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In the fall of 2019, Alexa Morel, a busy working mom with a one-year-old

at home, took a weekend getaway to Cape Cod Massachusetts. It was the first weekend away from my son with my friends for a girls weekend.

So it was really just like a fun time to just take my mom hat off, like it was a weekend of laughing, going to the beach and going out to eat.

Well, it didn't and going out to eat.

Well, it didn't really turn out like that.

Because Alexa began noticing something was wrong with her body.

There was blood in her stool.

It was on and off for almost two weeks and then at the end of two weeks it was a lot of blood and at that point I was like

I made a mental note like okay if this doesn't go in two weeks I'm I'm gonna go to the doctors

Alexa did eventually have to go to the doctor her primary care physician thought it was

probably hemorrhoids not a huge deal but ordered a colonoscopy just in case. Well that colonoscopy led to a CT

scan the next morning, which led to an agonizing weight. I kept calling the hospital to see if there was any update and at 4 PM is when I got the news that unfortunately not only do they see a tumor in my colon, so essentially colon cancer.

So I at that point, I didn't think it was gonna get any worse,

and then he kept talking and said,

well, I also see it in your liver,

and so sorry, this means that you're stage four.

We were told that I had stage four cancer as I'm holding my

13 month old in my lab. So it was just like I like an out-of-body experience is the only way that I can describe it. I was just like in

complete shock and disbelief that will always stand as the worst day of my life.

Alexa was just 29 years old.

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