Misty needs another surgery…
January 9, 2008Below is taken from an email I sent out tonight:
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So Misty’s brain surgery yesterday went well in that they did no damage to her brain…so today we are better off than we were a week ago. For those of you who don’t know, her Cancer has progressed quite a bit and was affecting her speech significantly, so we felt a removal of some of the tumor was the best approach before starting a new chemo (the old one doesn’t work anymore). Anyway, the bad news is that there was a section (right in her speech area) that was not reachable in yesterdays surgery. They only got about 50-60% of the tumor. The neuro-surgeon suggests that we go in for round 2 tomorrow. This is kinda unprecedented, but he takes special care of misty and really wants to take another crack at it. The risks are basically the same as they were the first time (infection, seizures, small risk of permanent damage if there is a mistake or if they cut in too far). So tomorrow they will enter the brain through the same skull area and approach the tumor from a different side. This will allow them to get to a different area of the tumor and remove another large chunk.
Misty is ok with this. The beginnings of her recovery today has been very good…so I think this gives her confidence to go in for round 2 (really round 4).
So please pray with us tomorrow anytime from 1pm to 5pm (thats most likely when we will be under the knife) that this is a very complete resection and that they are able to reach most of the tumor (the more we get, the better chance we have that the new chemo will be effective)
Thanks…I know there are an army of people praying for her. I’m especially glad about that because then more people will be able to hold personal testimony when God heals her…
Darren