not only for breast cancer women patients, but men as well - anyone that has no other choice but to keep working during treatment in order to ensure their medical bills are paid.
Our goal is to help breast cancer patients maintain their way of life while undergoing treatment. Breast cancer patients are advised to be as stress free as possible during treatment. That is a challenging request when the reality of overly expensive medical bills from treatment have to be paid. Although most cancer patients are still working, this does not necessarily mean they can afford to pay their medical bills and maintain their household expenses. It was reported that 78% of full time working people in America are living paycheck-to-paycheck (CareerBuilder Press Release, 2017). When expensive medical bills are added to the current household expenses, that is a perfect formula for stress. At the end of the day…all bill collectors expect payment and payment on time. We want to help take some of the stress away.
You are not alone in this fight. We are here to help! Whether you need assistance with medical bills, someone to give you encouragement, or someone to speak on your behalf - Heart & Sole is here to help you fight. Put on your pink boxing gloves and put those hands up! Breast cancer is not going to defeat you! Stay strong and most of all…KEEP FIGHTING!
Who We Are
Heart & Sole is a nonprofit organization who provide financial assistance to the working breast cancer patient toward their medical bills. This assistance is not only for women breast cancer patients, but for men breast cancer patients as well - anyone who has no other choice but to continue working during treatment in order to ensure their medical bills are paid.
We are located in Salisbury, NC and currently assist breast cancer patients in the North Carolina area. If you have been diagnosed with this disease or know of someone who has been diagnosed and need financial assistance with their treatment medical bills, please reach out to us for help.
Bringing financial assistance to the working breast cancer fighter.
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Heart & Sole Founder
Lekishja L. Mabry is a breast cancer SURVIVOR determined to help as many breast cancer patients and survivors with being as stress-free as possible from the daunting medical bills incurred during treatment.
Fundraisers
Each year we will host different fundraisers to help provide financial assistance to working breast cancer patients and survivors who are dealing with the stress of paying medical bills from their treatment. We will announce fundraisers for sponsor and vendor participation.
Why We Walk
The annual “Walk With Heart & Sole” event is to help raise money for working breast cancer patients to help pay their treatment medical bills. We will walk every year to continue raising money toward this cause. We look to the surrounding communities, businesses and churches to help support our efforts. We hope that you will consider being a sponsor and provide your donation. 100% of your donation will go directly to the medical provider, not the breast cancer patient. The patient will provide their breast cancer treatment medical bills to us, and we will make the payment directly to the medical provider.
Upcoming Events
Check back for the next Heart & Sole Event!
Pictures from our 1st Annual Walk With Heart & Sole Event
Heart & Sole Online Store
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Heart & Sole online store was created to help with our mission to assist breast cancer patients’ with their treatment medical bills. Your purchases mean more than you know. You can be proud to not only wear our products and represent Heart & Sole, but also be proud of giving back to your community. What an awesome way to help make a difference!
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Contact Heart & Sole
Please call, email or click the “Contact Us’ button to submit a form and request financial assistance with your medical treatment bills. Please allow 24 to 48 business hours for someone to contact you.
Make a Difference
Donate to Heart & Sole
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Thank you for taking the time to support Heart & Sole. Your generous donations are greatly appreciated. 100% of the money you donate goes directly to the medical providers that issue the medical bills for breast cancer patients’ treatment.
Just think of how many lives you are helping by simply paying a medical bill to relieve some stress. The more you give, the more medical bills that will be paid and the more stress that will be relieved. No one asks for this unwanted disease to enter their lives, but when it does, it really hits home. Your donation will help offset some of their worries.
Pump It Up!
Throughout the year, we will shine the spotlight on a breast cancer patient or survivor wearing her pumps. We will post her story for encouragement to other breast cancer patients and survivors.
Do you know of a breast cancer patient or survivor you would like us to highlight? If so, please send their information at the below “Pump It Up” link, with their approval of course…and we will be sure to highlight them at some point in the year!
Pump It Up Spotlight
Rhonda Dalton
My name is Rhonda Dalton Jones. I am 48 years old and I am a breast cancer survivor!! My breast cancer journey begins like a lot of other women start their breast cancer journey. I have been doing self-exams and getting mammograms since I was around 30 years old since my mom, who is also a breast cancer survivor, was diagnosed more than 25 years ago.
I make my annual appointment at the Imaging Center for August 6, 2019. I decided to get the 3D mammogram and boy am I glad that I did. Then I get THE phone call. It was the Imaging Center asking me to come in for additional views. I IMMEDIATELY knew, without a doubt, that something was wrong so I started praying. I told my husband what was said and he told me to not to worry, we would face it together. I did not want to worry my friends or other family members so I did not want to tell them, but my stress at trying to remain normal became too much so I told them. Praying continued and I felt relief that I had so many people praying with and for me.
I go in for the additional imaging which included another mammogram and a biopsy. A couple of days later, my husband and I go to meet with the Nurse Navigator and the Physician. I was beyond nervous!! They delivered the news that yes, the mass in my breast was malignant. I tried to keep it together but we have all heard stories “of women dying from breast cancer” so I was shook to my core! I immediately thought of my children. Yes, they were 20 and 25 at the time but they needed their mother! The Nurse Navigator told me that she had set me up with the A-Team and that I was in great hands.
Later on in August, the doctor visits started. I now had an Oncologist and a Surgeon on my medical team, which seemed unbelievable since I had previously only had my family physician. I had been completely healthy, or at least I thought I was!! No medicine, just routine doctor visits and my annual physical.
I decided to undergo genetic testing to see if I carried the BRCA gene which would indicate if I had an increased risk of developing Ovarian Cancer. The results came back negative, THANK GOD!!
I had been debating on whether to get a lumpectomy which is when the surgeon removes the mass, a mastectomy where the infected breast is removed, or a bilateral mastectomy where both breasts are removed. Decisions, decisions, decisions!! I consulted with my family, other breast cancer survivors who I knew had undergone mastectomies and some with lumpectomies, and of course my medical team. I decided to do a bilateral mastectomy for several reasons. With me being fairly young with hopefully at least 40-50 more years to live I did not want to have to worry about the cancer coming back so I decided to have the bilateral mastectomy in October 2019. They also removed a few lymph nodes. Thank God, the test results came back that the cancer had not spread to my lymph nodes and the surgeon got it all out!! I was CANCER FREE!!!
I still had to undergo further treatment since I had Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Although my numbers were low, the diagnosis deemed that I follow a certain treatment regimen. There are side effects to the treatment but I can deal with those because I STILL HAVE MY LIFE! I AM STILL STANDING! I AM HERE TO TELL MY STORY! I AM A SURVIVOR!
Become A Sponsor
Heart & Sole is a nonprofit organization seeking businesses, churches and other organizations to sponsor our effort in providing financial assistance to breast cancer patients. We specifically provide financial assistance to the working breast cancer patient and survivor who need help paying their medical bills for treatment.
Please consider becoming a sponsor of Heart & Sole. 100% of your financial contribution will go toward breast cancer patients and survivors medical bills for treatment. Payment will be made directly to the medical provider.
We also raise money via different fundraisers throughout the year, and welcome your sponsorship and support. Please contact us for more information on our sponsorship opportunities. contact@theheartandsole.org