my sweet stella

last weekend my brother in law, will, took his oldest daughter stella to the eye doctor for a check-up. when they examined her eyes, the discovered that she is 100% blind in her left eye. monday, they had an appointment with the retina specialist in dallas and he informed will and lucy that stella has unilateral sporadic retinoblastoma which is a rare form of cancer in the eye. only one eye is affected as far as we can tell at this point. she has an MRI today to determine if the cancer has spread beyond the eye. she is having surgery friday to remove her eye, as this is the only way to assure that the cancer will be 100% removed (provided they don't find anything on the MRI today).

last night we had a party at will's for stella. a lot of her friends were there. they dressed up, played in the rain and had a great time. one of their friends made bracelets for us to wear to remember stella as she goes through this trying time in her life.

here are some pictures i took from last night's party! i will keep you guys updated as i find out more about my sweet stella. what an amazing, courageous, confident girl.

here's a story to leave you with.

lucy was driving ivy and stella to school yesterday when ivy asked stella "aren't you scared to have your eye taken out?" stella said "it's better than having cancer!!" to which ivy replied "fo real!!!"