Then, Everything Really Changed
Then, the Christmas after the Pope came, they received a call from an oncologist. The doctor had requested a biopsy and had the results for the family. As it turns out, the tumor was not malignant as they had thought. “It ended up being a very rare form of histiocytosis, a blood disease where Gianna’s blood cells were attacking her most vital organ, her brain stem,” Kristen said.