Obsessed w/Disney in OH
With hope, the imagination soars.
- Joined
- Sep 25, 1999
We are so excited. 
Today is 6 months until our arrival at WDW!!!!
It is such a special trip for us because we will be celebrating our daughter's cure. It will be the one year anniversary of her diagnosis with Burkitt's Lymphoma.
Jana has been hospitalized most of the time since her diagnosis in July receiving aggressive chemotherapy. Although I never imagined how great it would be to say this--she is going in the hospital next week for her LAST CHEMO ROUND!!
All of the tests, scans, and biopsies indicate that we are beating this beast and the last 3 months of treatment have been focused on maintaining the remission. It has been such a difficult journey but we are facing the end of this rough and painful segment. Now it is recovery, continued remission, and return to "new normal" life.
The worst thing I have had to do as a parent was to tell our 11-year-old that she has cancer. Immediately, there were so many questions from her..."Am I going to lose my hair?" "Can I go to school, dance, choir, etc.?" And of course the big one..."Am I going to be OK?" After we assured her that she WOULD be OK, we started to make plans for the future so she would KNOW and BELIEVE that she would be OK. During one of the first days as we coped with the news and made future plans she said, "When I am all better, can we go back to Disney??"
So, it's going to happen!!
I can't imagine how wonderful it will be to walk down Main Street in MK with our family, knowing what has been accomplished in the past year since the awful diagnosis--for Jana and all of us. If you see us--we will be walking beside the girl beaming from ear to ear and I will be the one sobbing with joy.
We can't imagine a more wonderful and magical place to be celebrating LIFE. ~Lisa
Today is 6 months until our arrival at WDW!!!!
It is such a special trip for us because we will be celebrating our daughter's cure. It will be the one year anniversary of her diagnosis with Burkitt's Lymphoma. Jana has been hospitalized most of the time since her diagnosis in July receiving aggressive chemotherapy. Although I never imagined how great it would be to say this--she is going in the hospital next week for her LAST CHEMO ROUND!!
All of the tests, scans, and biopsies indicate that we are beating this beast and the last 3 months of treatment have been focused on maintaining the remission. It has been such a difficult journey but we are facing the end of this rough and painful segment. Now it is recovery, continued remission, and return to "new normal" life. The worst thing I have had to do as a parent was to tell our 11-year-old that she has cancer. Immediately, there were so many questions from her..."Am I going to lose my hair?" "Can I go to school, dance, choir, etc.?" And of course the big one..."Am I going to be OK?" After we assured her that she WOULD be OK, we started to make plans for the future so she would KNOW and BELIEVE that she would be OK. During one of the first days as we coped with the news and made future plans she said, "When I am all better, can we go back to Disney??"
So, it's going to happen!!
I can't imagine how wonderful it will be to walk down Main Street in MK with our family, knowing what has been accomplished in the past year since the awful diagnosis--for Jana and all of us. If you see us--we will be walking beside the girl beaming from ear to ear and I will be the one sobbing with joy.
We can't imagine a more wonderful and magical place to be celebrating LIFE. ~Lisa
We're just working on one year from diagnosis--I can't imagine 5 year cancer free anniversary!! 
