Family struggles to cope with daughter’s returning Sarcoma.
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NORMAL---Beep. Beep. Beep. The thin green line climbs across the monitor with every frail beat of the heart – the silence of the room offset only by this faint noise and the slow release of air from the breathing machine. In the bed lies a teenage girl, skin void of all color, her limbs constrained– hiding the ravage fight that rages on within her fourteen-year-old body. Her family sits at her bedside, eyes red and unable to forge one more tear, bodies wrecked with the stress and toil of a cruel surprise.
This scene that is a nightmare for any loved one to imagine has become a reality of the Atzert family. Youngest of five, Gracie has been diagnosed with Metastatic Pulmonary Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cancer. Not even a month after being cured of Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS), the cancer came back and spread.
Last week, Gracie wiped her eyes and blinked hard trying to wake up from a nap. Just day's after finding out the gut-wrenching news.
“It was a week after she was diagnosed with Metastatic Pulmonary Soft Tissue Sarcoma that her body started getting weaker and taking a toll on her life,” said Gracie's mother. Little did Gracie and her family know at this point what drastic changes lay shortly ahead of them. There now is left a 5-foot-4 inch frame of the teenager on an 140 pound athletic build. "When Gracie had STS her weight would increase then decrease majorly. In the middle June when she was cured of STS she weighed 186 pounds. Then over the course from that day till last week she lost 20 pounds, then in the past week 15 more." Say's her primary doctor. Within the past week, “She was severely tired and had no desire to eat and was losing weight,” her mother said. "It wasn’t until she started vomiting several times in the middle of the night that we started to be alarmed.” Say's her parents.
Following a night of interrupted sleep, distressed breathing and throwing up blood, Gracie's parents took her to St. Anthony's Hospital where test's were done and the next afternoon a CT Scan. Results showed multiple tumors on her lung's. She was airlifted to St. Louis Children's Hospital for emergency surgery.
"I got there and they told me there were tumors on her lung's, and they were huge," her father said. Surgeons removed four large tumors from Gracie's lung's, She doesn't remember much about the night of her surgery, except people being worried about her and her telling them, "If I die, I'll be OK." "I've thought about all the memories I've had and the life that I've lived and just thought: 'Ya know, if I don't make it, then I'll be OK,' " she said. "I'm not scared." "You're going to make me start crying," her mother said to Gracie. At times the girl's tranquility ruffles her mom. "I've gotten to the point where I've yelled at her, 'Why don't you even care?' " her mother said. "But she just looks at me. She's internalized it, I think. "But to hear her say to me, 'If I die, I'm OK with that. I've had a great life,' tears started rolling. Gracie says, 'I know I'm only 14, but if it's my time to go, I accept that.' Her parent's say, 'Shut up, Don't say that.'
The teen's mom, hates to see her daughter suffer. But it also breaks her heart when Gracie says, "No, I'm sure I would not go through this again. "To keep her, we'd do anything," her parent's said. "But we can't force her to go through this treatment again. We won't." "I don't like the treatments at all," said Gracie, "The first day or so is OK. I can get through it, but then all the medications kick in and there's throwing up. Then afterwards, when I get home, it's just ... blah. I don't feel like doing anything and my body hurts. It's terrible." She hates chemotherapy. It leaves her, as her mom said, "Zombielike." Just the mention of it makes Gracie sigh loudly. Gracie said she doesn't want people to think her attitude toward cancer is a sign that she doesn't want to live. "There are times I've gotten down and wanted to quit," she said. "But all the support I've gotten from my family and none from friends, I knew I couldn't just quit. I had to keep going. They don't want to lose me."
"I actually have one friend who mean's a lot who is really in my life but also not at the same time, my friend Jasmine. She has helped me by texting me and telling me that it's not my fault that I have cancer. I will say that when she told me that, it meant so much. She's a friend I don't want to lose ever." Said Gracie.
“We are aware that we still have another long, tough road ahead of us, but after everything that has happened in this short span of a week I think our family, especially Gracie, is strong enough to take this head on. She is a fighter and I know she will come out of this, I have to believe,” Kenny, Gracie’s brother, said.
But amidst all of the loving support and prayers, Gracie still remains in the intensive care unit. A day after her emergency surgery, the background noise of the Disney channel now slightly drowning out the beeping of the monitor's for her. Her parents still sit faithfully by her side, hands clasped around their child’s finger's, faces forging smiles of courage. However, in spite of the battle that lay before her and the scares that she has overcome, worry has not set into Gracie’s face. Rather her expression is one of empowerment- because today, despite the two-year-long fight behind of her, she is alive.
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