Thread by @MsAmyMacPherson

1/20🧵 I have some pretty big news to share #Thread #CDNpoli

I finally have all my specialized test results & it's much worse than anyone hoped or predicted. My life is going to be cut rather short due to physical complications with cancer & political complications with #Covid19

2/20 🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

In the past 2 months, my lung cancer tumor has already grown. But yesterday we finally learned why I was falling & what injured my leg & back to make them so painful & too weak to walk anymore

I don't just have lung cancer. There's more...

3/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

In addition to the lung tumor, my left leg & hip are riddled with cancer. It began in my right leg too. All lymph nodes have cancer. Two spots in my spine have cancer (T5 & T12). Cancer in my left rib & right shoulder. 3 tumors in my liver as well

4/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

The wonderful & compassionate oncologists at #RVH will buy me as much time as possible, but like thousands of others, I was diagnosed too late due to the pandemic to be able to save my life. Provincial govts chose instead to prioritize antivaxxers

5/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

It was ironic the Truckers Convoy (aka #TruckersGoHome, aka #Omnicronvoy, aka #Freedom2Kill) alt-right & antivax protestors vandalized the #TerryFox monument in Ottawa, because I need the same surgery he had... but I can't get it because of them

6/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

To buy me any real time I need a prosthetic leg (+ radiation, chemo, targeted immunotherapy), but the #ONpoli govt & CMOH Kieran Moore forced Ontario hospitals to prioritize surgeries

Since it would only prolong & not save my life, I'm outta luck

7/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

So with respect to Premier Ford, he can lightly scold protestors for vandalism, but it's the #ONpoli govt & CMOH that betrayed #TerryFox & incited this depraved behaviour by favouring antivaxxers over all cancer patients, regardless of age

8/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

Because provincial politicians (especially in #ONpoli, #BCpoli, #ABleg, #SKpoli, #MBpoli & #polQC) catered to partisan interests over science & public health, it's causing thousands of children to lose their parents

For example, I'm a single mom

9/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

I will now undergo massive radiation in the effort to shrink my cancer, just enough so I can sleep, hobble to the bathroom, put clothes over my head, & talk lovingly with my son for as long as possible without the pain causing my body to shutdown

10/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

Don't know how much longer I have. Could be as short as a few months, or possibly a year if I respond well. But cancer has a huge headstart & it's spreading at warp speed, as everything the doctors needed to save me is held hostage by antivaxxers

11/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer

As CMOH's from several provinces deny & defy the expertise at @WHO by prematurely declaring #COVID19 endemic & lifting public health restrictions, I'm further warned that if I catch even the so-called 'mild' #Omicron variant, it will definitely kill me

12/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

So to the self-righteous minority of antiestablishment truckers, their wealthy far right & far left backers, & the provincial politicians who take their advice from anarchists, its the #Freedom2KillConvoy & many of us can't learn to live with it

13/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

The savage entitlement from 10% of the population has managed to kill public healthcare for those who need it most. I never dreamed I'd live to see that destruction of our country, but here we are & perhaps democracy will be buried beside me

14/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

In the meantime & as the 10% of misfits throw millions of dollars around to terrorize cancer patients & prevent them from receiving healthcare, I now have a few months to pay off my mortgage so my son won't become homeless when I die prematurely

15/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

I now need another $25,000 on top of the $10K I originally asked for, if I'm to write a Will, Power of Attorney, take care of my palliative needs, & save my son's home before I have to leave him behind. And no, we don't have family to support him

16/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

Needless to say, it's been the worst week of my life & this Trucker Convoy is not a peaceful protest. If anyone was honest, it's killing thousands of innocent people & breaking families by killing kids &/or parents to create orphans #RealityCheck

17/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

Least they could do is not make the children homeless, unless that's another libertarian 'freedom' that trumps my Charter right to live & my son's to have a mother. Gotta say, I'm having a hard time grasping how that qualifies as 'family values'

18/20🧵#CDNpoli #COVID19

Thanks from the bottom of my ♥ to everyone who's contributed

Due to my drastic #cancer prognosis, we now need $35,000 & it would be nice if the Trucker Convoy could spare that much from its $10 million fund to torment everyone

gofundme.com/f/z99ud-aiding…

19/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

I also appreciate that many of you will comment & I like to read your sentiments. It's just that it took everything out of me to write this & I require rest before I sit up for another session. Know you're in my heart & I'll respond when I can

20/20🧵#CDNpoli #Cancer #COVID19

PS. If any of my friends would like to visit & say their goodbyes... it's probably best to schedule before the season changes. I'm on a tremendous amount of medication & I can probably do an hour at a time

Love to you all,

Amy