Hello...my name is Dauna Ross Paquier.  I'm doing this for our daughter Laurann Paquier age 35.   As a mom this is so very hard to do....to support our baby girl who is going thru so very much at this time.  Actually it's almost three years....a devastating cancer diagnosis....Hodgkins Lymphoma.  She was diagnosed at stage 3 in Sept 2015.  She started chemo in Oct '15 with ABVD for several months at Lankenau Hospital where she was employed....remission!  Yes!  Sadly seven months later relapsed.  She was referred to University of Pennsylvania lymphoma specialists and has been there since.  She needed an auto stem cell transplant requiring a 3 week stay in hospital.   That stay required heavy chemo ICE.   Remission again....on to transplant.  Successful we thought....3 months later....relapsed again.  There was a spot in center of chest....now 30 rounds of proton therapy...it's a new targeted radiation....yes!   Gone!   Four months later back...this time in her liver....inside and outside.   Now she required liver biopsies that were extremely painful....but the good news is if you can call it good news is that it was still the same cancer.  OK...more heavy chemo....that resolved two spots.  Yes!  A spot remained...more chemo but now a lighter chemo she takes weekly to this day....every Monday!  That one spot has responded but not much.   She is continuing chemo weekly.   Laurann and her fiancé Jason just bought their first house three months before being diagnosed.   Jason....her dad George and I and her sister Stephanie and husband Marc have been there at the consultations and hospital stays and during chemo!   The Penn oncologists and radiologists together are devising a plan to move forward to another transplant....this time stem cells from a donor.  Laurann has met with the transplant doctor and she needs to be in complete remission before going forward with allo transplant.   Once in remission she will get heavy chemo in hospital and whole body radiation and them move on to transplant where she will be Penn a month if not longer.  We are all praying for no complications....it's called host vs graft disease where her body could virtually reject the donor's stem cells.  Now the good news is that her father and I have been tested....we are both a match to donate!  Thank You Jesus.  We will all see the transplant specialist in two weeks and two weeks later again with her oncologist who is a lymphoma specialist for updates.   We check on Laurann's progress with PET scans.....we look for uptake of a solution she has to drink.  Praise God the cancer is gone throughout her body except for this one spot now on her liver.  It's the only spot that lights up!  Yes!  She will not be able to work for at least one year after getting the transplant.   She has had to file for complete disability from Social Security.....that can take a year or longer to be approved.   She still has not been approved yet from the state for any benefits...that takes less time.   Laurann has been working thru all this chemo rarely missing any time....she's our warrior princess.  She is only permitted to work 10 hours a week.....no longer 40 hours.   At transplant...no work at all....it's too dangerous for her to be exposed to most people and most things.  She cannot even handle raw meat to cook once she' home and able.   Laurann has been applying for grants via various cancer support groups to help financially but they are all out of funds.....not enough donations coming in.   Without this transplant Laurann's prognosis and I'm so terrified to write this is five to seven years.  We are praying the new transplant will be totally successful.   This is so hard for a family to watch your beautiful full of life daughter go thru something so dramatic....it literally sucks the life out of all of us.   Please pray for Laurann.   If you can see it in your heart to help her....your generous donation will so greatly appreciated.  May God bless you.....her loving family.   Thank you.