Shannon Reeves
Hi Everyone,
Shannon has been diagnosed with
Early T-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ETP ALL)
EarlyT-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ETP-ALL) is a highly aggressive subtype of T-ALL characterized by the abnormal expression of myeloid/stem cell antigens. The plan for her is to receive 3 to 4 rounds(6-8 cycles of A and B each) of chemotherapy and get into remission. Then, she will undergo a bone marrow transplant to completely replace her bone marrow with healthy marrow and keep the disease from returning.
Shannon has many friends and family that want to stay updated on the latest news regarding her health and treatment plans. This website will serve as a place for updates so that we can post one update that everyone has access to. This frees up time spent texting many individual numbers and also prevents us from accidently leaving people out. Please feel free to leave comments on each post/update. Shannon will be able to read all of your comments.
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Updates
July 8th
Hurricane Beryl hit us this morning. We couldn't see much from the hospital window other than lots of rain blowing sideways. It wasn't until our boys sent us pics of the back yard that I realized it was a pretty significant storm. Parts of our fence fell on both sides...
July 7th Night-Time update
Shannon had a fever this evening of 102.5 °F. The nurse gave her Tylenol and it dropped to 100.9 °F. The doctor ordered blood cultures x2 and also started her on 2 IV antibiotics (Vancomycin and Cefepime). They're also doing a urine culture. These cultures are to rule...
July 7th
Shannon had a rough night. Her pain is increasing as the lymph nodes increase in size. To me it feels like there's also a lot of swelling and inflammation around the lymph nodes in her neck. Her attending prescribed a powerful IV pain medication that she can have...
July 6th
Shannon's pain worsend last night. The pain is not just in her right collar bone area, but is also radiating to her neck. Injectable anti-inflammatory meds are working best so far. Shannon has been holding off on eating anything until we find out if surgery can occur...
July 5th
The Hematology/Oncology resident stopped by early this morning to check on Shannon. No biopsy results, no news yet.Shannon had Chic-fil-A for breakfast. Around noon, the attending Dr G stopped by. She looked over available results but no pathology results back...
July 4th
Shannon ate lunch: Turkey with Gravy, mashed potatoes and green beans. Slow day so far due to the holiday. Shannon's attending "Dr. G" did stop by briefly and said all Infectious Disease results are negative so far. There's no results available on the biopsy from...
July 3rd, Biopsy
Shannon was NPO since midnight last night (latin: "nil per os"... a.k.a. nothing by mouth). They didn't want her to eat just in case a spot opened up on the surgical schedule. Surgically removing one of the affected lymph nodes provides a better sample for the lab to...
July 1st and 2nd
On July 1st we visited our PCP Dr. Hoang and decided to head straight to Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center aftewards. We went to St. Lukes because our original suspicion was that Shannon had Lymphoma. That was the potential diagnosis made from the outpatient ER where...