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Welcome to For the Love of Lundy team page! We have put this team together to honor and celebrate our amazing friend and colleague, Katie Lundy. Katie’s cancer journey began on her 11th birthday. At the time she was in 5th grade and her school was doing routine eye exams for the students. As Katie’s turn came up something happened for the first time she failed a test. After failing to see the big E on the exam board she was retested a couple weeks later with the same result. After further discussions with Katie’s pediatrician, she was sent to an Ophthalmologist at Barnes Jewish Hospital. Hours of testing determined that Katie’s central vision was 400/20 and she had no right peripheral vision she had suffered either a brain bleed, swelling of the brain, or a brain tumor. An MRI soon followed and revealed that Katie had a mass the size of a golf ball in her brain. Shortly thereafter, Katie and her family were meeting with St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s top Neurosurgeon and scheduled a surgery to remove the brain tumor. Unfortunately, during the surgery the medical team was unable to take the tumor out, as it was wrapped around the Optic Nerve behind her left eye. Katie was in the hospital for 5 days to recover from this surgery and had to come back just two weeks later to have a port-a-cath put in and begin chemotherapy. From there Katie endured 22 grueling months of chemotherapy while also enduring an allergic reaction to the treatments. At the end of all of this, the chemo had thankfully shrunk the tumor. Two years later, Katie started to lose her vision again and an MRI determined the tumor was growing. This time around, she completed 31 radiation treatments to her brain during the winter of 2004-2005 at Siteman Cancer Center. After the radiation, it was determined the tumor grew quicker than before and would likely need continued observation. As you might imagine, Katie’s cancer fight does not end here. In the summer of 2022, Katie began chemotherapy once more through a pill she took twice a day. For the 9 months following, she took over 380 doses of chemotherapy and endured side effects such as rashes, acne rash, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, swelling in her joints, chest pain, and the inability to walk from Neuropathy. If you have lost count here, since Katie’s diagnoses she has endured a brain surgery, two port-a-caths, four port-a-cath surgeries, 15 different chemotherapies, 31 days of radiations, over 80 MRI’s and countless doctor appointments and blood work. Now, with being in remission, we will continue to hope that the tumor remains stable and doesn’t grow any further. Katie has been nothing short of amazing throughout her cancer battle. If you have even got to spend just a few minutes with her, you would never for a second think that she has been through so much. Katie has spent over half her life taking on cancer all while excelling in everything she takes on. I think that many of us can agree that Katie is truly someone to look up to from how she has balanced all that life has thrown at her in such a short time. Somehow, she has taken on the good and the bad, with an unwavering level of grace, grit and determination that is truly something to strive for. In Katie’s honor, we (her colleagues at World Wide Technology), have put together this team for the 4th annual Shave to Save at Ball Park Village (in St. Louis, MO) on Thursday, May 30t to honor and celebrate her journey that has led her to today. All proceeds raised through Shave to Save go to the World Wide Technology American Cancer Society Hope Lodge in St. Louis to ensure that the #HopeLodgeSTL can continue to provide free overnight lodging to cancer patients and their caregivers who have to travel away from home for treatment. We hope you can join us in celebrating Katie and reaching our goal! No amount is too small and you may donate on this page or purchase a ticket for the event and designate to have your ticket amount go towards reaching our goal. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please reach out to Katie Lundy katie.lundy@wwt.com, Mandy Sanfilippo mandy.sanfilippo@wwt.com, or Tiffany Umphenour, tiffany.umphenour@wwt.com. Thank you!
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Welcome to For the Love of Lundy team page! We have put this team together to honor and celebrate our amazing friend and colleague, Katie Lundy.
Katie’s cancer journey began on her 11th birthday. At the time she was in 5th grade and her school was doing routine eye exams for the students. As Katie’s turn came up something happened for the first time she failed a test. After failing to see the big E on the exam board she was retested a couple weeks later with the same result.
After further discussions with Katie’s pediatrician, she was sent to an Ophthalmologist at Barnes Jewish Hospital. Hours of testing determined that Katie’s central vision was 400/20 and she had no right peripheral vision she had suffered either a brain bleed, swelling of the brain, or a brain tumor. An MRI soon followed and revealed that Katie had a mass the size of a golf ball in her brain.
Shortly thereafter, Katie and her family were meeting with St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s top Neurosurgeon and scheduled a surgery to remove the brain tumor. Unfortunately, during the surgery the medical team was unable to take the tumor out, as it was wrapped around the Optic Nerve behind her left eye. Katie was in the hospital for 5 days to recover from this surgery and had to come back just two weeks later to have a port-a-cath put in and begin chemotherapy. From there Katie endured 22 grueling months of chemotherapy while also enduring an allergic reaction to the treatments. At the end of all of this, the chemo had thankfully shrunk the tumor.
Two years later, Katie started to lose her vision again and an MRI determined the tumor was growing. This time around, she completed 31 radiation treatments to her brain during the winter of 2004-2005 at Siteman Cancer Center. After the radiation, it was determined the tumor grew quicker than before and would likely need continued observation. As you might imagine, Katie’s cancer fight does not end here.
In the summer of 2022, Katie began chemotherapy once more through a pill she took twice a day. For the 9 months following, she took over 380 doses of chemotherapy and endured side effects such as rashes, acne rash, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, swelling in her joints, chest pain, and the inability to walk from Neuropathy.
If you have lost count here, since Katie’s diagnoses she has endured a brain surgery, two port-a-caths, four port-a-cath surgeries, 15 different chemotherapies, 31 days of radiations, over 80 MRI’s and countless doctor appointments and blood work. Now, with being in remission, we will continue to hope that the tumor remains stable and doesn’t grow any further.
Katie has been nothing short of amazing throughout her cancer battle. If you have even got to spend just a few minutes with her, you would never for a second think that she has been through so much. Katie has spent over half her life taking on cancer all while excelling in everything she takes on. I think that many of us can agree that Katie is truly someone to look up to from how she has balanced all that life has thrown at her in such a short time. Somehow, she has taken on the good and the bad, with an unwavering level of grace, grit and determination that is truly something to strive for.
In Katie’s honor, we (her colleagues at World Wide Technology), have put together this team for the 4th annual Shave to Save at Ball Park Village (in St. Louis, MO) on Thursday, May 30t to honor and celebrate her journey that has led her to today. All proceeds raised through Shave to Save go to the World Wide Technology American Cancer Society Hope Lodge in St. Louis to ensure that the #HopeLodgeSTL can continue to provide free overnight lodging to cancer patients and their caregivers who have to travel away from home for treatment.
We hope you can join us in celebrating Katie and reaching our goal! No amount is too small and you may donate on this page or purchase a ticket for the event and designate to have your ticket amount go towards reaching our goal.
If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please reach out to Katie Lundy katie.lundy@wwt.com, Mandy Sanfilippo mandy.sanfilippo@wwt.com, or Tiffany Umphenour, tiffany.umphenour@wwt.com. Thank you!
