RE: Re: RE: daughter unit

David....

Give Michelle a hug from me.... so sorry to hear that she has been put
thru this. I had a similar problem in spring, but choose to work it out
rather than the surgery. Of course, underlining situations made that
option available to me. That is no picnic!

Thanks for the update and know she and your entire family are in my
thoughts and prayers.

Donna


> 
> The daughter unit is home and doing much better.  I will tell you all
this
> because it's such a bizarre series of maladies that it defies reason
but
> one
> after another it has taken a toll on her usual cheerful self.
> 
> One day before she was finishing her junior year of high school on the
> last
> finals day she was diagnosed with lymphoma.  This wasn't your typical
> lymphoma.  It was caused by her anti rejection medications suppressing
her
> immune system acting with a latent mono virus which we didn't know she
had
> causing tumors to grow.  I think you knew this part so far.  Well she
> received low doses of chemo treatments which was very effective in
> reducing
> the tumors.  However, on the day she was supposed to visit her
> grandparents
> for a week in July she experienced excruciating pain in her abdomen
where
> the larger of the two tumors were.  We rushed her to the hospital via
> helicopter.  The tumor, when it shrank, perforated her bowels and gave
her
> a
> raging infection.  She had emergency surgery and they removed 8" of
her
> intestines.  She came home in early August for one week.  Then when
she
> was
> supposed to go to Seattle to visit her aunt for a week before school
> started
> again she had the same pain again.  Either another area was perforated
or
> they didn't get it all the first time.  They had to operate again in
the
> same place and remove another 10" of intestines.  This time the
infection
> was even worse with a fungal infection added to the bacterial
infection.
> When you don't have an immune system these things can kill you very
> quickly
> and she was very, very sick.
> 
> Anyway that's how my daughter spent her summer vacation.  She seems to
be
> having a better attitude now that she's home.  Unfortunately one of
the
> doctors is very frank and explained to us that with lung transplant
> patients
> body parts can suddenly just stop functioning and that the simplest
> medical
> problems can become instantly fatal particularly in the gut region.
> 
> My selling season is over now so hopefully I'll be able to more a part
of
> the group for a while.  You're now updated on her condition.
Hopefully
> she'll have some time of good health and she can have a productive
senior
> year.
> 
> DF

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