Hi everyone - it’s been a while… we’re resharing Dannie’s GoFundMe because of so many of you sharing interest in helping her in this next step of her journey.

January 29, 2026:

Dannie’s post:

Yesterday officially kicked off the start of my transplant journey.

I had labs drawn and got the green light to start injections to mobilize my stem cells. I’ve had this medication before, but this is a higher dose — overall I usually do well, but it does give bone pain, and likely may feel that more with the bigger dose. I keep reminding myself: pain means it’s working.

I’ll be doing these injections for 4 days. Tomorrow I’ll also have a tunneled line placed so my stem cells can be collected and later given back to me (they can’t use my port for this). The good news is it should be removed before I’m discharged from the hospital.

Monday starts apheresis — similar to dialysis — which is the process of collecting my stem cells. I’m scheduled Monday through Friday, but they may be able to collect enough that I’m only needed here a couple days. Praise God they can collect this way and I don’t need bone marrow aspirations.

The following week chemotherapy begins, and once that starts I’ll be staying in St. Louis full-time instead of traveling back and forth. I’ll do my best to keep sharing updates so everyone knows how I’m doing and where I’m at in the process. Many have asked, and with this chemo, I will likely loose my hair again. Dean seems the most bummed as he’s quickly fallen in love with my “Curlies.”

Thank you all for the prayers, love, and support — it truly means everything.

December 18, 2025

Dannie’s Post: I’ve officially completed two rounds of my more “salvage” chemotherapy. Before the stem cell transplant process can begin, this phase is necessary — it’s a different chemotherapy regimen than before designed to knock the cancer back again.

Thankfully, this round has been much easier on my body than last year’s treatment, and we’re moving right along. Im even more elated, today I found out that my body is responding to treatment and I am in complete remission — praise God!!! I have two more infusions, and then this chemo is planned to be done January 2nd.

After that, I’ll have a month off to allow my body to recover. Then we’ll move into the stem cell process to really knock it back for good! My new “birthday” is slated to be February 18th. God willing, this entire process will be behind us in April.

Special thanks to my large basis of support system helping me through this. And a special shout out to @corybonacorsi who really showed he meant it when he vowed to be there “in sickness and in health.” Thank you all for your prayers, love, and support

October 30, 2025

Dannie’s Post: A few of you have reached out, so I feel like it’s time to share… it’s the post I didn’t want to share the first time — let alone a second — but here we go!

Part of cancer survivorship is ongoing surveillance. Every few months, I have scans to check for growth. Unfortunately, this time, my scans showed growth and increased activity. And very quickly, a biopsy was scheduled confirmed that my Nodular Sclerosis Hodgkin Lymphoma has returned. The good news — there IS good news — is that even the second-line treatments are incredibly well-researched and effective! Thank God for that! Other good news, is I feel GOOD and this monitoring caught it early.

Next steps are essentially four months of outpatient chemotherapy, followed by preparation for a self-donated stem cell transplant down at Siteman/Barnes in St Louis.

This isn’t the road I hoped to walk again, but I’m ready to do what needs to be done, and help to use it to push me forward — surrounded by an incredible village — my care team, family, friends, coworkers— and the lessons learned from last time

Thursday, August 8th — the day my sister found out she has Classic Hodgkins Lymphoma, in her 20s, and just shy of 34 weeks pregnant with baby #2. Dannie’s a nurse, but now it’s time for her to be the patient.

Dannie’s entire body has been itchy since February — labs came back normal, so just suspected it was from the pregnancy (who knew that itchiness was a sign of Hodgkins). Fast forward to about two weeks ago, Dannie noticed swollen lymph nodes on her neck. The next week consisted of an ultrasound resulting in “concerning for lymphoma,” followed by an ultrasound guided biopsy with the final diagnosis of Hodgkins. We won’t know what stage it is until she can safely get a full body scan.

Next week, Dannie meets with an oncologist and will come up with a game plan. What we do know is that baby Avery will likely be welcomed earlier into the world than anticipated and Dannie will start chemo shortly after. A maternity leave was expected, planned, but what wasn’t planned, was having to undergo treatment, postpartum, while caring for 2, 2 and under.

We would like to extend the utmost gratitude to family, friends, and to the community for reading her story, sharing kind words, prayers, and your consideration in donating to help with the accrued costs as Dannie undergoes chemotherapy —whether that be medical bills, unexpected hospital visits, childcare, or household expenses.

Here’s to kicking Cancers you know what.