Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | my friend has leukemia and i need some hugs

So my good friend was diagnosed with leukemia in September and it has just been a rollercoaster of emotions since then. She goes to school with me and had to drop out because there was just no way she would be strong enough and the chemo schedule is just too intensive. It's just crazy too because she is 24 and was so healthy and then boom. It's so scary. When she found out (after going the hospital one night because she was finally just feeling so awful and ended up having 4 blood transfusions and they told her she could have died soon if she hadn't come in and they didn't see how she was walking around) but they told her that her prognosis was good and that they should have her in remission by last month and that she wouldn't need a bone marrow transplant and that the leukemia wasn't in her spine (which is a very bad thing since that connects to your brain). Well then one kind of chemo ended up not working for her since she had a really bad pancreas reaction so they had to stop that, and then they decided that maybe a bone marrow transplant was a good idea just because then she'd be cured (though she was quite hesistant about that since it's so risky) well then they tested her sister and found she was a perfect match and that was great news if they decided they needed to do it. Well then it turns out that her sister is missing like 3 main links on being a match and now they don't feel comfortable using her and need to find a match elsewhere. Then Nicki was getting so sick lately and her neck and back were killing her and so last weekend she was in the hospital and they told her that they saw something in her spine and that it could be the leukemia in there and they'd have to test it. So we've all been praying all week that that wasn't the case because then she'd have to get a titanium port stuck into her head (and it's just so sad because she has no hair) and they'll have to give her more intensive chemo through her brain and she's only like 5' tall and really small and the chemo now is giving her a hard enough time so she just didn't see how she could take anything more intensive. Well they did the tests on Monday and she hadn't heard anything all week and so tonight she text messages me on my phone and says that she's in the cancer hospital in Tampa (where she's been going for all of this) and they found it in her spine and they've already started the chemo. I just can't believe that so much could happen to her and that it keeps getting worse! She doesn't feel like talking and I can't even imagine how upset she is. Plus the financial burdens of this are going to be at least a quarter of a million dollars and she had to take a break from paying her school loans so she can get new loans to pay for all of this because her medical insurance only covers up to a million I think. Anyhow, I just felt like I needed to let all of this out. Thanks for reading this if you made it this far! Hope everyone else is doing well.

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