Lori Silver’s Cancer Battle

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Lori Silver is a very familiar face in the New Jersey cover band scene.
Along with her husband Scott, they have worked helping promote many of the top club bands for over 20 years.
For the past 3 years, Lori has been fighting the battle of her life against advanced ovarian and stage 4 breast cancer, plus a myriad of debilitating complications.
The financial burden (even after insurance) has driven the Silvers to bankruptcy.

In January 2017 Lori spent over 8 hours in surgery to remove a 19-pound malignant tumor from her left ovary. During this surgery, due to the size and characteristics of the tumor, portions of her bowel, colon and bladder were also removed. Lori needed to have a colostomy as a result of this surgery.
Lori's first complication occurred 10 days after the initial surgery, a day after she was released from the hospital, when she was rushed back to the hospital only to find that there was previously undetected damage to her left ureter which was caused by the cutting away of the tumor (which was wrapped around the ureter, just below the kidney). She was taken back into surgery and the doctors performed a nephrostomy to install stents and tubes to drain her left kidney.

The next focus for the oncologists was to get Lori started on chemotherapy. The goal was to get her through at least 8-10 sessions, as a follow-up protocol for the ovarian surgery, and as a preparatory treatment for the breast tumor, which was almost the size of a baseball. The goal was to shrink this tumor to the point where it would be considered "operable." The oncologist was very clear that these rounds of chemo would not be easy - that, in fact, he was going to be walking a fine line between saving her and killing her. Chemo was hell. Lori got so sick she needed to be hospitalized after each session, and she was getting weaker and weaker. After the fifth round, the doctors pulled the plug on the chemo. It was just too dangerous to continue.