SALT LAKE CITY — The group in Salt Lake and West Jordan is rallying round an area enterprise proprietor, Cecilia (CC) Armenta, after overcoming each uterine and breast most cancers simply to be confronted with a struggle in opposition to fibromyalgia. With the challenges she faces, extra group help is required.
Armenta is the proprietor of “Yumz” which began about two and half years in the past as a vegan bakery. Since her well being struggles started, it has since change into a full restaurant with two areas.
Yumz Emblem (KSL TV)
“I used to be going via my second spherical of most cancers. Single mother, couldn’t work, and so out of desperation I simply began making vegan plant-based gadgets from issues from my residence simply to attempt to promote them and see if anyone would need some simply so I might earn some earnings,” Armenta mentioned.
“Meals is only a stunning factor,” mentioned Armenta. “You realize it simply makes you’re feeling good figuring out that you just’re spreading your love via the group, via meals. It’s type of our tradition.”
Armenta has labored along with her mom, Leonor Fuentes to remodel a few of her household’s Latin recipes into vegan recipes, partially to share among the modifications in weight loss plan she took on whereas combating off most cancers.
Her illness impacts the nervous system, and Armenta says between the mind and the guts being impacted, she might solely have 5 to 10 years left.
“It’s affected me to the purpose the place I can’t be within the kitchen anymore cooking like I used to do and like to do as a result of the warmth is also one other set off for having seizures or blacking out,” Armenta mentioned.
Armenta had a kind of seizures on Monday, forcing her to shut down her West Jordan store for about an hour till her mom might take over.
As if the well being problem isn’t sufficient for Armenta, her medical insurance coverage firm lately dropped her specialist, placing her now on a ready checklist. Shifting insurance coverage corporations is unlikely to work as a result of Armenta wants it for her daughter, who has autism.
“I don’t like asking for assist, so for me, it’s type of onerous for me to place myself on the market,” Armenta mentioned. “I wish to be round for my daughter and I wish to be wholesome so what do I gotta do? And that’s the place I went on [this] journey.”
A buyer of Armenta’s reached out to KSL due to their love of her meals and needed to assist.
A supportive buyer is available in for some meals and a hug. (KSL TV)
“If I’m not in a position to increase the funds, I’m going to have to shut the doorways completely as a result of I simply can’t do it anymore,” Armenta mentioned. “I’m going to need to take what funds I’ve from right here to have the ability to pay for [treatment] out of pocket as a result of I can’t wait.”
Armenta says a donation or a go to to certainly one of her outlets to get some meals is all appreciated. She has a GoFundMe the place patrons and supporters can donate to assist Armenta pay for her therapies.
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