Earlier this year, Boothbay’s Chanel Stoddard, 22, was two years cancer-free and starting the job she’d been wanting for years, working in the Boothbay Region YMCA’s day care.

In July, she noticed a lump on her neck. Within weeks, tests confirmed the Hodgkin’s lymphoma was back, with tumors in the 2012 Boothbay Region High School graduate’s neck lymph nodes and right lung, and on her stomach and left kidney.

“Disappointing,” Stoddard recalled Sunday about the news. She and her family had prepared themselves for it so it wouldn’t be as bad to hear, she said.

“But it’s still bad.”

Since then it’s been back to the nausea, hair loss, muscle pain and mouth sores, all from the chemotherapy treatment she’s begun at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Treatment is more intense this time, with chemotherapy drugs for five days of each six-day stay along with saline to keep the drugs from damaging her kidneys and bladder. The frequent urination allows Stoddard little rest, her mother Melanie Green said.

Home time is not a complete break for Stoddard. Besides the discomfort from the treatment’s side effects, there is anti-clotting medicine to take via tubes. A nurse visits to draw blood and help the Greens maintain the tubing. The family moved from Boothbay Harbor to Boothbay in December 2015.

Stoddard ordered a calzone at Sarah’s Cafe in Wiscasset Sunday and took half home. More than a week out of the hospital after her first round of chemo, she was just getting her appetite back. Her next round of treatment, expected to take it away again, was scheduled to start Thursday, Sept. 1.

Green and husband Richard Green, Stoddard’s stepfather, both described the diagnosis as more shocking this time. Melanie Green explained, the first time around Stoddard had been sick and not feeling like herself for several months before the illness was identified. “So in a way it was a little bit of a relief — Okay. Now we have our answer, let’s fix it. This time around, it was the opposite. She’d been happy and healthy. So it’s like a slap in the face for it to come back.”

“You think you’re done with it, and then it happens all over again,” her husband, the son of Anita Green of Wiscasset, added.

But the family has several things working in tandem with the aggressive treatment to help Stoddard in this second fight. One is determination.

“(Goal) number one is to beat cancer’s butt,” her mother said. “And number two is to get back to her dream job.”

“I will,” Stoddard said.

The family said the Y has been very supportive and so has the rest of the community. Melanie Green’s best friend Amy Williams, interviewed separately, personally donated 200 purple bracelets that read “Chanel Strong” and “Together we WIN.” The response has been so big, she’s ordered another 300.

“We have an amazing community,” Williams said.

She manages Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ cafe where Stoddard had still been working one day a week, in addition to the Y job, when she had to stop working both places to focus on her treatment.

The bracelets bring in donations for “Chanel’s Fund” at The First, Williams said. Melanie Green said the fund will help pay transportation to treatment in Portland and Boston. It’s the same account people gave to during her daughter’s first cancer battle, she said. People can leave donations at the Boothbay Harbor, Wiscasset or Damariscotta branches.

CMBG in Boothbay and St. Andrews Urgent Care Center, Coastal Maine Popcorn Co. and Hawke Motors in Boothbay Harbor have the bracelets and donation jars. Or call Williams at 215-3717.

Williams, of Boothbay, said the bracelet idea stemmed from her trying to think of a way to show Stoddard she has the community’s support. “I thought if she sees people wearing the bracelets, it would help her to realize she’s not alone.”

Stoddard smiled when asked about the bracelets’ popularity. “It’s crazy. It’s really good.” She said she would like to give a huge, huge thank you to everyone for their support.

“For their continued support,” her mother added. Some people have donated more than once, she said.

Stephanie Hawke, owner of Hawke Motors where Williams’ father Alan Williams works, is arranging a Sept. 24 car wash and lobster roll event, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the business. The rain date is Sept. 25. Hawke said the fundraiser will benefit Stoddard’s transportation costs for the Boston trips.

Stoddard’s family said that later into her chemotherapy, when her stem cells are at their fighting peak, plans call for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston to harvest some that will be put back in during a separate, longer stay.

Williams and Hawke are being a huge help on fundraising, Green said. “We’re so thankful for their support.”

“I’m happy they’re there to help,” Stoddard said.

Hawke is inviting lobster fishermen to sign up to donate lobsters for the rolls. And volunteers are welcome to help with the car wash.

She’s hoping for a phenomenal turnout and money-raising to help Stoddard in her fight. “She needs to focus on healing, not gas money ... Come get your car cleaned, have a great, big lobster roll and help a great cause,” she said in encouraging attendance.

Visitors as well as area residents have been aiding the fund, Stoddard’s grandmother, Belinda Campbell of Boothbay Harbor, said. A New Jersey man put a $100 check in the donation jar at Hawke Motors, she said. “I didn’t even know him. But there are still good people out there.”

Campbell said she looks at the cancer’s return this way: “You have to learn to deal with it. Many nights you cry, but now we’re moving forward, and we’re going to beat it again.”

In addition to all the people in her corner, Stoddard still has her Yorkshire terrier, Brady-Duncaan, now about 11, sticking close and helping see her through like last time, Stoddard said. Exchanging smiles with her mother, she added: “And he still goes by two a’s in Duncaan.”