Zayda’s Story

Site created on November 18, 2019

11/03/2015 our Princess Zayda was born my first love and my frist born sadly on 09/28/2019 at 3 years old she was diagnosed with a rare tumor in her bran called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma DIPG it  is a tumour located in  the brain stem. DIPG has zero survival rate its  the most aggressive and deadly of all childhood cancers. They are described as 'terminal on diagnosis', which means there is no cure, no effective treatment and no hope of survival. But as long as  she is here on earth we will fight for her life we do not want to give up on her.

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October 13, 2019

Journal entry by Mitra Garcia —

Started Trail Drug fimepinostat pnoc016 we had to show her how to swallow pills in a day and she did great she took the trail drug for 3 days before her biopsy on October 16, 2019 to see if the drug was going to her brain. After her radiation she will start on the drug again.
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