Ryon is a very energetic, strong willed 2 year old. She loves anything to do with Minnie Mouse, ponies, and of course “ponycorns” (unicorns).
On May 3, 2017 Ryon went into surgery to repair a hernia, when the surgeon came out he broke the news to us that she didn’t have a hernia but instead it was a tumor. He removed the tumor during surgery and two days later Ryon was admitted again to undergo a PET/CT Scan. On May 9th we finally had an appointment to see an oncologist. We had great hopes for this appointment. We hoped to hear that they had removed all the cancer and she was good to go.
Unfortunately that wasn’t what we heard. We were told that they weren’t exactly sure what type of cancer she had (they gave us two possibilities) but both would require a very hard chemo regimen. She was sent 2 days later to have surgery to get a port. Then on May 15, 2017 she received her first round of chemo. Just after her getting home from her first round of chemo we got the news that Ryon had Soft Tissue Ewing’s Sarcoma.
Ryon handles chemo like a champion. Most of the time you wouldn’t know that she had cancer if it wasn’t for her sweet little bald head. She’s always running up and down the hospital hallways begging a nurse to walk or play with her. She’s always getting into as much trouble as a normal two year old would.
On August 24th Ryon had a second surgery to clear the margins of her tumor. After about 2 hours in surgery, her surgeon came out and gave us the news that all the cancer was removed. She is now NED and only has two more rounds of chemo left to go. We will still have a long hard road ahead of us learning to deal with life after cancer but our baby girl has kicked cancers booty!
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