Here is Miriam's own story and message!

"Please, don't let me die!

I've lived so much in such a short time that sometimes I feel it's all been a Marry-go-round ride.

Sometimes I felt like a king, sometimes like a beggar. My life was like a summer rain that wets you to the bone... yet you want more.

I consider myself lucky, gifted and blessed for it all. I have received a lot and I have given myself whole.

We leave from this life only with what others want to give us. For myself, when I go I know my soul will be full of my incredible mom, with the image of my sons who taught me unconditional love, with the worries and warmth of my sister and brother without whom my life would have been incomplete.

I know I will have in my shirt pocket, near my heart, all the friends that have been with me with their kindness. I will leave with the memories of my intense and deeply engaged loves and the memories of golden moments of happiness.

If I look back retrospectively, although I would like to think it is too soon and I hope from the deepest of my heart that this is not the end, I do so with pride.

I leave behind a beautifully lived life, with courage, dignity and sincerity, with devastating collapses and miraculous rebirths and above all, with lots of love.

I am Miriam Eugenia Soare and I have cancer. I am 53 years old and eighteen months ago I got diagnosed with breast cancer and I had both breasts removed because I have a rare form of malign cancer considered to be the most aggressive. It has now spread to my lungs. My best chance of survival is an imunostimulator treatment in Cuba but costs are prohibitive and overwhelming to myself and my family. I need your help and generosity, I need you in my stubbornness to try to save my life, to survive because I understood that life is unique and the most precious gift we ever are given!"