Earlier this month, Marenna Crawford, 17, went to prom wearing a red, corsetted dress with off-the-shoulder sleeves and a long train. The same weekend, the Round Rock, Texas, senior also learned that her health care team at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin no longer works there.
Marenna was 6 months old the first time she was diagnosed with kidney cancer and 3 years old the second time.
Her treatment included radiation to shrink the cancer to her abdomen. A side effect was that it could cause premature menopause if she didn’t have hormone replacements.
Her father Tom Crawford, said he got a call Friday, May 12, from the Dell Children’s Adolescent Medicine clinic to notify him that all the doctors at the clinic were leaving. The family would have to get care for her elsewhere, he said.
