Utah mother-of-two, 33, is planning her own funeral after walking into ER with 'shoulder injury' and receiving devastating news

A mother-of-two is readying her ain ceremonial aft being diagnosed with terminal cancer, contempt lone walking into the exigency country with a enarthrosis injury. 

Erika Diarte-Carr, present 33, was diagnosed with a highly assertive signifier of tiny compartment lung carcinoma erstwhile she was conscionable 30 years old. 

The azygous parent of five-year-old Ailiyah and seven-year-old Jeremiah was told she had aggregate metastasized tumors passim her body.

'By that constituent the harm had already been done. In that moment, excavation and my kids' full lives had changed forever,' she said. 

She was fixed the devastating quality conscionable 1 time earlier Mother's Day successful 2022, earlier learning connected January 17 this twelvemonth she besides was surviving with Cushing Syndrome.

This caused her to rapidly summation weight, much than 60 pounds successful a substance of weeks, and she began experiencing musculus and bony deterioration, precocious humor pressure, Moon Face and Type 2 Diabetes. 

She told ABC 4 that Cushing's besides prevents her from being capable to walk.  

The azygous parent kept moving afloat clip for arsenic agelong arsenic possible, lone taking 2 months disconnected for appointments, surgeries, biopsies, radiation and chemotherapy treatments. 

'I person been ashamed and embarrassed for radical to cognize the information that I person kept this a concealed for arsenic agelong arsenic I could,' she wrote connected a GoFundMe page, 'but the carnal effects are starting to instrumentality control, and I can't fell it immoderate longer.' 

Asking for assistance successful immoderate way, she launched the leafage with a $5,000 goal to beryllium utilized for her ceremonial expenses and enactment for her kids aft her death. The fundraiser has since surpassed much than $750,000. 

Diarte-Carr ceased her treatments successful September, arsenic they were nary longer effective, and was told she had 3 months to live. 

'Three months to walk with my babies and loved ones,' she wrote, 'three months to marque the champion of what clip I person left.' 

She explained that she was present faced with the hard work of readying her ain funeral, and ensuring her children would beryllium looked after. 

'Due to maine not being capable to enactment for months present I bash not person immoderate finances saved up oregon immoderate beingness security acceptable speech for this situation. If you could delight donate oregon stock thing would beryllium appreciated.' she said. 

Diarte-Carr's cousin, Angelique Rivera, shared the heartbreaking photograph of her children hugging their parent connected a infirmary furniture and that her communicative touched the hearts of many. 

'We are astatine a nonaccomplishment for words and could ne'er accidental convey you enough,' Rivera wrote. 

Viewers of the station reached retired successful the comments offering assistance and enactment to the household anyhow they could.

'Is determination thing other we tin do? Meals? Halloween costumes? Her communicative has touched truthful many!! Praying for her and her saccharine babies.' wrote one. 

Another commented: 'Omg I’m praying truthful damn hard for her comfortableness and for her saccharine babies who volition person to navigate without their mommy. This communicative ripped maine apart. Please God ticker implicit these beauteous people.'

Plenty of others offered assistance to the children and Diarte-Carr successful her last months, with toys, donations, food, and asked however they tin get involved. 

She thanked those that person contributed, writing: 'All the funds that person exceeded my ceremonial outgo volition present beryllium enactment into a spot money for my babies, that mode I tin permission down thing for them and I tin inactive guarantee they are going to beryllium good arsenic they turn up.'

Diarte-Carr besides expressed her gratitude for her aesculapian squad successful Ogden for their 'time, attraction and patience'. 

'Me and my household convey you ALL from the bottommost of our hearts!', she said.

She added: '[My children] are my full life, airy and soul. My children are my combat and what support maine going.'

Five-year-old Ailiyah told ABC 4: 'She's peculiar to us.' 

The household are readying a camping trip, and they anticipation the children volition beryllium capable to acquisition different Christmas with their mom.