At first Stephanie started to sleep more than usual and not been able to wake up easily as before to be ready for school. She was in Pre-k 4 at the time. A few days before her diagnosis she started to complain about headaches, being nauseous, abdominal pain and stopped eating but her PCP said that those symptoms may be something viral and gave her medicine for pain and her stomach. A few days after her symptoms were the same plus fever so I took Stephanie to the emergency room. We were told that she just had constipation and again she got medications to treat the symptoms.
A week later Stephanie started to have more severe headaches. She was waking up in the middle of the night crying and vomiting. We went back to her PCP when Stephanie started to fall while walking or just sitting, that was when her PCP told me to take her to ER. Dec 7th was the day our nightmare started. At first I was told she had a tumor but later on after after the tumor was removed they found out it was cancer, Medulloblastoma.
My daughter having cancer is the worse feeling I can have, not knowing what is going to happen tomorrow, not being able to plan ahead because all depends on her health. Living with the fear of not knowing if she is going to beat cancer or how much more time I still have with my daughter. My daughter is the the first and only kid in my family that has had cancer. My life stopped suddenly. I had to stop working and going to school for my degree. My other children are having a really hard time facing the reality of their sister having cancer. It has affected all of us.
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