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Sweet Bea Fundraiser
When
- Thursday
- Feb. 9, 2012
- 4:00 PM
Description
Beatrice is six years old and has lot of friends, some from school and some pretty much her whole life. She loves to play with everybody, pretty much. Bea is happy to play indoors and out. She loves to draw, bake cookies and play with her little brother Lewis, who is four. Her favorite thing to eat is edamame. Second best is broccoli. Third best is pizza. Then sweets. Yes, seriously. No lie.
Beatrice was diagnosed with DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a rare, aggressive and almost always terminal form of brain cancer. The diagnosis was made on December 17, 2011. She was taken to the local ER because her parents thought she was dehydrated with the flu. That's how fast and sneaky the symptoms are. They had no idea she had a tumor. The situation was so bad that she was air lifted in a helicopter to a local children's hospital within 90 minutes of our initial ER visit and she had to have an emergency tube put into her brain to prevent stroke.
She is undergoing radiation and the hope is that all of her life skills will come back with healing and therapy.
However, this terrible disease that she has always comes back, sometimes very, very quickly. It could be weeks, months or a couple of years with just the radiation.
So, her family is looking into clinical trials and have found a few that are promising.
Beatrice was diagnosed with DIPG, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a rare, aggressive and almost always terminal form of brain cancer. The diagnosis was made on December 17, 2011. She was taken to the local ER because her parents thought she was dehydrated with the flu. That's how fast and sneaky the symptoms are. They had no idea she had a tumor. The situation was so bad that she was air lifted in a helicopter to a local children's hospital within 90 minutes of our initial ER visit and she had to have an emergency tube put into her brain to prevent stroke.
She is undergoing radiation and the hope is that all of her life skills will come back with healing and therapy.
However, this terrible disease that she has always comes back, sometimes very, very quickly. It could be weeks, months or a couple of years with just the radiation.
So, her family is looking into clinical trials and have found a few that are promising.
Phone
770-973-0100
