The Nihei's: Our Story
On April 1, 2008, our 4-year-old daughter, Lauren, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After her biopsy on April 8th it was determined that she had a bithalamic anaplastic astrocytoma with extension into her brain stem.
In the beginning of March we noticed a personality change in Lauren who normally is a very outgoing and happy-go-lucky kid. She became very clingy and shy. She didn't want to talk on the phone anymore, or play on the slide with the other kids at pre-school. By mid-March, Lauren started complaining about headaches. Her pediatrician thought it might be a sinus infection or that she may need glasses. He put her on antibiotics and we made an eye appointment.
A few days later when she started holding her head funny and her headaches returned we insisted on a CT scan. That's when her pediatrician sent us to the ER at Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) for a CT scan, and when our world was turned upside down and our nightmare began...
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Here is Lauren and her new glasses with clear non-prescription lenses. It is a good thing we got them, or else how else could she have found her way to the bathroom at 3 am in the morning when she insisted that we put them on her before she would walk to the bathroom. I'm still not sure how she was able to cope without glasses for so long, since that is the first thing she needs to put on in the morning. She'd wake up, fumble for her glasses, put them on, yawn, blink a couple of times, and then say good-morning. It's just another reminder we always have to watch out what we do since they are always watching and copying. And granny still doesn't understand why I don't like it when she is constantly picking her nose in front of the children.
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