Help Danielle FIGHT Her Cancer Battle

This is my Daughter Danielle Alexander. She has written her story below please Read and Donate.

She still has a Long Fight ahead..Also Many Financial Burdens from this Journey..I don't want her and Her children to lose their Home. She has worked so hard to get where she is. PLEASE HELP!!

PRAY FOR US!!

THANK YOU....

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Yeah, this is story all about how, my life got flipped turned upside down…

October 1, 2023 I had found a lump in my breast. At first, I assumed it was probably the same scenario from when I was 18 and found one. It was no big issue, had a lumpectomy and it was found to be benign. But as a few days passed I noticed pain, swelling, it was hot to the touch and very sensitive/painful for even the slightest of touching. For a mom that doesn’t go to the doctor unless I’m basically dying, I kept putting it off thinking it would ease up in a few days. I’d be fine!! But I kept having this nagging feeling inside that something wasn’t ok and that I needed to take it seriously. I made an appointment to see a gyno. Which then turned into mammogram. Went to the mammogram and that turned into an ultrasound. Then that turned into biopsies. All the while, everyone just kept reassuring me it was all just precautionary and that it probably was nothing to worry about. They said I had very dense breast tissue and that is why they were taking extra steps.

December 23, 2023 my husband and I are out Christmas shopping for the kiddos and we get the call. THE dreaded call. I knew as soon as I seen the number pop up it was bad news. The lady said “I’m sorry to give you this news right before Christmas but 4 out of 5 of your biopsies came back positive for cancer”, Get this y’all, the one that didn’t come back as cancer was the lump I found myself in October that got me to make the appointment in the first place. “It was of no concern”

We had Christmas as normal and kept the news to ourselves for the most part. We wanted to wait until we had all the details before telling the boys of what’s to come.

I’ll fast forward through all the boring details. Because of Christmas, New Years, and the ice storm that shut us down for a while all of my appts kept being delayed. Which made me extremely nervous because I was told I had a very rare aggressive form of breast cancer and that 8 tumors were found in my breast and 6 in my lymph nodes. Jan. 8th I had my port surgery done so that chemo could be easily administered. I was finally to the scans, scans and more scans part. After a month from the bad news day, I met with my oncologist to go over the scan results where he let me know the cancer was nowhere else in my body but right breast and lymph nodes. He said that I had Stage 2 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I would start chemotherapy Jan 24.

My treatment plan has been 12 weekly chemo treatments of Keytruda/Taxol/Carbo and 4 treatments every 21 days of Keytruda/Cytoxan/Adriomycin aka “red devil”. I have endured all of these and have only one chemo treatment left June 21st and I’ll get to ring that bell!!!!!! Which also signifies that I will be on to the next chapter which will be a double mastectomy with reconstruction. Followed by 25 radiation treatments. And I will continue doing the Keytruda immunotherapy for 9 months, which means my port will have to stay in and I’ll have to go every 21 days for those to be injected. I also had the gene testing to see if I had the mutated gene that could’ve been passed to my children and that came back negative!! Praise the Lord!!

Before I started the harder chemo, I had scans done to see how my body reacted to the treatments. My tumors shrunk more than 75% and the ones in my lymph nodes can’t even be seen. I will rescan after I finish chemo completely before surgery. But awesome news!!!!!!!

I will say one of the worst parts of it all was the trauma of the hair loss. When I first found out about the cancer and that I was going to be losing my hair for sure I decided to do something I had always wanted to do but was too chicken. And that was dying it purple. So I chopped it short and went purple. Fell in love with it. After three treatments of chemo it started coming out in chunks. Wads and wads of hair coming out on my pillow and in the shower. So I decided to buy some fresh clippers and had my bestie come over and shave it the rest of the way off. We had lots of giggles doing crazy funny haircuts before we got to the buzz cut. I will forever cherish those memories. ❤️

I’m not sharing my story for pity or likes or anything like that but ladies please take lumps seriously. I’m only 39 having to endure all of this. We aren’t told to get regular mammograms until we are 50 or have family history of it. I have no breast cancer or any type of cancer on either side of my family history. Lucky me!!!

I will say that even though this has all been the hardest thing ever to endure I have took it like a champ. I have worked through it all. I didn’t miss a single day until I got to the harder chemo and so far I’ve missed 3 days. I had chemo yesterday and just something about knowing I only have one more of those awful things is giving me strength. Today I feel like absolute trash, no energy, no appetite, food tastes disgusting but my thumbs still work so I thought I would finally share to empower others. Early detection, self exams, take it seriously ladies. The lump I found was nothing to worry about but had I not went and just kept living life I don’t even want to think what kind of situation I would’ve been facing. Triple negative is super aggressive and I could’ve been terminal by the time it was found if I wouldn’t have listened to that small voice inside.

But on a good note, we also closed on our very first home on Feb 7th during all this insanity. And it is everything I’ve dreamed of and more. It has been a little slice of heaven through all the hell.

I want to thank all the peeps that have knew all the above and have been there for me through this journey. I wouldn’t have made it this far without y’all. ❤️