Adrienne's counts came back up today, which is a great relief, since we want to make sure she stays on schedule. Overall, she's feeling much better. She made the decision to drop one class after CMC agreed, and she can still graduate on time in 2009.
Trying to do clinical trials while being in school without much support system is proving to be more difficult than expected, so Adrienne wants to come back to CMC for the spring semester and spend the summer with us in Las Vegas. City of Hope will be happy to have her back in December and, if the trial works, she can continue it there. If the trial doesn't work, she'll go on conventional chemo for awhile and I'll probably go to Claremont every other week to take her. In the meantime, she'll have a month here over the holidays, which will be a nice rest for her. I think she feels relieved to have made all of these decisions, although she loves the doctors and nurses at Columbia and enjoys the college.
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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.
2 comments:
Hi Allison and Adrienne...glad to see your counts have come up Adrienne...I hope it helps you to feel better. I'm sure the school/class decisions were tough to make...being closer to home next semester will have made that decision worth it. You are such a warrior...I am in awe of all that you accomplish and do while undergoing yet more treatment. Big (((HUGS))) to you and mom too.
Susan (laulausmamma)
Crawling out of lurkerdom to catch up with you . . . thanks for posting in our guestbook. What a big couple of months for you, but it sounds like as usual you have it all done up and decided. Best to you all.
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