Booked for major surgery next week, Prince George resident Charlene Dinnery is in the fight of her life.
Diagnosed with ovarian cancer last month, with additional cancerous masses discovered and diagnosed with stage four colon cancer not two weeks ago, Dinnery, 46, needs help from the Prince George community she’s been part of her whole life.
“She’s heading to Vancouver for surgery on Dec. 4 and we’re just trying to get some help with expenses,” Mom Vera said.
The surgery will remove ovaries and the masses and then Dinnery will return to Prince George for colon cancer treatment.
“Charlene’s husband and 14-year-old daughter will be travelling with her to give her support during this terrible time,” Vera said. “I just want to help Charlene as much as I can so I’ve been collecting bottles and asking people for donations to help with the costs, especially for the flights.”
Charlene has her own cleaning business and Vera said she’s doing what she can to keep the business going so that Charlene will still have an income from that while she gets treated for the cancers and heals from the surgery.
“They’ve still got bills to pay,” Vera said. “Right now my main concern is helping with flights and hotels and I don’t know what else to do so I came to The Citizen to help get the word out.”
Vera said the family just didn’t see this coming.
“Something like this is not foreseen,” Vera said with a shake of her head. “And I really feel for my granddaughter because her father is not well either and I just don’t know what else to do.”
To help to ease Charlene's financial burden visit www.gofundme.com/f/help-charlene-dinnery-fight-cancer.
