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Hi, my name is John Burthe LaCroix Jr. AKA “Optimus John”(I’ll tell you how I got this name soon). I am 9 years old and a typical boy. I love playing outside, riding my bike and my Uncle Louie’s four wheeler (which I can drive myself now), playing with my cousins and our pets, playing with insects, spiders and I love snakes and my cousin's bearded dragon Alfonzo (fyi my mom hates this fact lol). I love big trucks, especially Fords like my Dad and my favorite famous person is Donald Trump, also just like my Dad. I have two little sisters who I love & love to annoy lol. I am a big prankster who loves to scare people and make them laugh, especially my Mom and my little sisters and my girl cousins. I am very outgoing but also shy. So now that you know a little about me, I am going to tell you how I got the name Optimus John. On July 25th I had really bad pain in my right side, so my Mom took me to the emergency room. When we got there they ran a bunch of test (ughhh which felt like it took forever & fyi i hate being at the hospital), one of which was a CT Scan which showed a mass on my pelvic region and a spot on both of my lungs, so I was transferred to yet another hospital OLOL Children’s, where they ran even more test and scheduled me for surgery on July 27th. My mom was really scared and I just wanted to go home. The morning of my surgery my Aunt Skottie and my big cousin Lona (AKA “My Emotional Support Person” thanks to my Mom) came to show their support. Well right before surgery I was really scared, so my Aunt told me that when I get to the OR and go to sleep I would become a robot and then I would wake up and be normal (unless I was a weirdo like Lona lol). Well while i was in the OR being a robot the Doctors discovered that i had malignant nodules on my abdominal wall, my bladder, my chest wall, the spot on both lungs and the mass on my pelvic region was malignant as well, so when i woke i had a mediport aka my button and i was not happy and did not want to be a robot ever again so my Aunt Skottie told me I wasn't a robot i was the most powerful Transformer of all Optimus John (also because I could kick Optimus Prime's butt) so that's how i got the name Optimus John and my button allows me to transform into a the most powerful superhero of all as well as a yellow Chevy Corvette. Once the Doctors found the malignant nodules they sent off some of the tissue to be biopsied (which also took forever). Once the biopsies were finally done, I was diagnosed with Epithelioid Mesothelioma, which by the way is extremely rare. So now I have to go through treatment to kill the stupid CANCER cells that have mutated in my body, which makes me really sick and my Mommy really sad (She is my superhero even though she calls me hers), but cancer doesn't stand a chance against the most powerful superhero of all OPTIMUS JOHN. So follow my story and watch me kick cancer's butt.

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