Will Garcia needs your help

Hi my name is Jessica I am Will’s wife. I wanted to update everyone as to how Will is doing. As you all know Will has stage 4 metastatic melanoma. Last year we did a number of things to help get the cancer under control and the treatment did help for about a year. Will’s cancer has began to spread again. He has cancer in his lungs, liver, spleen, on his kidney and his bones. This time around it is very aggressive and growing fast. He has a sizable tumor on his back which is growing very close to his spine. This tumor is the most concerning out of all of them because it’s so close to his spine. We did try to surgical remove it but that was unsuccessful because it’s too close the spine and wrap in some major nerve bundles that run down his leg. He hasn’t been feeling well and losing some weight but he is still pushing himself. Even with stage 4 cancer he shows up to work everyday to make sure his patients are taken care and so is his family. He is still working at Hackettstown Medical Center ER, Morris  County Surgery Center and he still takes call at Newton Medical center PACU when there are emergency surgeries in the middle of the night. He still try’s to make it to as many fire calls in town as he can. He never wants to let anyone down. Will is starting radiation this week and then he will go into the hospital to do a clinical trial. If you know anything about radiation it can make you very tired and the dose they have to give him is guaranteed to just that. Then we will go right into the trial. We will do a week of heavy duty chemotherapy which will wipe out all of his immune system so he won’t be able to leave the hospital for about a month. The next step is something a bit amazing. The doctors took some of the tumor and sent it off to a lab where they extracted the lymphocytes (these are the cells in your body that fight off things) and they are going to multiplying them to about 8,000. Everyone has about 8-10,000 of these cells in their body all the time. These cells are pulled from his tumor because they know how to get into the tumor and try and fight it. So we wipe all his cells out of his body and put back the cells that know how to get in and hope they can do what they were made to do, kill the tumor. He is ready to fight this all the way but we need help while he is laid up.

I want to thank everyone who has helped in the past and anyone that can help us now. We are going on round two and we are very hopeful this time we can kick cancers butt. We really can’t do this without everyone support and love so thank you for always being there for us. ❤️