Forever by the sea

Now, how was it, really? How did I come across the CJH organization?

I am still suffering from low concentration and ability to focus after the chemotherapy. My memory is limited, although the last chemotherapy treatment was back in March 2020. An operation has followed and an 18-month-long anti-body-therapy. Now, I am undergoing a hormonal treatment for another 4 years which is very important to protect me from falling back ill, but has a heavy impact on concentration and endurance.

I had heard and read about Giannina and the CJH organization before I even know what’s going on in my body, and before cancer took place in my life. I didn’t even dare to think, that it could happen to me to fall ill.

Carl Jakob’s and Gianninas faith have touched me thoroughly – and only quite much later I have realized that they have been planning this organization together.

At some point when I was in the middle of chemotherapy, when I felt very lonely with everything and it all, that’s when I remembered about the organization, and I just simply messaged Giannina. This way, I got to know lovely people, the so-called ‘Chemopaten’, people who support young people who fall sick with cancer, to give them support throughout and after chemo.

They have helped me so much when it got very difficult, physically and psychologically, when the fear took over. Conversations helped, or just simply them being there. To support with the grocery shopping, to spend an evening cooking together, go for a walk or have a café. Only just to know, that there is someone who will be taking care of my little dog when I’m feeling low, has given me so much.

Only after while later, I realized that this isn’t everything that the CJH organization does. They also make dreams come true! A chemopate made me aware of it…

I was hoping, the CJH organization would support me to pay for expensive medication and to do a blood test to mirror my Selenium. The insurance company doesn’t pay for these – and CJH helped so quickly and with no bureaucracy, which I am so deeply grateful for. At this time, my energy levels were very low, so much bureaucracy has drained me, and I appreciated quick financial help so much.

The cancer made me start to dream again. Knowing that CJH also supports cancer patients in making dreams become reality, I dreamed about travelling with my little son, who’s name is, by the way, also Karl Jacob (just with a K).

I started dreaming about being by the ocean, I wanted to live by the Sea. Since I was a child, I have a deep desire to live by the Sea and I feel so connected to the water. The sound of the waves, the colors of the water, the smell of the salt in the air – all of this is so calming and peaceful to my soul.

And now this is reality! Can you believe it? I am filled with the deepest gratitude, when I am walking through the coastal forest toward the water… This is where I belong. The biggest dream has come true.

With the support of CJH organisation, I was able to make the move. The financial support made me able to pay for everything, without getting trapped in debts. I feel so free!

Thanks to all those lovely people who work for the organization, I was able to get where I am today. It fills me with security, hope and energy to experience so much support and I am filled with gratitude.

It is just wonderful to be accompanied on my path out of the disease, and into a new life.

It’s all going to be alright! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.