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Emmie-Pie with Ronald McDonald

Please continue to pray for a cure for this type of cancer that Emmie-Pie has.  Neuroblastoma is a malignant (cancerous) tumor that develops from nerve tissue.

Apparently, there is still no cure for this cancer and the life span is about 4-10 years unless they come up with a cure.  Right now, the doctors are trying to slow down Emmie’s cancer until they find something that will be a cure.

On Feb. 1st, Emmie-Pie and Darla (mom) returned back to Washington State to continue treatment here.  Darla’s insurance refused to pay for the chemo treatments in NY noting she can get those in Washington.  They will go back to NY when the 2nd phase of the humanize antibody comes out.

While in NY, Emmie-Pie had 2 MIBG Therapies.  They took some antibody and mixed it with radioactive and injected it right into Emmie’s body.  This therapy finds the cancer cells and tries to kill it.  The hospital had to put a shield around the room so Darla wouldn’t get a lot of radiation.

The family also found out while in NY that Emmie-Pie was never in remission.  She always had Neuroblastoma in her legs and the doctors didn’t do a MIBG scan to show the cancer in her bones of her legs. However, the MRI shows her head and brain are normal and have no cancer. Praise God.

Currently, Emmie-Pie is at the Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and will be there for about 4-5 weeks then radiation again on her left thigh which has gotten worse.  You can see some other spots all over both legs but after she is done with radiation the doctors will come up with a plan to maintain her cancer until the 2nd phase of the H3F8 comes out.  At that time, Emmie-Pie and her mom will fly back to NY for this rare treatment (testing phase).

Here is some history starting on Jan. 21st to now to bring everyone current.

On Jan. 21, Darla wrote:  Emmie-Pie’s counts came up all by themselves and she doesn’t need her stem cells.  The doctor said this is uncommon for this kind of treatment that she got twice.  So Emmie-Pie gets scans on Jan. 24 and 25 to see what kind of treatment they will be doing next.

On Jan. 25, Darla wrote:  Well we got the scans today and she is better.  You can see some spots but very faint.  However, she has one spot on her thigh that got worse so now she has to start very high dose chemo for 5 days on Monday, Jan 30th and then on Monday, Feb.  6th we get stem cells back and we wait for scans to see what we are going to do next.  Find more out tomorrow and I will let ya know more.

On Feb. 6, Darla wrote:  Emmie-Pie got some platelets today and she is getting MRI of her head and thigh on the 8th and then right in to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital for blood then high dose chemo.

On Feb. 8, Darla wrote: Emmie-Pie and I just checked in to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and she is getting blood right now and she will start high dose chemo tonight for 5 days, tomorrow we will get the results of the MRI of the head and brain and will let you know when we find out something.

On Feb. 10, Darla wrote:  Emmie-Pie’s MRI of her head was clear of disease. THANK GOD and thanks for everyone’s prayers.  We have finished chemo and getting stem cells Wednesday, 15th.

On Feb. 16, Darla wrote: wbc is 0 and she’s going to be getting platelets today and blood tomorrow so we are going to be here (Mary Bridge) a few weeks but no fever and mouth soars so far.

Thanks for all the support!! Love you guys.

Please share this with your friends and family.  Little Emmie-Pie certainly needs our prayers and support.

If you want to make a donation, you can make a payment to Wells Fargo Bank for Emilye Flick: Routing # 125008547 / Account # 8200902354.  Also she would probably love to get mail so here is her home address:  6705 96th st E., Puyallup, WA 98371.

To see the pictures from August 2011 garage sale, click here.