Help Chelsie and her boys get to Disneyworld!
Hello everyone, with our worst nightmare come true our dearest friend, daughter, grandaughter, sister, amazing mother of two wonderful boys has gotten the worst news anyone had ever expected. On August 24 Chelsies Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer has metastized into her brain and lungs. After just finishing months of chemo and radiation treatments fighting for her life and ringing the bell less than fourty eight hours prior in hopes of a new light on life with so many hopes and wishes and plans of the future they all got shot down one test after another. In short her oncologist and radiologist are giving her only a six to twelve month life expectancy that comes with 10 radiation treatments along with steroids to reduce swelling in the brain and in hopes to have help with more symptom free time with her boys. This family has dealt with so much devasting news in the past few years, and it just never seems to come to an end. I will share her story below with more details. In her last wishes, which you imagine is extremly hard to fit a lifetime of wishes and hopes and dreams into such a short time but Chelsie's wish is to bring her boys to Disney World as a lasting memory for all. This is not an easy time for her or her family. Please donate to this amazing women and her boys to give them the gift of a lifetime with memories her boys can cherish forever. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
On January 23, 2020 I sent Morgan (T-pot) to school with his brother Wyatt just like I would any other day and proceeded to my new job.
Morgan was playing tag with some friends, like any other little boy when he fell off the playground equipment and hit his head. I received a call from the school saying he had fallen and was in pain and complaining from his fall. It felt like a simple call about what I thought was a bump on the head but quickly turned in to a mother's worst nightmare.
T-pot had suffered a skull fracture and an epidural bleed which manifested to a clot form creating pressure to the brain. This pressure lead to a hemorrhagic stroke, and other brain damage, to include a portion of his brain stem. T-Pot fought hard and survived, 4 craniotomys, now has a plate to cover the entire right side of his brain. He has some permanent damage from his accident that we has to work to over come, he is half blind due to a left vision feild cut. He had suffered damage to his hypothalamus and now suffered from Hypothalmic obesity. That has lead to some new complications we are still working on correcting, seizures in his sleep and sever sleep apnea. He is now working with several specialists to help get his sleep apnea, and sizzuers undercontol.
Now here is my second worst nightmare! Not being here to finish helping raise my boys! 12/23/2020 I was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. I had a very large triple negative carcinoma in my chest wall that had spread to my lyphnodes in my neck and chest. In true Butte fashion I fought my ass off, I was in chemo therapy from Dec 2020 till June 2021. In June I had a pet scan and it showed no active cancer cells! Then immediately stared radation therapy a total of 33 treatments to ensure all the cancer cells in my chest wall and lypnones were sterilized. Aug 22 I woke up with sever pain and pressure in my head, and went to the ER to have a CT scan and they found a suspicious lesion. Monday they quickly got me in to a brain MRI and full body CT. 8/24/21 I found out that I my cancer had metastasis to my brain they found 7 tumors in my brain and 2 on my lungs. Chemo can not penetrate the brain so chemo is not help and my body is still recovering from the last 7 months of chemo. My only treatment options is to be on steroids to reduce the swelling in my brain and undergo 10 full brain redations starting next week to shrink down what tumors are in my brain to get me more symptom free time.
I am already showing some neurological symptoms, and have been also placed one preventive seizure medications. This 10 day of full brain radation will be in hope to get me 6 to 12 more months with my family! This is my last few months to make memories with my boys that they will have to cherish for the rest of their lives, they are only 8 and 10. There will never be enough time but I am going to make the most of what we have left!
