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Hi, my name is Joe Powell and I'm making this GoFundMe to try to help my brother Eli who was just diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer at 28 years old. My brother is the type of person who will give you the shirt off his back and walk through the rain just so you stay warm. I'm hoping we can join together and take a huge financial burden off his chest. So how everything started was he was having some blood in his stools randomly back in February, after ignoring it and pushing it off for two months he finally went to see a doctor who said it was internal hemorrhoids. He didn't think anything was wrong even when it started to get worse after a few more months. In July he was having 4-5 trips a day to the bathroom where he just wiped blood. So finally the end of September he went to see the doctor again but this time they didn't see any hemorrhoids so they sent him to a specialist. The next day the doctor said he needed to have a colonoscopy. After the colonoscopy, the doctor informed him that she found a tumor on his colon and then three days later the biopsy came back that it was cancer. After doing some more tests they diagnosed him with stage 3 rectal cancer. He is trying to go to school full time to become an RN while also working part-time taking care of special needs adults and taking care of his wife and 2-year-old son. With this diagnosis it has rocked his whole world, he won't be able to work anymore because of having to do chemo, radiation, and then surgery. His family also now has to worry about possible infertility for their future family and siblings for my nephew. He's determined to try to continue going to school full time in person but our family is worried he has too much on his plate and he's the type to pretend he's okay to protect everyone around him so I'm hoping and praying that we can all come together and help my brother not have to worry about finances and be able to give 100% of his energy to beating this cancer. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and please donate to help.
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    Red Wing, MN

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