Chemo Round 2 and Week 4 of 18.....CHECK

9/10/2017

If one were to use a lint roller on their head, how weird would that be?? Asking for a friend....

I'm just gonna leave this little montage of Prednisone memes here just to give you a glimpse into my life......all so, so true.

My lovely week in the hospital for round 2 of chemo...

I've always said if you don't have a sense of humor, you could never be a teacher. You have to be able to laugh, laugh at yourself, and just laugh at the situations you're in. Well, the same goes for having cancer...so basically don't read my socks unless you can laugh : )

Couldn't be more happy to finally be home and out of the hospital! I got pretty much zero sleep while there and was miserable. For my chemo, I have to have someone come in every 2 hours to do a blood return (basically connecting to my port and making sure I have blood flowing still), then vitals every 2 hours, medicine 3-4x a day, and blood draws at 3am (yes, what a lovely hour). All of this on top of my IV beeping at random hours that they have to come in to fix etc and changing my bags out that are hooked up to me by IV 24-7. Basically, sleeping is out of the question...although its pretty much impossible to sleep in those beds anyway.

Side note, I felt the earthquake while in the hospital. I was on the 7th floor and obviously in a not study bed...and awake that late since I couldn't sleep. The nurse had just given me more sleep medicine to try to help since the other 2 obviously weren't doing anything and after she left 20 or so minutes later I thought, "wow, this medicine might actually be working and I get some sleep...." I could feel my bed slightly shaking and the hanger above me to help people out of bed was shaking. I thought I was going crazy but the next morning a different nurse asked if I felt it HA, guess it wasn't the medicine and glad I'm not crazy! Sidenote: still didn't get any sleep with 3 different sleep meds...

As for this week, I have dr's appointments (including my shot tomorrow), my VipKid interview, picking up my wig, and then more dr and labs!

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When Cancer Comes a Knockin'

Timeline

On August 2, 2017, Brianna was diagnosed with Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma. Beginning Monday, August 14, 2017, Brianna will begin chemotherapy treatments. She will be commuting to Austin for 18 weeks to receive treatments. This site is set up as a donation page to help Brianna and her family cover medical costs and living expenses, as well as a one stop shop to get updates on how chemo is going and even buy a shirt or two in support!

UPDATE:
After getting her final PET scan to confirm the aggressive chemo did it's job, we got the news that it hadn't and that the tumor was still active when it shouldn't of been. Brianna is now undergoing radiation for 5 weeks, everyday in Austin.

UPDATE March 2018:
Brianna begin having the same cancer symptoms as she did this past summer during spring break, except more painful this time. She was sent to get a CT scan which showed her cancer had returned. She then met with her oncologist who planned the next steps which include to do more chemo (a differnt regimen this time) followed by a stem cell transplant.
She thought she was done....she was done.....and now she is having to start the cancer journey all over again...including losing her hair that had just start growing back.

UPDATE
END OF MARCH - JUNE 25th
(at the moment....things have yet to even begin apparently.)
If I didn't feel like I was really dying or truly out of options to live....I do now. Remember I was basically on our plan F and everything was just getting worse instead of better. I really thought I was done these last couple weeks and being in the hospital for another little week vacay. I finally updated by blog since so many people were asking, so you can read the detailed updates.

October 2018 Update:
Insurance has finally approved all of the CAR-T procedure and I will be getting my T-Cells retrieved from my body next week. (Oct 10th if all goes as planned)

MARCH 2019
The first post CAR-T pet scan showed the main mass has shrunk in size, even though still active. Hopefully, the CAR-T will continue to work its magic over the next few months before the next scan.

To donate to Brianna's GoFundMe page, please make sure the donation is made on the GoFundMe Page found here:
https://www.gofundme.com/teambonnet

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