Story
Name
Jahseh Mendoza
Injury/Illness
Cancer
Jahseh has been such a strong little warrior, even with the craziness happening around him. It all started right after his first birthday and we noticed a lump right under his right eye and we had thought he had run into something considering he was learning how to walk. We waited a week and there was no bruising or sign of anything so I decided to take him to the hospital and they diagnosed him with a cyst and sent us home with an ointment. We weren’t satisfied with his diagnosis and we went to a town named Albuquerque which is 3 hours away and we had gone to a hospital down there and they said they couldn’t do a CT scan on Jahseh unless he was dying. We left and went to the University of New Mexico hospital and that’s where Jahseh was diagnosed with Desmoid Fibromatosis. Jahseh has gone through 2 surgeries in less than 3 months... his tumor is classified aggressive and we recently transferred to Sanford hospital in Bismarck North Dakota which is 3 hours away from where we live now.