If you know Alex, you know he has never had it easy. From the time he was born he has been fighting for his life. He was born with a bad heart and had multiple heart surgeries within the first 11 years of his life. Alex then had a heart transplant when he was 11 years old. He was healthy until they found a tumor that led to the diagnosis of Rhabdomyosarcoma. He went through 48 rounds of chemo treatment and beat it. He has always been a fighter. He has been cancer free until February 2022. He is now 24 years old. We noticed a lump on his neck that just kept growing. Ronda took him in and with his history they sent him to get a biopsy. A couple days later, we found out cancer was back. He was diagnosed with Lymphoma. Shortly after that, they found out it was Burkitts Lymphoma. Rare, aggressive, and fast growing. The tumor on his neck started to affect his whole body. They took him in for scans and realized they needed to start treatment right away. With every treatment and after every course of chemo, there were hiccups. Alex pushed through. He was getting better. That was until his counts started to drop. Eventually they dropped so low he hasn’t been able to do chemo. That brings us to recent events. They decided that since he can’t do chemo and was doing well, that they were going to do scans and a bone marrow biopsy to see if treatment was working. About a week before the biopsy, he started to go downhill again. Very sleepy, nauseous, all the symptoms were back. Alex had the biopsy this Monday, 8/29/22. We got the results today, 9/1/22. The results were that 80% of his bone marrow is cancer and that his calcium was life threatening high. The doctors informed us that the hospitals in Billings were no longer able to help and they were out of options. They admitted him in Billings to lower his calcium levels but they have sent him to Stanford hospital in California and he will be leaving on the help flight in the morning to get him there as soon as possible. Stanford is planning on starting a different course of chemo treatments as soon as he gets there as well as discussing other plans of treatment for down the road which we will update as they come. Alex is the strongest, most courageous person I know. He is not done fighting. He can and will get through this. He has been through too much in his life. If you can please help, we would be more than thankful during this difficult time. Help us fight this with Alex. If you would like to donate through Venmo, you can do so “@Alexs-Courage” Xoxo Alex’s crew.