Help Angelina fight Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome!

Angelina has been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of ovarian cancer due to Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS). This disease is rare, incurable, and in most cases deadly. PJS is a genetic mutation that greatly increases a person’s risk for developing cancer. The cancerous tumors found in these patients is also very rare and only specific to this disease. Very little is known about this disease or the cancer that these patients develop. Although Angelina’s ovarian cancer was caught early, this unfortunately is just the beginning of a lifetime battle against a debilitating disease for not only her but possibly her two precious young sons, Hunter and Isaiah.

By starting this GoFundMe, we are hoping to take some of the day to day stress off of her family’s shoulders. Angelina is the sole provider for her family and taking time off of work could be detrimental to their survival. We are hoping with these contributions no matter how small that she will be able to focus on her health and spending time with her family. We understand that not everyone is in a position to contribute monetarily but please share this GoFundMe endlessly, please show your support in her time of need, we may even help find Angelina’s family a specialist.

Angelina doesn’t have many options when it comes to treating this horrible disease.  Clinical trials are limited most are cancelled before they even begin for a lack of participants. The only care doctors can provide are rigorous, extremely invasive, and sometimes painful tests done yearly to insure there are no new growths forming. Angelina’s body will continue to produce polyps and tumors for the rest of her life, this is a lifelong battle for her and possibly her two sons. Angelina is in the process of talking to a geneticist so testing can be done on Hunter and Isaiah. Parents that have been diagnosed with PJS have a 50% chance of passing this horrific disease onto their Children. Children who are diagnosed with PJS have to go through the same rigorous testing as their parents.

Angelina has already had multiple complications due to this disease; she has had multiple surgeries, one surgery for intussusception, an extremely painful medical condition which results in major emergency surgery where part of the intestines is removed. Children are at an even higher risk of developing intussusception, which means Hunter and Isaiah have to be monitored closely. When she awoke from this last surgery in February two days after her birthday, she had a cancer diagnoses, a full hysterectomy, and an appendectomy. Three tumors had formed in what they believe to have been a relatively short amount of time, she began to show signs 6 months prior to the tumor’s removal. The two smaller tumors were benign, the largest that grew to the size of a grapefruit was malignant. Thankfully the cancer was localized but this will always be a constant battle.

Angelina is strong and we know she can get through this, but she needs as much help as she can get, with each Chemotherapy infusion she grows weaker and has to take more time off of work. Thankfully her work is very supportive and understanding of her condition, but being the amazingly driven person, she is she refuses to take too much time off of work. She is such an amazing mother and provider that she tends to push herself a little too hard to ensure her family's well being. These contributions will help more than you know!

I have included a few websites for more information.

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/peutz-jeghers-syndrome

https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/peutz-jeghers-syndrome