Jennie's Daughter Lola Responds Well To Treatment And Is Now In Remission

"In a new interview with WebMD magazine, actress Jennie Garth speaks at length about her 6-year-old daughter Lola Ray's diagnosis of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. At the height of her battle, Lola even required hospitalization for nine days while doctors scrambled to figure out what was wrong. "Since they could not treat her because they were not sure what the illness was, we decided to take her home and monitor her because we felt being in the hospital was actually making her depressed and worsening her condition," Jennie, 36, explains. "We went home and researched it on our own, with help from friends and family in the medical profession until we found web sites for JRA, which seemed to match her symptoms."
At first, Jennie admits that she and husband Peter Facinelli chalked those symptoms up to "growing pains, and her fussiness as a typical, needy 5-year-old." Lola was "just not herself," Jennie says, complaining of fatigue and wanting to be carried everywhere because her joints ached. When she developed a persistent rash and a high, prolonged fever the couple knew that something bigger was to blame. After she was discharged from the hospital, Lola got the lucky break she needed when Jennie and Peter found an "incredible specialist" at UCLA who treated their daughter for a rare form of JRA known as Still's Disease. Lola started a long-term course of the drug Naprosyn which stopped her fevers, and a short course of steroids knocked out the rash.
"She responded well to the treatment, and is now in remission...My husband and I have never been more thankful to God, that we were able to get her through this and that she is back to her old self, running and playing."
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