Savannah started having head/neck pain in December 2016/January 2017. Then she started vomiting around February. It lead up to vomiting daily every morning. In March, she would vomit multiple times a day, everyday. We saw an endo doctor who sent us for our first CT scan. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor on 4/25/2019. Her cancer diagnosis came one week later.
She has had 7 weeks of radiation treatments. Savannah has very thick, curly hair. They shaved the whole back of her head, She lost the hair above her ears from the treatments. She wasn’t eating and slept a lot. She needed Zofran everyday for nausea.
A childhood cancer diagnosis has caused fear…a daily fear . During treatment your body clicks into auto pilot. You just do what the doctors recommend, you pick the best plan for your child and they make it happen. Once it’s over and the reality sets in of going back to school, going back to work and trying to fit back into a society that kept going on without you it’s hard. You feel like you don’t belong. The fear though, the fear that any day this beast could come back and take her precious life, it is so intense and so real. We try to live everyday to its fullest. I appreciate my daughter even on her bad days. We all live on borrowed time.
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