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.

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Photo taken by Paula Swift of Paula Swift Photography

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"Without hope, there is no hope." ~ Julianna Banana

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

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:24 PM EDT

Hunter had her 1 year off-treatment checkup today and all her counts were beautiful! She got spoiled at clinic because she told everyone she saw that it was her birthday.

She picked crepes with Nutella and whipped cream for dinner - I'm a pushover and went with it. So they had dessert for dinner and then birthday cake for dessert tonight. Life is good. :)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:03 AM CDT

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Links:

http://www.jimmyfund.org   The Jimmy Fund
http://www.marrow.org   The U.S. Bone Marrow Registry
http://www.dfci.org   Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

E-mail Author: dugan2b@yahoo.com

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