Born: September 18, 1996
Illness: Undifferentiated Embryonal Sarcoma, Liver Transplant Recipient 02-17-10
Quilt Deadline: October 15, 2010
Theme of Quilt: Realistic Family Pets - Carrie is being listed with the theme family pets.........BUT we are encouraging the exotic pets as much as the dogs and cats and hamsters and rabbits and baby ducks and chicks....
The following interests are mainly to help you get to know the children better.
You may use what you can towards the theme of the quilt, but make sure that you stitch within the theme.
Carrie's interests are: Purple and green. Carrie lives in OK.
Click here to see the squares for Carrie as they come in for her (Please keep in mind that her quilt was not opened to stitchers until June 2010)
Carrie started her problems around September 9 2009. She was diagnosed with Undifferentiated Embryonal Sarcoma (UES) of liver, stage four. UES is a rare malignant Soft tissue cancer with a poor prognosis. Carrie recieved her first three day treatment of aggressive chemotherapy the next day, and spent the next two weeks in the picu (pedriatics intensive care unit), and ten days in a medically induced coma. She endured 7 Chemo treatments, a whole liver transplant, and three additional chemo treatments.
She is now in Remission and yet very depressed because of the liver transplant, we are not able to go home to Oklahoma. We are in the Ronald Mcdonald House in Cincinnati, Ohio. Carrie was supposed to go home the first week in June if there were no complications.
Update:
There are complications now of a bile leak with a unsuccessful ERCP to put in a
stint.
Carrie is weak, light hurts her eyes, and she had another fever. But she has been feeling so much better and eating regularly. Happy for the small things.
Carrie's infection is Pseudomona, most likely at her bile drain site. But they are still testing to find if it is in the blood or somewhere else. The Dr's feel they can narrow the antibiotics down to two IVs (gentamicin, and meropenem). She is also back on the prophylactic meds that she had after liver transplant.
CHANGE! The pattern listing site has changed.
We have moved our pattern listing to yahoo groups to make it easier and faster to see your patterns. You will need to join the yahoo groups to see the listing, but it is an open group so you can sign up easily and view the patterns right away. Once you are a member you wont have to sign up again, just sign in and to make it easier yahoo allows you to stay signed in for 2 weeks at a time! Please follow this link to sign into the Love Quilts Yahoo Group...
Once there click on the link "database" on the right to view the children and their patterns. If you have any questions about they yahoo groups please email Cyberfogie@aol.com, Vicki, for further instructions (yahoo groups email only!) Thanks!
