Exciting news...Adrienne is going to her senior ball with a friend of our family, Kevin. This week, she decided she would ask him and he called last night to say he would be delighted to take her. We went shopping for a dress yesterday in San Francisco without much luck. For the most part, the dresses that Adrienne liked were too big (that happens when you wear a size 0 or 2). We'll try again this weekend. We are all very excited for her.
After several uneventful chemos, the hives and itching were back yesterday. We think it might be a result of three weeks between treatments, which we rescheduled due to AP exams. Sometimes side effects go away as your body gets more used to a treatment. The three weeks probably provided some time for her to build up some immunity.
Adrienne will be getting chemo regularly every other week, on schedule, until the end of July. We don't want any more postponements to make sure she can go to college. That means she'll get chemo the Monday before her finals. I've asked her school to give her whatever accommodations they can and am waiting to hear back.
Besides the hives and quite a bit of nausea the first two days, Adrienne actually feels better than usual at this point. She is quite tired but she looks great.
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Adrienne was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease in 1996 at age 9. She had multiple relapses, two bone marrow transplants, and a range of chemos and radiation therapies, and passed away on October 1, 2009. We are heartbroken.
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About Adrienne
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- Adrienne was very much like others with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, the most common cancer in teens and young adults. What was unusual is that she had it for more than half her life and ultimately, it took her life. Hodgkin's is curable for about 80% people, but Adrienne was one of the 20% for whom a cure was elusive. She considered herself lucky since treatments had been there for her with each relapse but she ran out of treatment options and her body just couldn’t take any more. As she said, "Though I’ve now had cancer for most of my life, I no longer plan my life around it; instead, I try to plan cancer around my life." We hope you can take inspiration from her and how she lived her life.
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