Lauren made it past August and into the fall and to her 18th birthday on December 9th…one of her goals.

So here we are into January 2009. Lauren made it past August and into the fall and to her 18th birthday on December 9th…one of her goals. She struggled terribly to keep down the experimental drugs that she was given. Her nausea was terrible. She has lost about 25 pounds since her October surgery. Her recent scans show that the tumors have not started to re-grow in her abdominal cavity two months post-surgery. This is very good news! Nor have her lung tumors increased. Her liver, however, seems to have gotten worse with about 1/3 of it compromised and non-functioning because of tumors. She is now taking the next two drugs in her experimental treatment regimen. Her nausea has decreased greatly, but now she is experiencing a lot of pain, sometimes excruciating.