Yes, it's OK to laugh with 'Alexa & Katie,' the new Netflix show about a teen with cancer
Alexa Mendoza has cancer. But she doesn't want anyone to know that.
"Instead of seeing me, everybody is going to see cancer," the 14-year-old says a few days before starting high school, as tufts of hair begin falling when she combs her hands through her hair. "Everybody is going to know me as the sick girl. And I am so much more than that."
"Hey, they'll figure it out, OK?" Mendoza's best friend, Katie Cooper, responds sympathetically, and then teases, "You'll do something crazy and really dumb and they'll all get to see exactly who you are."
