Christina Stiverson will talk about her daughter Adelaide ( Addie) who was diagnosed with the very rare Liver Cancer known as Hepatoblastoma as she approached her 2nd birthday in the fall of 2015 and passed away in December of 2016
About this episode
Christina Stiverson shares the heartbreaking story of her daughter Addie's battle with Hepatoblastoma and the impact of her illness on the family.
After being shuttled back and forth between her home and hospital emergency rooms for months in 2015 because of recurring fevers, Addie Stiverson received the very difficult diagnosis of Hepatoblastoma in the autumn of 2015 while visiting family in Colorado. Although her doctors were optimistic that Addie would recover from this Liver Cancer, her body said otherwise as after a Liver Transplant, Addie's cancer spread to her lungs and then her brain. Addie passed away on December 20th of 2016, ...
People in this episode
Host: Mark Levine
Guest: Christina Stiverson
Topics covered
- childhood cancer
- Hepatoblastoma
- family health
- grief
- pediatric medicine
Keywords
- Hepatoblastoma
- Liver Cancer
- childhood illness
- pediatric cancer
- family support
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