My name is Britt, and I have the hugely unfortunate news to tell you all that my amazing big sister has recently been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, with only a few weeks left with us.My sister, Ely, is quite possibly the sweetest and most loving person that I have ever met. You see, Ely was born 41 years ago with Down Syndrome, but that never slowed her down or stopped her from being like a second mother to me. She was 16 years old when I was born, and her whole life has been a long march to achieve the unachievable.Upon Ely graduating high school, our family moved to Colorado where she was burdened with type 1 diabetes. A long struggle, her battle with diabetes has lasted over 20 years, and was only exacerbated with a near fatal pancreas transplant rejection in 2009. After falling back into type 1 diabetes, in January of this year we believed ourselves incredibly fortunate when a new pancreas became available for her, but this is only where things began to get dire.The transplant went well, and she immediately took to the new organ - - all seemed to be in the clear. However, just a couple of weeks after the surgery her skin became yellow, her eyes sunken, and she fell very sick. She was diagnosed with an incredibly rare post-transplant condition called "graft vs. host disease" in which the new organ attacks the host, as if the host is a foreign invader. After weeks of intense immunosuppressive therapies, she was declared cured of this serious condition. Though unfortunately, this is not the end of the problems, and is what leads me to writing this.As a hard side effect of the treatment for graft vs host disease, which is not uncommon to occur in transplant patients, Ely has been diagnosed with brain cancer - a rare b-cell lymphoma in her frontal and cerebellar cortices. Her condition is extremely rare, and it is only made worse by the fact that the cancer has lodged itself in her brain.Ely is the kindest person I have ever met, and has the heart of an innocent child. Those of you who have been privileged enough to have met and interacted with a Down Syndrome individual know what I mean when I tell you that they can light up a room simply with their presence. Which makes it all the more unfair that life has chosen her to suffer so greatly.With that, I am not the one to ask for money or help from others, but our medical expenses have gotten far out of hand for the treatment that she needs. Our bills have exceeded $50,000 as of now, and all she wants is to go to DisneyLand in her final days. Please help our family make her time with us memorable, and cope with her passing.