Brielle has an amazing smile and is a beautiful girl. She loves her siblings so much!
We were at home on the night of 1/18/18 and she fell down, forward on the ground, within minutes of that she stared losing consciousness. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital. They released her that night believing she just had a concussion form the fall. She did not seem fine to us and all night cried and needed to be held. We brought her back to hospital the following morning. It was then they discovered she had a tumor on her liver and it was bleeding. She was given blood transfusions and rushed to another hospital for surgery to stop the source of bleeding, the following morning her blood work came back which indicated the tumor was Hepatoblastoma cancer.
She went through 6 rounds of chemo. She had the surgery to stop the ruptured tumor from bleeding. Two days after that she had a surgery to place a port and attempted surgery to resect tumor which was unsuccessful because the tumor was too close to portal artery. She then had 3 of her 6 rounds of chemo. Then she had surgery to remove the tumor and her gall bladder. She then finished up 3 more rounds of clean up chemo.
The struggles we face as a family is adjusting back to life after this, it’s not like you just step back in your old life. It’s different now, our world has been shaken. Our fighter is a twin and has an older brother. We spent a lot of time separated as a family. A lot of our time was focused on our fighter which impacted our other children’s needs. We have the worry of relapse hanging over us. During her chemo we didn’t spend much time outside of the house due to her being immune compromised so we didn’t have a lot of family time enjoying life.
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