Nicole's Fight Against Cancer
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To All of Nicole’s friends, our friends, family and all other caring people,
Our amazing, loving, young 27 year old daughter, Nicole, was diagnosed with a blood cancer called MDS with excessive blasts on Tuesday October 2nd, 2018.
MDS is an aggressive Pre-Leukemia and very rare for someone of her age. We are so thankful that she pushed and pushed to be tested and tested for just about everything.
For the past few months, she has said that she just knew that something was wrong. This was never expected.
Because of the level of excess blasts and how fast it could turn into AML an aggressive Leukemia (update: it did turn into AML before she checked into hospital Nov 1) , the doctors want to start Chemotherapy as soon as possible.
As of now, she will be in the hospital for 4-6 weeks straight for the first round of chemotherapy, while a Bone Marrow Donor is searched for.
Then, hopefully when a successful match is found, she will be back in the hospital for another 4-6 weeks for the bone marrow transplant.
During this time, she will go through multiple blood transfusions, platelet transfusions and bone marrow biopsies. It is a very difficult process, as her Immune System has to basically be wiped out to get rid of the existing bone marrow and then be replaced with the new marrow.
That will be another process in itself, as the body starts its own fight to accept the transplant.
She has always been the one to do whatever is needed. You don't even have to ask.
She will do anything to helps others.
She says she is ready for this fight.
Nicole knows that she is going to lose her hair and a lot of weight during transplant.
This will be a long road to recovery, as we start this process next week, but she is very strong and staying in high hopes, as she makes it through this.
Right Now, Nicole needs your help, your support and love from all!
You will updated as she knows more, so that you can be with her and follow her through this all.
**Please check the update links as we have posted a lot of updates over the last 2 months.
Most importantly, we are done with the first in patient round that ended up being 6 full weeks because Nicole had to do a second round of chemotherapy, as the first round did not work. Unfortunately, every issue that could have happened pretty much did from the second round of chemo. She had fevers, staph running through her blood, heart failure (it is thankfully back to a normal range now), her lungs filled with fluid and she could hardly breathe, and a small brain bleed that caused awful headaches for weeks. The worst is hopefully behind us and she is now at home resting before heading back in on January 7th for more chemotherapy and her transplant. Thank you all for your support thus far!
Our amazing, loving, young 27 year old daughter, Nicole, was diagnosed with a blood cancer called MDS with excessive blasts on Tuesday October 2nd, 2018.
MDS is an aggressive Pre-Leukemia and very rare for someone of her age. We are so thankful that she pushed and pushed to be tested and tested for just about everything.
For the past few months, she has said that she just knew that something was wrong. This was never expected.
Because of the level of excess blasts and how fast it could turn into AML an aggressive Leukemia (update: it did turn into AML before she checked into hospital Nov 1) , the doctors want to start Chemotherapy as soon as possible.
As of now, she will be in the hospital for 4-6 weeks straight for the first round of chemotherapy, while a Bone Marrow Donor is searched for.
Then, hopefully when a successful match is found, she will be back in the hospital for another 4-6 weeks for the bone marrow transplant.
During this time, she will go through multiple blood transfusions, platelet transfusions and bone marrow biopsies. It is a very difficult process, as her Immune System has to basically be wiped out to get rid of the existing bone marrow and then be replaced with the new marrow.
That will be another process in itself, as the body starts its own fight to accept the transplant.
She has always been the one to do whatever is needed. You don't even have to ask.
She will do anything to helps others.
She says she is ready for this fight.
Nicole knows that she is going to lose her hair and a lot of weight during transplant.
This will be a long road to recovery, as we start this process next week, but she is very strong and staying in high hopes, as she makes it through this.
Right Now, Nicole needs your help, your support and love from all!
You will updated as she knows more, so that you can be with her and follow her through this all.
**Please check the update links as we have posted a lot of updates over the last 2 months.
Most importantly, we are done with the first in patient round that ended up being 6 full weeks because Nicole had to do a second round of chemotherapy, as the first round did not work. Unfortunately, every issue that could have happened pretty much did from the second round of chemo. She had fevers, staph running through her blood, heart failure (it is thankfully back to a normal range now), her lungs filled with fluid and she could hardly breathe, and a small brain bleed that caused awful headaches for weeks. The worst is hopefully behind us and she is now at home resting before heading back in on January 7th for more chemotherapy and her transplant. Thank you all for your support thus far!
Organizer
Lisa Evans
Organizer
Huntington Beach, CA
