#Alex Cesar 2xCancerSurvivor looking for a 3rd win
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Continued care for Alex Cesar,
December 2019,
Today Alex is doing well with his immunotherapy. This protein therapy is helping to keep his cancer at bay. Although, this is not a cure, Alex’s immune system has shrunken some of the cancer around his lung and heart. After 5 months of chemotherapy and surgery we have returned to Juneau. Prior to the discovery of Alex new cancer diagnosis, I was working in Oregon and will be returning to work in Alaska for good. Alex was attending the university of Alaska southeast and we hope to get him enrolled once again. It’s been very difficult to focus on anything else but our time together. We have finally settled back home and found some normalcy in our lives. Alex will continue to be cared for by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance once every three weeks with infusion therapy. I hope to gain employers health coverage insurance for him after a few months of work. We have a long way to go and we can only hope for a new treatment. Thank you all for your continued support.
Pic. Prior to surgery.
Well! It’s been almost more than we could handle, but we are still, moving forward. 2days ago, we were given the devastating news that alex’s surgeons were unable to remove his cancer. The last few days have been heartbreaking, seeing our son lose so much of his health, without any benefit. I had to apologize to Alex for encouraging him to go along with, something, so brutal. It is a most difficult thing for me to make this public, but I know so many of you are waiting for good news and all of you have been more than good friends. I will always consider you my family. We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts, for all of your love and support. I wish, I was able to call each and every one of you personally, but there are to many of you. And, this, we are grateful for! I could not ask for better friends or a better community. Without your support, I would not have been able to spend so much time with my son and gain so many memories over the past 5 months. Today, Alex made some tremendous progress. He is getting stronger and was able to get on his feet. Your thoughts, prayers, and love have been overwhelming and none have gone unnoticed. Yesterday, I quit my job in order to provide all the care I can, for my son, Alex, and would be extremely grateful for any additional support. Our hope is to try an immunotherapy or some alternative medicines. We can not predict the future, but we can hope for a reprieve. Our plan is to get Alex strong enough to return him home to Alaska and to enjoy his family and friends. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers and help us to continue sharing Alex’s campaign. Although, this news is discouraging, we will not give up our hope. I know some of you don’t know Alex personally, but he has all the best qualities of his family and has strengths, none of us, have. I plan to post some pictures of us over the past few months and hopefully some new ones, but this, maybe, my last update for awhile. I want you all to know, how much, it means to me, that, you all have come together in support of my son. Thank you!
Original campaign,
It is with a heavy heart, I tell you that my son has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung. There is no cure for this type of cancer and my son will have one chance to beat it. My son, Alexander J.S. Cesar, is fighting his 3rd cancer, the later 2 have been sub-cancers which have been caused from radiation therapy from his battle with leukemia at the age of 6. Alex is now 20 years old and has grown to be a loving, kind, and generous young adult. Although, he has had many setbacks from chemo therapy, radiation, and a “grateful” bone marrow donation. He has completed high school and finished his first year of college. Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer, which, has no cure! Our son Alex has one chance to live. If this cancer has not spread and he is determined to be healthy enough, Alex will go through a series of chemo therapies to shrink the cancer cells, then a difficult surgery to remove his surrounding lung or possibly his lung, followed by more radiation. It appears that Alex has one of three types of mesothelioma that is operable if his cancer has not spread from his lung. If all these thing can be done for him, he will have a long an arduous recovery. Alex will need extensive physical therapy after this extensive life threatening surgery. As disheartening, emotional, and fearful as this is, we must be positive and go forward. The financial burden has also had a enormous pressure of its own. After providing care during his one year hospitalization during his first bout with leukemia, we were hoping to provide Alex with all normal things parents wish for their children. The financial support we are asking of you will mainly go towards living expenses in Seattle’s medical district and any additional out of pocket costs to his immediate caregivers. Our family resides in Alaska. Alex is of Native American, Irish, and Filipino decent. We anticipate his stay in Washington to be no less than six months and up to a year. Although we have some family in Washington his therapy will be in the Seattle area. My elderly parents will be caring for him while his mother and I will be traveling back and forth from work. It is imperative that we keep up our insurance and it will be the hardest thing for us to have to leave him during his time of need. As parents and his primary caregivers, we will be missing much of our regular work schedules to provide our love and support, traveling every chance we get to be by Alex’s side. It is with great humility that we ask our friends, family, and strangers for the financial support needed to keep our son healthy and in good spirits. Although, we find God to be a factor in all of our thoughts, we are asking our communities to help us with needs beyond our means. Please find it in your hearts to give Alexander Cesar every opportunity to spend with his parents and his family during this most difficult time in his life. Alex is a strong young adult that has the courage to beat cancer one more time. All our love from Alexander Cesar family.
Update: We had good news today. Alex is tentatively eligible for surgery and will begin his chemo therapy this coming week in preparation for surgery in about three months. Although, he is not eligible for a clinical trial, due to his prior leukemia treatments, it has been a great relief to know he has the opportunity for treatment. During his first battle with cancer, Alex was given the choice to join a clinical trial which has helped develop new treatments for patients that followed. We hope Alex’s treatments will further enhance the understanding of these diseases and give those stricken by them greater hope. Fred Hutchinson and the SCCA along with the University of Washington Medical Centers have given Alex a second and now we hope a third chance at life. We are so proud to be a part of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and their devotion to continually improve therapies, which, will help patients survive cancers and live longer lives.
December 2019,
Today Alex is doing well with his immunotherapy. This protein therapy is helping to keep his cancer at bay. Although, this is not a cure, Alex’s immune system has shrunken some of the cancer around his lung and heart. After 5 months of chemotherapy and surgery we have returned to Juneau. Prior to the discovery of Alex new cancer diagnosis, I was working in Oregon and will be returning to work in Alaska for good. Alex was attending the university of Alaska southeast and we hope to get him enrolled once again. It’s been very difficult to focus on anything else but our time together. We have finally settled back home and found some normalcy in our lives. Alex will continue to be cared for by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance once every three weeks with infusion therapy. I hope to gain employers health coverage insurance for him after a few months of work. We have a long way to go and we can only hope for a new treatment. Thank you all for your continued support.
Pic. Prior to surgery.
Well! It’s been almost more than we could handle, but we are still, moving forward. 2days ago, we were given the devastating news that alex’s surgeons were unable to remove his cancer. The last few days have been heartbreaking, seeing our son lose so much of his health, without any benefit. I had to apologize to Alex for encouraging him to go along with, something, so brutal. It is a most difficult thing for me to make this public, but I know so many of you are waiting for good news and all of you have been more than good friends. I will always consider you my family. We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts, for all of your love and support. I wish, I was able to call each and every one of you personally, but there are to many of you. And, this, we are grateful for! I could not ask for better friends or a better community. Without your support, I would not have been able to spend so much time with my son and gain so many memories over the past 5 months. Today, Alex made some tremendous progress. He is getting stronger and was able to get on his feet. Your thoughts, prayers, and love have been overwhelming and none have gone unnoticed. Yesterday, I quit my job in order to provide all the care I can, for my son, Alex, and would be extremely grateful for any additional support. Our hope is to try an immunotherapy or some alternative medicines. We can not predict the future, but we can hope for a reprieve. Our plan is to get Alex strong enough to return him home to Alaska and to enjoy his family and friends. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers and help us to continue sharing Alex’s campaign. Although, this news is discouraging, we will not give up our hope. I know some of you don’t know Alex personally, but he has all the best qualities of his family and has strengths, none of us, have. I plan to post some pictures of us over the past few months and hopefully some new ones, but this, maybe, my last update for awhile. I want you all to know, how much, it means to me, that, you all have come together in support of my son. Thank you!
Original campaign,
It is with a heavy heart, I tell you that my son has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung. There is no cure for this type of cancer and my son will have one chance to beat it. My son, Alexander J.S. Cesar, is fighting his 3rd cancer, the later 2 have been sub-cancers which have been caused from radiation therapy from his battle with leukemia at the age of 6. Alex is now 20 years old and has grown to be a loving, kind, and generous young adult. Although, he has had many setbacks from chemo therapy, radiation, and a “grateful” bone marrow donation. He has completed high school and finished his first year of college. Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer, which, has no cure! Our son Alex has one chance to live. If this cancer has not spread and he is determined to be healthy enough, Alex will go through a series of chemo therapies to shrink the cancer cells, then a difficult surgery to remove his surrounding lung or possibly his lung, followed by more radiation. It appears that Alex has one of three types of mesothelioma that is operable if his cancer has not spread from his lung. If all these thing can be done for him, he will have a long an arduous recovery. Alex will need extensive physical therapy after this extensive life threatening surgery. As disheartening, emotional, and fearful as this is, we must be positive and go forward. The financial burden has also had a enormous pressure of its own. After providing care during his one year hospitalization during his first bout with leukemia, we were hoping to provide Alex with all normal things parents wish for their children. The financial support we are asking of you will mainly go towards living expenses in Seattle’s medical district and any additional out of pocket costs to his immediate caregivers. Our family resides in Alaska. Alex is of Native American, Irish, and Filipino decent. We anticipate his stay in Washington to be no less than six months and up to a year. Although we have some family in Washington his therapy will be in the Seattle area. My elderly parents will be caring for him while his mother and I will be traveling back and forth from work. It is imperative that we keep up our insurance and it will be the hardest thing for us to have to leave him during his time of need. As parents and his primary caregivers, we will be missing much of our regular work schedules to provide our love and support, traveling every chance we get to be by Alex’s side. It is with great humility that we ask our friends, family, and strangers for the financial support needed to keep our son healthy and in good spirits. Although, we find God to be a factor in all of our thoughts, we are asking our communities to help us with needs beyond our means. Please find it in your hearts to give Alexander Cesar every opportunity to spend with his parents and his family during this most difficult time in his life. Alex is a strong young adult that has the courage to beat cancer one more time. All our love from Alexander Cesar family.
Update: We had good news today. Alex is tentatively eligible for surgery and will begin his chemo therapy this coming week in preparation for surgery in about three months. Although, he is not eligible for a clinical trial, due to his prior leukemia treatments, it has been a great relief to know he has the opportunity for treatment. During his first battle with cancer, Alex was given the choice to join a clinical trial which has helped develop new treatments for patients that followed. We hope Alex’s treatments will further enhance the understanding of these diseases and give those stricken by them greater hope. Fred Hutchinson and the SCCA along with the University of Washington Medical Centers have given Alex a second and now we hope a third chance at life. We are so proud to be a part of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and their devotion to continually improve therapies, which, will help patients survive cancers and live longer lives.
Organizer
Cesar Robert
Organizer
Juneau, AK