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Hey everyone,
I'm Jessica. Many of you have met me at family events over the years. You probably already know why you’re here and what's happening with Adrianna. If you need a reminder or if you're feeling unsure, I'll do my best to explain while trying to hold back the tears.
The woman who is everything to everyone she knows -the woman who has likely taken care of your children, our stylist, our effervescent bundle of laughter with curly hair who speaks fluent quotes from 'The Office' and loves every single dog - Adrianna Spain, needs our support. She needs our financial, emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental support. She won't ask for it, so I am asking for it on her behalf.
SHE IS HAVING SURGERY ON JULY 10TH, 2024 TO HAVE A VERY LARGE MASS REMOVED FROM THE THORACIC CAVITY IN HER CHEST.
Adrianna's LinkTree is where you find every list and social media update in one spot.
Below is a video *graphic* of a similar surgery that Adrianna will have on July 10th, 2024, if curiosity also kills your metaphorical cat.
What is going on, in summary?
- Adrianna has a baseball-softball-sized mass in her chest. is a posterior mediastinal mass that is adhered to her bronchial tubes, right lung, pericardial sack (the sack that surrounds the heart), thoracic spine, esophagus, and chest wall.
- The sheer size and location of this cyst make it extremely dangerous to keep in her chest as it is already crushing her right bronchial tube and has displaced and deviated her esophagus to the side.
- The mass is also occupying space her lung needs to expand, space her heart needs to pump blood through major vessels like the aorta, and space her stomach needs to expand.
- The physicians at the Stephenson Cancer Center have said, so far, the material they have biopsied is a cyst. But they cannot be sure of the pathology until they remove it, in its entirety.
- Adrianna has a VATS (video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery) robotic surgery scheduled for July 10th, 2024 at OU Medical Center to attempt to remove the entire mass.
- This surgery is dangerous, invasive, and comes with a high risk of complications and injuries.
- Her recovery time is a month or longer.
- Her profession as a stylist doesn't leave her the option of "PTO" or "Sick Days." She can't work remotely from home during her recovery.
- She will need help paying her bills for, at least, a couple of months.
- Financial help is only one area that Adrianna needs help during this chapter of her life.
The bottom line: is this woman has probably moved heaven and earth to help you or your family in some way, and it is time for this community to pour back into my best friend. She is a best friend, a daughter, a granddaughter, a mother, a neighbor, a host, a dog momma, a stylist, and a beautiful smiling face with encouraging words, empathy that could fill the ocean, and an impeccable sense of humor. If you have ever wondered how you can "pay her back" for all she has done for you?? This is it. Show up for her and her babies like she shows up for all of us, all of the time.
Links and references to Adrianna's Facebook page with the most information about her evolving health situation.
Here is Adrianna's Facebook post from May, discussing her "mass" origin story:
"On April 5th, I was involved in a hit-and-run accident on Lake Hefner Parkway. I’m unsure of what happened so when an ambulance was called, I was examined for injuries, including internal bleeding. My stomach was tender so the decision was made to send me to OU Medical for level 1 trauma so I could have imaging done.
The results of the CT scan revealed a mass in my chest on my lung about the size of a baseball. 7.2 cm. You birth a baby at 10 cm or if you have a Shells in your life, you do it at 9 cm and she makes a way. Story for another day.
So this mass. I'm basically Iron Man now. It is between my spine and where my lung breathing tubes split to go into each lung. It touches my esophagus(food tube) compresses my brachial tube (airway that leads to each lung) and my thoracic spine and my heart. It’s just not amazing.
I had an MRI for that last Wednesday and I will have a biopsy tomorrow to determine if this is something really bad or not. I won’t know a whole lot until these things are done and reviewed. I’m seeing a lung doctor at the Stephenson Cancer Center through OU.
I’m not really processing at all which is why I haven’t said a lot. That wreck was horrible. Totaled our car. Damaged 8 cable poles. It’s… wild. But because of this, I had a huge discovery.
I wasn’t going to post. I am extremely tired and I just really didn’t want to talk about this a whole lot. However, a part of me is screaming to talk about this. I’m so conflicted about what’s happening to me.
If I haven’t directly reached out to you, please reserve your offense. I am hanging on by shreds here. Between the wreck and this news amongst the daily calling of my own personal life of being a mother and a spouse, a business owner, etc. — know that my intentions are purely for good.
I would love to ask for your prayers. We could use the support, truly. I hate being so vulnerable but gosh this is really heavy.
I haven’t been able to work like I normally do because of the car wreck and the injuries relating to that, plus the various doctor appointments and so on. Driving on the interstate is horrible for me and it takes me forever to get somewhere.
If you reach out and I don’t get back to you for days, know that I will. Or just come by. My dogs will bark and jump like lunatics but I love having company and so do my kids.
My biopsy is tomorrow at 12:30 pm. I’m not sure how to end this other than saying thank you for riding this journey and holding space for me and mine as you all do so often. There hasn’t been one time I’ve asked for prayers that I didn’t feel a shift in my world, and I truly think so highly of that safety.
Love you all. ♥️"
Her biopsy updates from May 20th:
I WILL DO MY VERY BEST TO UPDATE THIS PAGE AS NEW INFORMATION COMES IN.
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