Lauren’s Story

Site created on July 8, 2020

Welcome to our CaringBridge website for Lauren Cessna. We are using it to keep family and friends updated in one place. We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement. Thank you for visiting. 

On July 6, 2020 Lauren was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She is going through treatment at Northside hospital in Atlanta, GA. She has a huge team behind her and we are ready to help her fight this fight and WIN! 

Newest Update

Journal entry by Lauren Cessna

Latest updates:
I still go to clinic once weekly, usually on Thursdays. The main concerns lately have been low platelets/WBC/ANC/Hemoglobin/Hematocrit. I've been told that being on cellcept for awhile can cause this, so the medical team decided to lower my dose a little while back. We are hoping this will start helping soon. In the meantime, I still have to get blood transfusions and other supportive care to help boost those numbers. Also, I've still been having almost daily nausea (with weight loss and no appetite). I had another EGD (scope) done last week that showed I have mild gastritis but the biopsies were not positive for active GVHD. However, due to my GVHD-like symptoms I was restarted on oral solumedrol (steroid) which fortunately has really helped. Unfortunately, though, I am having all of those unwanted side effects - insomnia, irritability, high blood sugars, and moon face. Oh joy! :) 
On the bright side, I've had more energy than usual this week (maybe the steroids haha) and have been really active. I'm looking forward to enjoying the cooler weather coming soon! 
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