TEAM TRINITY BEAT CANCER FUND

Trinity has been battling a stage 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma brain tumor since she was 1 ½ years old. She was diagnosed January 2012 .This little girl has been through so much in her short life. Countless rounds of chemotherapy and even radiation. Trinity has had many ups and down through out her journey but she continue to fight with a smile on her face. Trinity had reached her limit on chemotherapy and has been off chemotherapy since the end of summer 2014. Her tumor had been stable since and seem to show improvement. Since then we have been dealing with side effects from treatment and tumor but recently our world had change very drastically. Trinity had been experiencing headaches and neck pain. She was showing signs of tightness on her left side and had a droopy lip on the left side. We took her to our local emergency room were they consulted with u of m. U of M had moved her Mri up sooner then the beginning of November. They sent her home with a different pain medication which was helping but then that stop working as well. We were extremely worried. Trinity had a eye appointment with her eye doctor and everything was going good but at the end the doctor notice edema in the back of her eyes and wanted her MRI moved up asap. On October 6th 2017 was her MRI day and that is the day that our life had change drastically. We found out that trinity had a second tumor in a different location that had grown drastically. It was not even on the MRI in May 2017 but had grown drastically since then. Her first tumor was still stable and actually looked better then her May MRI this was so hard to take in. She was admitted that evening and put on steroids instantly which helped with the swelling and pain. On October 7th she had a biopsy to take a sample of the tumor and we were later released a week later. We went back for the result on October 16 and found out that the new tumor is a grade 4 Glioblastoma. It is consider inoperable because of the location it is at. It is possible that if removed she could lose motor functions. We are so scared for her and trying to be as strong as we possibly can for her, but we know how aggressive this tumor can be. We discuss her options with her onconologist and she felt her best options at this point is to start radiation therapy which will be a 6 week treatment in Ann Arbor. This was a complicated decision to make because we were informed when we met with the radiation doctor that on the initial MRI the tumor area that would have to be attacked looked like it was pushing on the brain stem or was moving into the brain stem. She said that she would have to target that area as well which trinity could have some weakness & numbness on the left side. We live almost 2 hours away so there be a lot of traveling back and forth. Mom & Trinity will be staying most of the stay in Ann Arbor at a hotel and Dad will be traveling back and forth. Any donations even if it’s a dollar will help them continue to help Trinity. They have a long road ahead of them any help with the financial burdens that come with battling cancer would be truly appreciated. If you can’t donate please share this with all your family & friends so that we can get Trinity Story out there and bring awareness to Anaplastic Astrocytoma and Glioblastoma #Team Trinity