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From September 19th to the 23rd, Angelina, mom and dad again ate delicious hospital food, enjoyed the company of nighttime nurses and endured Angelina’s second week of chemotherapy treatment.

Having enough time to prepare and plan, mom and dad worked it out so Luigi could be home in time to pick up and hang out with Giovanni, Angelina’s awesome big brother, while Diana watched our princess in the hospital.

God answered our prayers; the treatment was not able to weaken Angelina. Actually, you could argue that she was as bubbly and fantastic as ever (since she knew the drill and handled it like she would cake: victoriously).

Celebrating with a boom, our friends at North Bergen Recreation hosted Fun Day  on Sunday, September 25, for little Angelina. Spearheaded by NB Little League’s president, Rob Quinones, the all-day benefit (starting with breakfast at Applebees and continuing with an all-out festival at the recreation center) raised over $6,700 for Angelina!

Venders, volunteers and local restaurants generously sacrificed time, talent and treasure for the day, and for that, we are so friggen thankful.

Be sure to check out all Angelina’s upcoming benefits at www.LittleAngelina.org/events.

And, seriously, thank you for your prayers, support and sacrifice. No vocabulary has the right words to express our gratitude.

For the last week, little Angelina has been back home with mom, dad and her brother. Doctors released her after ensuring that she was physically well following her first round of chemotherapy. And well, she was.

Before leaving the hospital, though, doctors performed one vitally important test: the MIBG scan, which examined whether the cancer spread to other parts of Angelina’s body. Gladly to say—after an undoubtedly anxious weekend—the docs discovered that the monster is contained!

Mom and dad agree that in the hospital their little princess grew a couple of inches, allowing her to jump higher for the surprise face-lick or face-slap at home. 

But Angelina knows how to balance her lionhearted and macho hobbies of face-licking and slapping with the more tender art of fashion. She garbs her pretty scalp with the cutest hats, her neck with a string of gleaming pearls and her feet with her now favorite dazzling red shoes.

With her keen fashion sense, she’ll continue to look gorgeous during her second round of chemotherapy this week. Please pray that the treatment serves its purpose without weakening our Angelina too much.

 

As always, see all her pics and spread the word on www.Facebook.com/LittleAngelinaS.

 

Things are looking less painful for Angelina, which is something to celebrate!

Over the last week, she’s slowly worked herself up from eating nothing to bits of crackers to a whole slice of pizza—a good sign that doctors might let her recover from home. She’s no longer receiving a slow morphine drip to numb her pain, because she has very little (likely because the chemo is reducing the tumor’s size), freeing her up to walk around, color and kiss anyone in her immediate vicinity.

Little Angelina’s chemo treatment works in 21-day cycles, with five days straight of receiving the treatments and sixteen days of recovery. If all goes well, doctors hope to remove the tumor in six months or so—after the therapy has significantly shrunk it.

Mom and dad have been able to care for her around the clock, decorating her hospital room with an abundant amount of Disney’s Tangled furnishing.

As you can see from her pictures, mom and dad had to chop off her beautiful golden hair, because her chemotherapy has caused almost immediate hair loss. Emotionally, she’s fine with the new fashion statement, especially since, as her mom pointed out, Repunzel of Tangled also had her long, luscious hair styled short. And if Repunzel is beautiful with short hair then Angelina is all the more beautiful as well.

On behalf of Luigi, Diana and our family we want to express our continued appreciation of the love and prayers from all our supporters. Your comments are truly lifting everyone’s spirit. One individual said, “if more than one person asks God for a request he listens.”  Well, what if an entire globe is praying for your little girl?  Then HE’LL BE COMPELLED TO LISTEN!  Thus far, Angelina has people praying for her in 27 different states, 16 different countries and 5 different continents!

Lets continue our support and show the monster that, together, we can and WILL BEAT IT!

May God continue to Bless our little Angelina and all her angels. 🙂

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Its officially coming to the end of day 15 since Angels been admitted. Angelina feels the amount of love and support she has received. She ate an entire GOLDFISH cracker yesterday, which is definitely a baby step but a good sign for a girl who hasn’t eaten all but 5 Cheerios in 15 days.

We noticed that Angelina DOES NOT LIKE TO BE ASKED QUESTIONS, especially in a baby voice and especially from DOCS and NURSES, who she is understandably terrified of now.

A new DOC came in yesterday and in a baby voice said, “Can i check your temp sweetie?” Dad quickly corrected her and said, “Lose the baby voice doctor and just do it!”

She associates a baby voice and a doctor with pain to follow.

She has ended her first of a minimum of 6 -21 day cycles of chemo a few days ago; her morphine drip is starting to decrease-a good sign. She’s off of antibiotics and pretty much everything else except for TPN (her nutrition). She also smiled and laughed when we found sponge bob on TV. And she still has the NG tube up her nose but the amount of liquid/bile coming out of her stomache has significantly decreased.

Please keep her in your prayers. We have already came and will continue to support her in record numbers; we have already made GOD work overtime on her (which is ok because he doesnt sleep) and from the look in her glassy eyes today, it’s working. The most important thing we must all remember in illness is never to lose heart.

“Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.”