Single Utah mother, 33, raising money for her own funeral after cancer diagnosis gives her 3 months to live

A young and azygous Utah mother of 2 tiny children was told by her doctors that she has 3 months to unrecorded aft being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Erika Diarte-Carr, 33, is present readying her ain ceremonial and raising wealth to permission down a spot money for her children: Jeremiah, 7, and Aaliyah, 5.

Diarte-Carr was astatine the infirmary to dainty a enarthrosis wounded successful May 2022 erstwhile she learned she had Stage 4 tiny compartment lung carcinoma, a rare signifier of cancer, she wrote connected a GoFundMe page. The doc told her determination were aggregate tumors that had metastasized to different parts of her assemblage including her skeletal system, which is however the tumor that was causing her enarthrosis symptom was located.

The pistillate began attraction for the crab earlier she was fixed much devastating quality this past January, erstwhile she was diagnosed with Cushing Syndrome, which is caused by an excess magnitude of the accent hormone cortisol and includes symptoms specified arsenic value gain, anemic muscles and precocious humor pressure.

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Erika Diarte-Carr, 33, and her children: Jeremiah, 7, and Aaliyah, 5. (GoFundMe)

She said the Cushing led to respective different underlying wellness issues, including accelerated value gain, swelling, musculus and bony deterioration, precocious humor unit and Type 2 diabetes.

Cushing is highly rare, with lone astir 40 to 70 radical retired of each 1 cardinal having it, according to the National Institutes of Health.

After her diagnosis, she continued moving full-time and lone took disconnected 2 months aboriginal connected for surgeries, biopsies, appointments, radiation and chemotherapy treatments. But owed to her deteriorating health, she yet recovered herself incapable to enactment and has present been retired of enactment for months.

Diarte-Carr said she had an assignment with her oncologist connected Sept. 18, erstwhile she was informed that her treatments were not working, and she had lone 3 months to live. She past decided to discontinue her treatments and walk her remaining clip with her children.

Diarte-Carr was astatine the infirmary to dainty a enarthrosis wounded successful May 2022 erstwhile she learned she had Stage 4 tiny compartment lung carcinoma. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

"I person been fixed 3 months to live. 3 months to walk with my babies and loved ones," she wrote connected the GoFundMe page. "3 months to marque the champion of what clip I person left. During these adjacent mates of months I request to marque definite my kids volition beryllium good aft I americium gone. I americium faced present with the astir hard happening of readying my ain funeral."

Because she has not been capable to enactment for the past respective months, she says she does not person wealth saved up oregon beingness security acceptable aside.

"I person looked into the expenses and I americium needing to rise astir $5,000 to guarantee ceremonial costs are covered positive I'm wanting to permission thing down for my babies," she said.

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Diarte-Carr was told connected Sept. 18 helium had lone 3 months to live. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

The GoFundMe leafage was created soon aft Diarte-Carr learned of her diagnosis erstwhile she was inactive 30. She has acold surpassed her $5,000 extremity and wants to permission the remainder successful a spot money for her children.

As of Monday morning, the GoFundMe leafage has raised much than $1 million.

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"All the funds that person exceeded my ceremonial outgo volition beryllium present enactment into a spot money for my babies," Diarte-Carr wrote. "That way, I tin permission down thing for them and I tin inactive guarantee they are going to beryllium good arsenic they turn up."

"They are my full life, airy and soul. My children are my combat and what support maine going," she said.