ReynasFight

Written December 18, 2010
A week ago my mom travelled to Mexico to be with her sister Lupa and the entire family to grieve the death of Lupa's son Charlie(my mom's godchild, our awesome cousin). Charlie died suddenly in an accident. He was only 32. While there my mom struggled with traumatic emotions of his death. With all the emotions, my Mom began acting very sick, and tired and lethargic. Everyone thought, (even me and Tony who travelled with her to Mexico), her sickness was due to the impact of the death and that her immune system was just supressed and crashing and that after a few days of rest, she would feel better.
Well a few days came and she continued to mourn for Charlie and her family, and she continued to feel sick. My dad kept asking her over and over to go to emergency but like my mom, strong willed that she is, said "I just need to rest", "I will be ok". So a few more days passed and finally on Saturday Dec. 18th in the afternoon, she asked my dad to take her to emergency. From there they rushed her by ambulance to the University of Michigan Medical Hospital, in Ann Arbor Michigan.
After a blood draw, and tests, my mother has been diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. (AML). AML is a type of blood cancer. Another name for AML is acute myeloid leukemia.
AML is a type of cancer that starts in the marrow. The marrow is the spongy center inside your bones. To understand this fully please google it. But in a nutshell, the Leukemia is taking over her good blood cells and her white blood counts are so high, off the charts. Her red blood cells and platellets are critically low.
This has been very sudden and tests are being ran to determine the level and severity of her cancer.
The purpose of this page is to keep everyone informed of her status. My brothers and I will post here when new information is confirmed.
I know everyone loves her and we are asking for you to pray for her to beat this. We all know she is strong willed, and we know she is strong in her faith. Please keep her in your prayers.
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Love,
Ginny