![]() Turns out there was a piece of tissue, that looked like brain matter, that was left inside the cavity. She got to a point that she and her team thought they had it all. The initial surgery to remove the tumor took 7 hours and the surgeon removed what she thought was the entire tumor. ![]() The spinal fluid had begun to put pressure on her brain as well as the tumor thus causing her to lose her mobility. Because of the size of the tumor (7 cm x 5 cm x 3 cm) it was preventing spinal fluid from draining. The tumor sat on the right side of brain near her cerebellum. ![]() It was determined that she has a rare childhood brain tumor known as Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma (“JPA”). An MRI that was to take a few hours took five hours. They couldn’t do the MRI the day we arrived because of the lack of availability of the MRI machine and an anesthesiologist. They scheduled an MRI for the next morning. We went to her pediatrician’s office and they sent us to VCU Children’s Hospital located in Richmond, Virginia.Īfter a bunch of questions and several evaluations, she was given a room on the pediatric floor. I sat Squish monster up in her walker to help build her core strength back up and within 20 seconds her head fell backwards and she could not pick it back up. Between the various trips to her pediatrician for check-ups ,Squish monster grew weaker even though her ear infections were starting to dissipate. This year took our family by surprise, while thinking that the recovery from my own personal sickness was complete and that I was well on my way to making payment arrangements to cover my medical bills, our Squish monster (daughter) developed a double ear infection.
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