How the second battle began

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Well, I was really hoping we would never need this page again and I planned to keep it closed forever.  However, on Tuesday, Taylor started bleeding heavily so we took her to the urgent care, where she continued to bleed, so we were then sent to the ER.  Over the next few very scary days, we found out by a scope that Taylor has Esophageal Varices.  Since she had such heavy duty chemos during her cancer fight, her liver- unbeknownst to us- had gotten hard.  Since her liver is hard blood couldn’t flow through it.  Her blood rerouted to her esophagus and she developed EV.  During the scope they tied off the bleeders, which put a band aide on the problem, but didn’t fix the blood flow issue.  They did a CT scan to check the liver and then to see if she has a safe way to reroute the blood to her heart.  The plan is to do a surgery to make a new pathway, if her liver is healthy enough.  We don’t know much about whether they found a pathway yet… if they don’t find one, she will need a liver transplant.  Today she got a liver biopsy done and in the meeting they told us that she has a nodule on her liver that showed on the CT scan.   they did a biopsy of it when they biopsied the other part of the liver.  So it got biopsied in two spots.  I asked if the nodule was cancerous, and they said they didn’t know.  We will find out results of that sometime this week.

Anyway, for those of you who are not friends with me on Facebook and don’t know updates about Taylor the last few years…. The girl has lived life to THE FULLEST.  She has turned into the most empathetic, beautiful, and sweet young lady.  She has a way of making people feel so special.  She’s been healthy and active and we have had a fantastic 9 years since her cancer fight.  

We don’t know what is going to come of all this, but we could use all her sweet prayer warriors cheering her on again!  You helped us through a rough time when she had her neuroblastoma fight, and we would feel honored if you followed her through this new battle.  I added pictures of last week, when she was in the hospital with the heavy bleeding (it was really bad and I felt like we almost lost her, in 4 days she had 3 blood transfusions).  She’s out of the hospital now and feeling pretty great!  Welcome back to “Praying For Taylor” friends!