Gianni is our pants on fire 6 yr old. In Nov 07 she was diagnosed with a supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor (sPNET), a highly malignant, rare brain tumor. Dr. Nalin Gupta (UCSF) performed surgery to completely remove the tumor. She completed 9 mos of high dose chemotherapy with Dr. Paul Fisher/Trish Murphy, NP at Stanford's LPCH (Palo Alto, CA) in Aug 08. Today (19 Nov 2011) she is 1,464 days (4 yrs, 3 days) NED!!! [who's counting...?] Thank you for your positive thoughts!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Happy Birthday
Gianni had a great birthday, I think a good time was had by all. We did up the princess theme - all her friends wore costumes but after all the talk, I could not get her into her princess dress.
We ate spaghetti, cake, cookies, and ice cream. The kids played, played, and played. It was a great, big, WONDERFUL mess.
Gianni's surgery to put in the central line and gather other diagnostic data (lumbar puncture etc.) is tomorrow at 6:30am. We are hoping to be discharged within a day (or two).