Jaxson's Medical Fund
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Jaxson Breazeale is an eighteen year old boy, who has a loving family of a mother, father, and brother. The family has lived in Rogue River, Oregon since he was just in kindergarten and they love their town and community. Jaxson's mom Patty, an optimistic and loving woman, was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, which kills motor
nerves but not sensory nerves, in 2008. Within the past few years the disease has progressed rather quickly and she no longer has much ability to move, aside from little in her fingers and her neck and facial muscles. This being tough on the family already, did not prepare them for what happened April of last year. Jaxson was in his junior year of high school, working at the Subway in town just down the road from his house, active in his church's youth group, and also experiencing chronic back and joint pain.
The family had taken him into doctors on multiple different occasions and he had been misdiagnosed repetitively. On the 30th, he suddenly lost all mobility in his legs and was airlifted to Portland to find two tumors on his spinal chord constricting almost half of its circumference. He had surgery that night and was diagnosed with Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma, a spreading childhood bone cancer. He began treatment and now goes through Chemo every two weeks, and the tumors have spread throughout his body. On his off weeks, Jaxson likes to talk to family, play video games on his computer, work online towards graduating high school, and he says he feels pretty much normal. On the days when he is in treatment, he deals with nausea and fatigue.
The house income comes mostly through Jaxson’s father and help from his older brother Jonathan, who Patty says she wouldn’t know what they’d do without. The Breazeale family lives in a small two story house, with carpet floors. With two of the three house occupants unable to get around without wheelchairs, having bedrooms upstairs is quite inconvenient. Patty most nights sleeps in her chair and the two of them only have only one bathroom accessible downstairs. The area they do have available to them, is floored in old carpet, which isn’t easy to move around on. The family would like to move into a house that would be easy to simply exist and do normal things in. For example, using the restroom and bathing, sleeping in their own beds, having their personal items handy, eating, and using Jaxson’s physical therapy equipment.
Jaxson’s dad does most of the shopping and cleaning around the house, along with work, and taking care of himself and his family. Jaxson was granted a makeawish, and had wished to travel by air to South Carolina. But as seeing, he does not averagely feel up to even getting up and getting ready for church Sunday mornings, a flight across the country is not entirely possible for them. Patty says that she would like to have the ability to go on a nice, short, family trip to the Oregon Coast, or something similar, because they haven’t been able to vacation in a very long time. The coast is close to home and something simple for them to enjoy together. Maybe to sit and watch the waves in the sand and enjoy the outside, and be in one another’s company in different surroundings.
Anything is helpful for this wonderful family. They would be so grateful for the opportunity to make their day to day lives a little bit easier. Reaching this goal would mean a more accessible and livable environment and lifestyle for the Breazeale home.
If you can't afford to donate money, the family says prayers would be a blessing as well! Share, share, share!
nerves but not sensory nerves, in 2008. Within the past few years the disease has progressed rather quickly and she no longer has much ability to move, aside from little in her fingers and her neck and facial muscles. This being tough on the family already, did not prepare them for what happened April of last year. Jaxson was in his junior year of high school, working at the Subway in town just down the road from his house, active in his church's youth group, and also experiencing chronic back and joint pain.
The family had taken him into doctors on multiple different occasions and he had been misdiagnosed repetitively. On the 30th, he suddenly lost all mobility in his legs and was airlifted to Portland to find two tumors on his spinal chord constricting almost half of its circumference. He had surgery that night and was diagnosed with Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma, a spreading childhood bone cancer. He began treatment and now goes through Chemo every two weeks, and the tumors have spread throughout his body. On his off weeks, Jaxson likes to talk to family, play video games on his computer, work online towards graduating high school, and he says he feels pretty much normal. On the days when he is in treatment, he deals with nausea and fatigue.
The house income comes mostly through Jaxson’s father and help from his older brother Jonathan, who Patty says she wouldn’t know what they’d do without. The Breazeale family lives in a small two story house, with carpet floors. With two of the three house occupants unable to get around without wheelchairs, having bedrooms upstairs is quite inconvenient. Patty most nights sleeps in her chair and the two of them only have only one bathroom accessible downstairs. The area they do have available to them, is floored in old carpet, which isn’t easy to move around on. The family would like to move into a house that would be easy to simply exist and do normal things in. For example, using the restroom and bathing, sleeping in their own beds, having their personal items handy, eating, and using Jaxson’s physical therapy equipment.
Jaxson’s dad does most of the shopping and cleaning around the house, along with work, and taking care of himself and his family. Jaxson was granted a makeawish, and had wished to travel by air to South Carolina. But as seeing, he does not averagely feel up to even getting up and getting ready for church Sunday mornings, a flight across the country is not entirely possible for them. Patty says that she would like to have the ability to go on a nice, short, family trip to the Oregon Coast, or something similar, because they haven’t been able to vacation in a very long time. The coast is close to home and something simple for them to enjoy together. Maybe to sit and watch the waves in the sand and enjoy the outside, and be in one another’s company in different surroundings.
Anything is helpful for this wonderful family. They would be so grateful for the opportunity to make their day to day lives a little bit easier. Reaching this goal would mean a more accessible and livable environment and lifestyle for the Breazeale home.
If you can't afford to donate money, the family says prayers would be a blessing as well! Share, share, share!
Organizer
Joslyn Teska
Organizer
Rogue River, OR