Fibroid Patient Seeks Financial Assistance for Surgery

Roxxane Marin, an employee at the Women’s Department, who also serves the Disability Desk under that department is tonight asking for your help. Marin has a hidden disability and has been living with fibroids for the last twenty years. The medical condition has become aggressive, and she is in dire need of surgery. Unable to cover the cost of the medical procedure, Marin is requesting financial assistance from anyone willing to assist. Here is what she told us today.

 

Roxxane Marin, Fibroid Patient

“Financial assistance is what I am asking. I have fibroids. I have had it for the last twenty-years. Since November 2022 it has become aggressive. Life has definitely changed, not for the best. Lot of anxiety, a lot of time off the up and down to the doctor, a lot of medication since January of this year. Nothing has been successful and so I had to come to the realization that there is no way around it. I have to do the surgery. It is very expensive. I cant afford it and that is why I am coming to the media to ask for assistance, from everybody, Belizeans at home and abroad, every body in the public service, private sector, friend, family, nonfamily, people nuh realize dah Belize if yon uh have it, ih nuh wah work for you. Dah Belize you the live from paycheck to paycheck and ih important now to realize that savings dah something weh nuh matter how small you do it try do it. But in this instance I am coming to the public to ask for help fih get the surgery done. I am giving myself until the end of may to come up with the money. It is over nine thousand dollars. I have a flier I am asking everybody to circulate on social media and as much as what I could get help with that is what I am coming to people to ask for help.”