Posted by Mississippi Moon
on 7/3/2007, 3:59 pm
67.72.98.107
Well my friends, I just want to thank you for all your support and kind words....as most of you know my 6 yr old daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor this past Feb....Dr removed as much as they could but it kept growing back....she had 33 treatments of conformal radiation....and still there were signs left of the malignant ependymoma trying to grow back.....they wanted to do chemo I refused....they wanted to operate once more at St Judes, which could leave her with as much as a 60% deficit in certain areas like her speach and ability to walk, etc and I refused....needless to say I wasn't very popular with the dr's and nurses lol of course I researched all of this of course......anyway now as she is home recovering...still smart as a whip, swimming like a fish....and on no medication.......What I'm trying to get to is I have just talked to 2 different Dr.'s and they have viewed her MRI from last week and my Kayla is completely CURED!!!! There are NO signs left of any residual tumor AT ALL and there are no chances of recurrance!! She is completely healed....and I am just ecstatic 
Furthermore they are opening a Childrens Brain Tumor Clinic in honor of Kayla since brain tumors are so very different from any other kind of cancers.....There currently have 10 enrolled from this state and that includes people from as far back as 20 yrs ago....they will have a total rehab and individual treatment programs specially designed for these children....I wanted to share this with you all as I have had tons of emails and cards from y'all over this trying period and I thank you from the bottom of my heart!! Thanks again all Shawna aka Mississippi Moon 
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