A week after receiving the crushing blow that was her glioblastoma diagnosis, Cailtyn Weldon has seen her friends and neighbors band together in her honor.
Weldon, 27, of Shirley, was feeling terribly ill for several days. After a couple of urgent care trips showed no improvement, she admitted herself to the hospital, where scans revealed a mass on her brain.
Friend Taylor Strong took to GoFundMe, where she created a page to raise the funds necessary for Weldon to financially and spiritually tackle her bout with brain cancer.
A former high school field hockey fiend on the local front and current mother to a 5-year-old boy, Caitlin is by and large known as a doting daughter and sister, and a friend to all. She is “someone who would do anything to help anyone and everyone she knows,” Strong wrote.
“With this new diagnosis has come a world of changes… she is now looking at months of treatments and a long road to recovery.”
As of Friday, September 12th, over $33,500K in donations has been raised on the William Floyd alumna’s behalf.