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Rare Cancer-Help w/ Bills & Funeral

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My name is Alexandria, I go by Alex for short. In 2012 my husband and I moved to Japan because he accepted a teaching job through a program called JET. We were married in June of that year and moved to Japan at the end of July. In October I had a hard time walking one day while on a day trip and was in so much pain.  I thought it was from all of the walking we had done.  Later that night I went to a doctor because I was in excruciating pain but they saw nothing.  A few weeks later I found a small lump on my "unmentionables" so I went to a gynecologist who in turn sent me to another doctor who said I had 2 tumors. They then sent me to a specialist who said I had 3! They weren't sure if I had cancer until they did surgery. They said it grew like cancer but lwas shaped like a noncancerous tumor. They did the surgery and sent it to a specialist and they found it was ADULT METASTATIC EWING'S SARCOMA. They said I was the 22nd PERSON WORLDWIDE to have this, because if my age at the time-24, and because of it's location-the vulva. It was normally found on bones in children and not really found in tissue in adults. I was left with 2 inoperable tumors which are located near my tailbone and hip on a nerve which now have evolved into a third tumor and spread to my lungs. I also have a tumor on my Liver.  I have a colostomy bag so I now have to pay for bags, sprays, and powders. I am trying to raise money for my hospital bills in Japan and so my husband isn't stuck with a load to bear when I pass away.  Right now,  the doctors have ran out of options and told me that at best I have several months to live. I was on a clinical trail drug that shrunk all but one tumor by 20% but now i'm not in the clinical trail the were worried it caused a tumor in my back to grow that I sugerically had to get removed and they thought it slowed healing time, but right now I'm trying to get back on the drug, especially to help my swelling.

We've set up with hospice for when the time comes, picked out my tombstone (which we have a lot to pay on), the church graciously donated a plot and near my grandma too, like I wanted....they didn't even know.  I have also sat down with my pastor and made plans.

I have this page in the color YELLOW because that is the color of the RIBBON for this type of cancer. Thank you so much for your support and contributions, it is so greatly appreciated. I thought when we moved to Japan we'd be having the time of our lives, not trying to save mine. 

I currently have a blog about my daily life with Cancer.  So if you are interested in following my journey you can read it at: www.alexreichardt.weebly.com 

 Again, thank you so much for all of your prayers and best wishes.




Donations 

  • Joseph Gramling
    • $25 
    • 7 yrs

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Alexandria Reichardt
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Kenosha, WI

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