Milestones

Milestones:

February 13, 2008	Janica gives birth to twin girls, Laeticia and Yvanni, at the Honore-Mercier Hospital in St-Hyacinthe.
March 4, 2008	Janica visits the Charles-Lemoyne Hospital in Longueuil, where she undergoes various examinations. She suffers from violent headaches accompanied by a loss of vision.
March 6, 2008	Janica learns she has tumours in the brain, lungs and liver. The physician must confirm the treatment options with specialists.
March 7, 2008	Janica learns that her cancer is a melanoma and that, according to the Quebec specialists, there is no possible treatment. Her physician confirms that she has less than two months to live and that a place is being held for her in the palliative care unit.
March 16, 2008	The treatments at the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach begin.
March 19, 2008	The physician from the Longueuil hospital confirms that the nodule located in Janica’s lower back is a malignant melanoma.
March 28, 2008	While Janica is receiving oxygen therapy, she has a seizure. Janica falls and loses consciousness. This is her first episode of convulsions.
March 28, 2008	Janica is admitted in the intensive care unit of the “Palm West Hospital”. Her condition has stabilized, and new scans and MRI images are taken.
March 29, 2008	The physicians confirm that it is a melanoma but do not share the opinion of the Quebec specialists.
March 31, 2008	Conversation between our physician, in Quebec, and the radiotherapy specialist from the Palm West Hospital. Janica continually has seizures. The Quebec physician insists that the metastases do not react to radiotherapy and that there is no other alternative than to let Janica die at the hospital in Longueuil. The physicians from the West Palm Beach Hospital believe it is unsafe to transport Janica and are convinced that a radiotherapy treatment will help her gain some time, until a more definitive solution can be found. A decision is taken: Janica immediately begins radiotherapy treatments. Dr. Milan recommends that Janica be sent to the Lee Moffitt cancer centre after the treatments. He emphasizes that this centre is specialized in the treatment of melanomas and that it has an international reputation.
April 2, 2008	Discharge from the West Palm Beach hospital. Janica can’t walk and needs a wheelchair.
April 3, 2008	Janica’s seizures have stopped. Janica is responding to the treatments.
April 3, 2008	First contact with the Lee H. Moffitt research centre. An application must be filed for a pre-selection.
April 14, 2008	Last radiology treatment in West Palm Beach.
April 23, 2008	Admission to the Lee H. Moffitt centre. Janica must undergo new MRIs. The specialists now believe that they can treat Janica. Authorization is given to proceed with the treatments, which consist in the removal of three dangerous brain tumours by Dr. Jain.
April 28, 2008	A more elaborate MRI is taken for the operation and for the positioning of markers on Janica’s cranium.
April 29, 2008	First surgery for the removal of two brain tumours. The tumours are located at the back of the brain and affect Janica’s vision. The operation is a complete success. Janica has no more headaches.
May 5, 2008	Second surgery, for the removal of a third brain tumour. The tumour is located on the left hemisphere, very near the vital motor centres. The operation is a complete success. Janica has no more seizures.
May 14, 2008	Chemotherapy begins.