Support Alessia Through Her Recovery

This is Alessia and her family, here is her story:

Right after our family reunion, on September 2nd, our sweet, loving nine-year-old Alessia felt sick and experienced dizziness and loss of consciousness, and she was taken immediately to the emergency room. They performed a lot of blood work and conducted an MRI on her brain. Soon after, we were briefed that the MRI showed a tumor on the brain.

On the same day, she was transferred by ambulance to a neurosurgery hospital approximately 225 miles away from her home in Galati, Romania.

The neurosurgeon looked through her blood tests and MRI results and performed surgery the following day, successfully removing 95% of the tumor.

After 3 weeks of intensive care and slow, painful recovery, she was transferred to a Children's Hospital Research Medical Center specialized in Physical Therapy to regain her ability to walk, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and to begin Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy, which will be a long process. The hospital is approximately 300 miles away from their hometown, and it is very expensive with lodging and expenses.

Right now, her parents are out of work, and we are trying to take some of the burden off of them.

Anything you can do will help, and thank you in advance.