Gracey Fuller

Gracey was diagnosed with angiosarcoma just days before her 16th birthday. She was told she would have to undergo a right-sided mastectomy and radiation. They told us her cancer was rare and that there were only 13 kids with this cancer. Once in surgery to remove the tumor, they realized it was bigger than expected and had to take all the skin, part of the muscle and all the breast tissue. She ended up needing a skin graft to cover the hole that was left. About a week after surgery they were informed they didn't get clean margins, and she would have to start inpatient chemo and radiation at the same time. Her chemo regimen consisted of a 5-day hospital stay where for two of those days she would receive ifosfamide and doxorubicin together and then followed by another day of only ifosfamide. During this, she was also receiving daily radiation. By the end of month 7 she was done with treatment. They scheduled Gracey for a routine scan 3 months out. About a month and a half later, Gracey started having a lot of lower abdomen pain. At first, we thought it was from the side effects of the treatments she had finished, but as time went on, it became worse to the point where she couldn't even stand up straight. We ended up going in for an ultrasound to see what was going on. We had found out her cancer was back. She had an 11 cm tumor on her left ovary and another tumor in her gluteal muscle. Grace ended up going through another surgery to remove her ovary. The tumor was so big they had to open her up with an incision from her pubic bone to about 2 inches past her belly button. After surgery, she underwent another 6 months of chemo. This time it was a weekly chemo called paclitaxel. Once she finished this round of chemo, they then went in and removed the tumor in her gluteal muscle. For a while, Grace was doing pretty good. We thought we had seen a miracle (and in my eyes still did) she was glowing and thriving in her life from about April 2021 to November 2021. We then found out she had new tumors in her lung and one of them had to be removed ASAP. Grace then underwent another surgery to remove part of her lung in December 2021. Other than the lung tumors, everything else looked pretty good. We decided to start Grace on a daily chemo pill in hopes of slowing the growth of her tumors. She started this in January 2022. Gracey started having pain shortly after and they decided to do another routine scan to see how things were looking. Scans were done on March 15 2022. We felt like we were completely blindsided. Grace, like always, is a champ. Grace will be getting another surgery (3/29/2022) to remove her other ovary. There were other tumors found with that; there is not much left we can do. Even with all of this going on over the last 2 ½ years Grace still continues to pull straight A’s and never uses her cancer as an excuse. Grace is my warrior and anyone who meets her would know right away how amazing she is. She has a glow like no other. There is so much I could say about her, but the list would be never ending.

On top of their medical bills I am sure there are lots of extra expenses that come with this plus your everyday living.  Anything and everything will help out this family tremendously. 

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