Good News and Bad News

The Good news is that they were able to remove the entire tumor from Daniel's brain. He is in recovery and doing as well as to be expected after brain surgery. The Bad news, is that they think the tumor is a medulloblastoma which is a cancerous tumor. They won't have the final patholgoy report back until Wednesday to know if he needs chemo or radiation. I went up to see him today and the poor lil guy is in so much pain and just isn't himself due to all the medication he is on. THANK YOU all for your kind thoughts and prayers!!

Prayers for Daniel

My 5 yr old nephew, Daniel, has been through WAY more in his first 5 little years of life so far than anyone should in their entire life. He and my brother came to live with my Mom 3 years ago while my bro was going through a nasty divorce and med school. Daniel was very malnourished and neglected. He lived with a mother who suffered from munchhausen's by proxy, if you haven't heard of this, it's where someone makes up illnesses they claim their children have to get medical attention. So from being born early and spending months in the NICU and then under going lots of possibly unnecessary medical treatments as an infant. He was gaining weight and developing well after living with my Mom and Lawrence, but over the last 2 months he started throwing up, which should be physically impossible for him because he had Nissen surgery when he was little. We all thought it might be related to the stress he has been under lately because his Dad is remarrying and he will be moving to a new school and new home. They did a barium swallow test to check his Nissen since he shouldn't be able to throw up in the first place. They found he has some diverticulitis (a bulging in the intestinal lining), but they thought that was more likely a side effect of the vomitting and not the cause so they were planning to do more testing. Then, yesterday Daniel just wasn't doing well, he has lost some weight form the vomtting and been really tired and weak, so my bro took him to the ER. They did a MRI and found a brain tumor in the base of his brain that is slightly bulging into the brain stem. They are doing surgery today sometime to try and remove the entire tumor and find out if it's cancerous. So even if you don't know my cute lil nephew, please have a prayer in your heart for him and our family today.