Here is the latest update regarding Alese Coco and it's not good:
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Something Went Horribly Wrong...
Due to low platelets counts and other blood counts being insufficient, the surgery to install the Hickman catheter did not take place until 6:00 this evening.
During the procedure, one of the surgeons nicked her lung and it collapsed. Shortly thereafter, she began bleeding in-between her heart and lung. They’ve installed a chest tube and she’s on a ventilator.
This is not a unfavorable scenerio and Alese remains in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of City of Hope in Duarte.
We’ll update her site as information becomes available.
We request your prayers,
The Coco’s
Link to post on Alese's website
As I mentioned in a previous post, Alese had a similar diagnosis to Keith's about 5 years ago when she was a senior in high school. She has fallen into the lower percent of HD patients that are not cured after chemo/radiation, or the second round with a stem cell transplant and high dosage chemotherapy. Alese has gone on to some experimental treatments and has been fighting for years now. She is only 23. Please keep her in your prayers.
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