text:  This is On Point. I'm Meghna Chakrabarty. This wasn't supposed to happen, of course. Alexa was building a family and a career. She had a plan, a plan that did not have room for stage four colon cancer and did not have room for spending long days at the hospital. But suddenly, there she was. I was recommended to do really strong chemo for colon cancer, which going into it knew that it was a possibility of me losing my hair, and I did lose it.