u/AnnoyedNurse2021

I’m seeing the passing of the beautiful young mother, 25 year old Cherele Monai, being shared all over FB. Her story has broken my heart to read about. It truly is so tragic. When I read the cancer type was a sarcoma, it rang a bell, because there are two other young people in our area who are fighting for their lives after being diagnosed with a sarcoma type of cancer. A 10 year old little girl, and an 18 year old young man. I don’t have the details of each individual’s specific type of sarcoma, but I am finding in my research, that this is a very rare type of cancer. Three young people all suffering from it, who are in somewhat a close proximity to each other, just raises questions.

Also, the neuroblastoma cases in our region. There have been 3 cases (that I have heard of), all within the last 5 years. One little girl has passed away from it. While two other kids are fighting for their lives. This is another supposedly “rare” type of cancer.

I’m just concerned for our children and young people. Is anyone researching why there are so many diagnoses of these rare cancer types all clustered together within our region? I’m digging deep into all the available research out there. I would love anyone’s perspective, or own personal research on the subject. There has to be something environmental, right?

Please, genuine feedback and conversation on this topic and why it might be such prevalence.

My neighborhood has a fox that appears to have mange. This thing is out all day long attempting to catch squirrels and rabbits. It definitely looks sick and hungry. I have my dog food bowl out during the day for my dogs. I’ve caught it in my yard eating from that bowl. I don’t want my dogs to get sick. It has been around for a few weeks to a month now. I’m wanting to do something about it, but not sure what exactly. I’ve looked into mange by mail treatment. I’ve contemplated trying to live trap it and relocate it. I just need to look up if that’s even a legal option or not. Are there any rescues that would come get it? Ideally, one of my neighbors would handle this situation and I wouldn’t have to do anything. But it appears that we all might be hoping for each other to handle this. Any recommendations? Should we just wait it out for nature to take its course. I would love to help the thing if there’s a feasible way.