The P Update

9/3/2017

Friday, I went to the hospital to get my port FINALLY put in...and I didn't die on the table and they didn't have to abort mission for the second time woohoo! The bad news is, as you can see by the picture, I have incisions on both sides. No, I didn't get two ports. My Dr. initially tried putting my port in on the left side and it was a no go. He then went to my right side and it went ok apparently. So the bad news is I'm now sore on both sides and not just one, but the good news is I wanted my port on my right side anyway so it works out. My procedure went good aside from that and then I FINALLY got my picc line taken out which I couldn't be more happy about! I've been pretty sore since Friday but hoping it will wear off the next few days...below is how I spent my weekend (all iced up)! And of course I totally deserved a PTerry's chocolate milkshake after surgery....especially considering my surgery was at 4pm so I couldn't eat since dinner the night prior or drink since 10am. The picture of the wipe is from my body! One of the crappy parts after surgery is having to get off the orange Oompa Loompa colored cleaner off your body they use (and lets not even talk about the sticky crap from the other machines, that stuff takes days to get off)! I also put a picture of what my port looks like in case you've never seen one (mine is called a power port and is triangular)...

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When Cancer Comes a Knockin'

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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

Esther

9/3/2017 06:58:05 pm

I admire your strength Brianna. And thank you for sharing what a post is. I've known so many people that had them, but I was always curious to what it actually was. Bless you!

Christi

9/3/2017 08:09:52 pm

Can't wait to see u Tuesday! Lunch date 😀

Grandma BonnieKen

9/4/2017 12:43:49 pm

NANa. Praying for complete healing.

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"You either get bitter or you get better. It's that simple. You either take what's been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you."​~Josh Shipp

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"You either get bitter or you get better. It's that simple. You either take what's been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you."
~Josh Shipp