
Im really not trying to do this but I need help.
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Hey. My name is Alex Berthelsen. Most of the people first seeing this will know who I am hopefully and that might help it spread around a little bit. Hopefully. So here it goes, around 6 or so months ago I started noticing a deep bruising feeling in my forhead right by the beginning of my right eyebrow. If I applied pressure or tried to pop a zit anywhere near that area, an awful headachey pain would erupt in my brain and I'd have to lie down and take some Tylenol to get rid of it. Didnt think much of it. When I was younger I got quite a few concussions and headaches have always been something I've had to deal with since then. But up until about a month ago things changed completely. Out of nowhere the vision in my right eye started to become so blurry that I could see only outlines and shapes of things and barely color. I just chalked it up as an eye infection and said I'd go into the doctor if it got worse. Well it did at an insanely rapid rate. Days after brushing off the vision impairments, my entire right eye began to swell up and started being pushed out of my head from swelling starting up and behind my eye. Thats when I immediately went into North Memorial Hospital Emergency Department in Robbinsdale MN near where I live. I went in and got an MRI and cat scan and found out that I have a tumor growing inside my right sinus and behind/overtop of my right eye. On Thanksgiving night after being discharged from North Memorial and told to follow up, I went back into the emergency room at a better hospital called Regions in St Paul. It was there that a biopsy had been done and they found out I have cancer. The lead doctor said that he had been doing this for 60 years and is their most experienced surgeon in the E.N.T. (ears,nose and throat) field by far and that he has never seen this rare of cancer ever and that it's the same as being hit by a bolt of lightning in the chances of me getting it. So as of right now I am currently in HCMC rapid treatment unit about to be transferred to The UofM tomorrow because the states most equipped doctors and teams will be able to give me the best chance of survival. I have what is called a rhabdo neuromyosarcoma tumor. Its only seen in children and adolescents and almost never in adults which makes it so rare.. This is why I'm making this post. I need help. With medical costs, with uber/lyft rides back and forth to appointments because the bus is unbearable for me head. The list goes on. Basically I just need help. I get it if no one responds. I feel like I sort of deserve that in a way because of some things I've done and people I've hurt. But I have to try anyway because I honestly have no other choice. So please if you know me, the real me, I am asking for your help. Even a dollar goes a long way when you can't work and can pretty much never leave the hospital.. but if you can't help I at least appreciate you taking the time to read the post and know whats going on with me and my life. Thank you and love you all! ❤
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Alex Berthelsen
Organizer
Minneapolis, MN
Annick Perrault
Beneficiary