11/15/2025
Kim Keller (pictured at right), a dear friend of OEHC's co-owner Jim Jordan is in need of your kind support. Please consider a donation to her GoFundMe campaign:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-kim-in-healing-cancer?attribution_id=sl:707b8672-59bc-46d9-9815-7c7e72213576
From her email to friends:
November marks one year since receiving my initial cancer diagnosis of a “Stage 2 Myxoid Liposarcoma” in my left hamstring. In the seven months that followed, two additional tumors have appeared and been surgically removed. In February my diagnosis became “Stage 4 and incurable.”
After receiving the first diagnosis I immediately decided to take the year off to focus on healing: Following my dedicated path of spiritual and ta***ic wisdom, meditation, ritual, love, pleasure and trust became far more than just words, but my constant daily practice. This time off from my financial livelihood along with the medical bills, has only been made possible by the love and donations of friends and family. Now, I find myself entering this second year with an even more extreme diagnosis, and hence, needing to focus further on health and healing.
Today I am writing with an ask:
Throughout this past year, the generosity of friends and family has allowed me to explore and implement a wide range of treatments — from integrative therapies to allopathic Western medicine. At this point, my doctors have very little left to offer besides a “whack-a-mole” approach: surgically removing each tumor as it appears, with the understanding that eventually there will be one (or more) that can’t be removed, and that will ultimately end my life.
My deepest hope is simple and powerful: to stop growing tumors.
Right now, I have no active tumors, and my next scan is scheduled for January. This window — this rare pause — feels like the perfect moment to try two promising approaches offered by local healers here in Ashland. Friends have gifted me the opportunity to try each treatment on a limited basis; now I would like to continue and deepen the work, to see if we can slow or even halt the tumor growth.
I could say so much about this cancer — how extremely rare it is, how little is known, how few doctors ever even see a Myxoid Liposarcoma in their careers. Out of the roughly 500,000 cancer diagnoses expected nationwide this coming year, only about 2,000 will be sarcomas, and an even smaller fraction will be this unusual subtype — the 1% of the 1%.
What I do know is this: I am giving this journey my full attention, doing everything in my power, and staying connected to hope, love, and life.
If you feel inspired or able to support me in continuing these treatments, I would be deeply grateful. I’m hoping to raise these funds within the next two weeks.
Thank you — truly — for the love, care, and generosity you’ve already shown. It has carried me through this year in more ways than I can describe. I remain hopeful, committed, and very much wanting to stay here, with all of you, for as long as I can.
With love and grace,
Kim