For more detailed updates, please visit Casey's carepage at Children's Memorial Hospital. Go to www.carepages.com and sign in as a visitor. Casey's patient contact is Caser3o3.

 

Casey was diagnosed in August 2006 with a brain tumor. She had brain surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital on October 27, 2006. The tumor was inoperable (it is actually inside her left optic nerve). In November 2007, Casey had a port surgically placed in her chest and began a grueling schedule of chemo during her junior and senior year of high school.  The tumor shrank 25% but still remains.  She has now completed her treatment and will have MRI's every three months to check on the status of the tumor.

 

Casey visits some of her favorite people at CMH. Nurses Kim and Donna (above) and her boo Cheryl (below).

Casey (pictured with her dad) was an ambassador for the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation for the Chicago Rock and Roll Marathon, August 2009. A team ran for Casey to help raise money for Bear Necessities. Below is Gina Baldacci, Casey's social worker from Children's Memorial, who did an awesome job (she finished and was still standing!).

Last summer, Bear Necessities granted Casey a small miracle.  Her wish was to see Jersey Boys and eat a sushi dinner (she did not eat any sushi during chemo for fear it would ruin her taste for it).  Dinner was delicious and she had a fabulous evening.