Kim asked me to write a short history about our youngest so you would know about her. February 2001, we found out that she had a golf ball sized medulloblastoma brain tumor, which is at the base of the brain stem; she was about 2 years old. (she is now 8 years old) We went to Iowa City with her and they removed as much of it as they could (which was most of it.) After that we spent most of the time up there. Angie underwent "regular" chemo; that didn't do as much as they wanted so we went through a stem-cell transplant of her own cells. After that she did radiation and had her last treatment Dec. 31st, 2001 and we came home that day. Since then we have been in remission. We still go up for yearly MRI's to be sure nothing is starting again. She also has visits with the Endocrine dept as she has to take synthroid pills as the radiation did a number on her thyroid. She also has growth hormone shots 6 days a week which I have learned how to do. They said she will probably be on them until she is around 13 as that is when most kids stop growing.
I stayed at the Ronald McDonald House there, and Mike (my husband) stayed working to keep things going, coming up when he could. Kristen, our oldest for the last part of that year stayed with my mom & dad and went to school at New London. (Thank you again Mom & Dad!) She transferred back to the school here and started back in January.
That is a condensed history of that part of our life. We are thankful every day that it all worked out like it did.
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