Adrienne had one exam this week and she has two more next week. I'm flying to California on Friday to help pack her up and drive her back here to Las Vegas. She's putting most of her stuff into storage and just bringing what she needs for New York so the packing shouldn't be too bad.
The plan for the summer and fall is becoming clearer. We'll fly to New York on May 18 and move Adrienne into the dorms at NYU on May 20. She sees the doctor on May 21 and starts her internship on May 22. She'll stay in NY until August 5 and then will come to visit us here in Las Vegas as well as her dad in Southern California. She has to be back in NY on August 27 for orientation and classes begin just after Labor Day. We're planning to fly out for Thanksgiving. We were there the same time of year in 2002 for Adrienne's wish with the Make a Wish Foundation and it was really, really cold, but a lot of fun. I think we'll skip the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this time.
Adrienne has a CT next Tuesday. It feels like they come faster and faster. She's now on a 6-week schedule for CTs, with PETs every second or third time. These continual scans are mentally taxing but we need watch her closely to make sure her disease doesn't get out of control.
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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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