McAlexander: ‘I want my life to be normal again’

Jacy McAlexander doesn’t remember a lot about the first time he got sick.
As a second-grade student, Jacy was diagnosed in 2009 with Ewing’s sarcoma, a relatively rare form of cancer that causes to tumors to grow on bones or around bones. After a surgery to remove a tumor, and part of the rib on which it was located, and an aggressive treatment plan comprised of radiation and chemotherapy, Jacy was declared to be cancer-free.
“I remember some of the painful things like bone marrow tests – they really hurt,” Jacy said in an email to The Graphic-Advocate last week. “I remember some of the other tests that hurt.”
The two hours he spent in an MRI chamber stuck with him – the heat he felt and the cramped space that prevented him from moving around. The food during his treatment wasn’t very good, he said, and he remembers getting really homesick. 
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