My 14 year-old daughter just had a multi-visceral transplant to treat a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor that had spread to her liver and had attached itself to her stomach, kidney and back. It was a huge, nasty thing that was barely resectable. In one place the pathology report was .1 cm ‘negative at the margin’ and the surgeon had removed as much internal tissue as he possibly could.
We thought her stomach pain was menstrual cramps until her weight-loss became alarming. Even then it took 3 months before her doctor did a CT scan and discovered it. This is just not anything that 14 year-old kids get, or didn’t used to be.
Now she will be fighting transplant-related issues for the rest of her life, but there was no alternative. Chemo doesn’t work against this kind of cancer. 6 months of chemo only kept it from spreading more than it did. .1 cm more and we would have been facing the reality of watching her die from this.
14 years-old. My God, my God.
That must have been a hellish experience for you all. Thank God your daughter is all right, and thank God for modern medicine.
Your daughter and your family are in my prayers.
My ex is a transplant surgeon who does lots of multi vis txs & travels the world lecturing on them at various transplants conferences. I am a nurse anesthetist & I’ve provided anesthesia for lots of these operations. We have been touched in our lives by many patients like your daughter. Although my child has never been through this, I can somewhat understand what you deal with. May God bless your daughter, you, and your family.
Your daughter has my prayers. I know they work, because that is what has kept me alive all these years.
Hang in there....
Prayers for you and your daughter. Have you read Anticancer by Dr. David Servant-Schrieber? It is a fascinating a book in which he discusses his encounters with brain cancer. He is an MD and a Ph.D. He outlines natural cancer prevention and natural cancer treatments. He makes a point to write that there is no natural cure after cancer has been diagnosed, but there are natural ways to help medical approaches. It is a very good book and uses published medical studies to back up his natural claims. He doesn’t just tell you to eat nothing but broccoli for three months and you’re cured.
I will pray for you and your daughter.
“14 years old”
Many, many prayers for you and your baby. May God heal her ailment and give her family strength and comfort during this time. God bless.
Prayers for you, and your daughter my FRiend. May God give you all strength and comfort.
Tatt
I’m sorry to hear that.
Prayers for you and your family.
Prayers up. Keep the faith, Dan!
Prayers for your daughter and for you...