Hunter's Journey of Hope Or Bad Hair is Better than NO Hair! Bald is Beautiful!
Welcome to Hunter's CaringBridge site.
Hunter was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) on December 20, 2003, at the age of 18 months. She underwent 2 years and 28 days of chemotherapy, finished treatment on January 17, 2006, and enjoyed 2 months of life off-treatment. We were devastated to learn on March 20, 2006, that she had relapsed in her spinal fluid.
She began chemo again on March 21, 2006 and achieved a second remission on April 18, 2006. And now she is enduring another two years of much harsher chemo as well as cranial radiation, to make sure that she stays in remission for good this time.
She finished her 2nd round of chemo on June 24, 2008 - a day after turning 6. We are loving life off-chemo right now. :)
Please feel free to sign the guestbook... we LOVE seeing your messages! It's always nice to know there's someone out there thinking of her. I will be printing all the messages out to include in her Survivor's Scrapbook.
Check out Hunter in the new Dana-Farber Fundraising Video! (That's her in the first shot, with the green 'do-rag on. She was 21 months old.)
Someone who loves bacon almost as much as Hunter:
Journal
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:33 AM CDT
It's been a long road of mostly good health and life without cancer around here, hard to believe it's been nearly a year since I last updated. Not a day goes by that I'm not thankful.
Unfortunately we are starting to see some fallout from the cranial radiation she got in 2007. A few weeks ago we went for her annual eye exam and got the news that she's got cataracts in both eyes. The one on the left is not affecting her vision, but the one on the right is.
Took her to see the eye surgeon at Children's last week and she recommended surgery to remove the cataract, and an implant to correct her vision. When I saw the size and the opacity of the cataract on the doctor's computer monitor I was FLOORED that Hunter never complained about her vision. Never, not once. And for who knows how long, her vision out of that eye has probably felt like trying to see with a pair of glasses covered in big smudgy fingerprints.
She is going in for the surgery tomorrow afternoon. It's done on an outpatient basis and we're hopeful that recovery will be uneventful. She's OK with all of this, I think she's grateful that we can fix the problem. She's more annoyed about not being able to go horseback riding for a couple of weeks than anything.
Speaking of which:
She's doing really well with that whole riding thing. :)
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