Diagnosed with WilmsTumor at 9month

This was written by Paetton's Mommy Sabrina. Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Chance and Sabrina's daughter was scheduled for her regular nine month baby check-up. During the check up everything appeared to be fine; until Dr. Iqbal started pushing on her stomach to check and see if anything felt abnormal. Well in Paetton's case something did. Dr. Iqbal thought that Paetton had an infected spline. So he ordered an ultrasound to be done on her stomach so that we could be sure what it was. After the ultrasound Paetton and I went back up staris to the main lobby to wait on the results. After half an hour of waiting Dr. Iqbal came to speak to me. I was hoping he would tell me everything was fine and it was not a big deal; that was not the case. Instead Dr. Iqbal looked at me with an unasuring look on his face and asked me if my boyfriend Paetton's dad (Chance) could be here to speak to the both of us. Of course in a situation like this no one wants to hear something like that I knew it had to be serious. I tried to be calm. I got ahold of Chance, and Paetton and I went to pick him up for work. At one O'Clock we were rescheduled to see Dr. Iqbal and get some answers. At One we returned to Health Partners to find out what was going on. Dr. Iqbal sat us down and told us that on the ultrasound pictures Paetton's Kidneys were enlarged and he was not sure why but it could be dangerous if we ignored it. But told us that we needed to go home pack our bags for a few nights and head straight to the E.R. at The Childrens Hospital in Minneapolis.Arriving at the Childrens Hospital we were directed to the ER where they took blood and urine from Paetton to run tests. After being in the ER for about an hour they admitted Paetton to the hospital where the three of us stayed for the next four days. During this time they did three blood draws on Paetton took more urine, had an MRI done, a CT scan done, another ultrasound, and on top of everything she had an IV in her hand preventing her from doing anything and she had high blood preasure which is dangerous. After many tests, several nurses and a handful of doctors. And not to mention four days of waiting for answers. When the doctors came in they pulled Paettons MRI pictueres up on a screen and started explaining what was going on. They told us that Paetton had what was called Nephroblastomatosis and that her kidneys were three times the size that they should be; the size of an adults kidneys. Her kidneys had dark spots which appeared to be what they thought were Tumors; a Wilms Tumor. Wilms Tumors are known to be cancerous. They told us that she would need surgery so they could Biopsy Her kidneys and find out if what she had was cancerous or not. The surgery was scheduled for Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. They dicharged us for the weekend and to Return on Tuesday for the surgery.Tuesday, September 2, 2014 we arrived at 11:00 a.m. for Paetton to have labs done where they took more blood. At around One O'Clock Paetton was put in a prep room for surgery where Chance and I had to steralize her and get her ready for Surgery. While waiting for surgery they spoke to Chance and I what would happen and aansswered any questions we had before putting her under. Come 2:30 p.m. they took our daughter from us and as she screamed down the hallway I burst into tears. Hoping everything would be fine the next 2 hours seemed like forever. When surgery was done Chance and I took Paetton upstairs where she was once admitted for the next three days. The next three days were the hardest for us but most of all for our beautiful little girl. Everything was a chalenge holding her was the hardest she was in so much pain. On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 the doctors came up to Paetton's room and told us the results of her biopsy. The result sounded good at first; Paetton was cancer free. But the good news didn't last long. Paetton does not have cancer but her wilms tumor was at a very high risk of becoming cancerous and that she would need Chemo Theropy treatments. She will go through 22 weeks of Chemo theropy.After the doctors told us the bitter-sweet news they told us how everything would work. That Paetton would need surgery again to have a port put in her chest under the skin below the collar-bone; where the treatment medicine would be given to her. On Wednesday Paetton was watched by her grandma (Irene) while chance and I stayed in a hotel to get some sleep. Thanks to a wonderful nurse and the Ronald McDonald house for making the arrangements and paying for everything. That night Paetton had a fever, a fever that reached 103.4 degrees. With these high temperatures they had us stay Thursday night as well instead of releasing us to go home. On Thursday night Paetton had no fevers and they released us on Friday, Septmeber 5, 2014. Paetton is schelduled for surgery to get her Port put in Friday September 12, 2014 and will recieve her first treatment of Chemo. Where we will stay over night and come home on Saturday hopefully.

After the last two weeks I want to say Thank you to EVERYONE who has sent prayers to our little girl. Everyone who has sent cards and gifts. Thank
you to the Ronald McDonald House. Thank you to all our wonderful nurses. But most of all Thank you to our family to the people most important.

You have all made this Journey so much easier than we thought it could be!