Our God is bigger than this!

I can't believe I'm making this post. We are in Children's hospital in Seattle. Yesterday was Greg and my 6th wedding anniversary. Greg's parents watched Ella Sunday night so Greg (Bini) and I could go out to dinner and then Monday the plan was to go hiking. It ended up raining as we started to hike so we had a picnic and went to pick Ella up. When we got into cell phone range we got a message from Greg's mom saying Ella had a fever. When we got there she was saying her stomach hurt (she's been saying this off and on since we had the stomach bug a few weeks back, but seem to get over it quickly and is off playing again.) but yesterday she looked different. Lethargic, didn't want to eat even ice cream. She laid out across my lap and I felt her right side of her abdomen, it was more firm than the left. Immediately I got a wave of "we need to bring her to the ER" Greg and I talked and quickly moved to the ER with her, fearing it was her appendix. We waited in the ER for 3 hrs before they brought her back, agreed she was guarding her Right Lower side of her abdomen and arranged an ultrasound. I ran home at this point because my in-laws were there with Biniyam and I know he melts down a bit before going off to sleep for the night. I wanted to put him down to sleep. Greg called, it wasn't Ella's appendix, they found a mass attached to her right kidney. A mass, a mass? cancer? In a daze I moved downstairs and told my in-laws, they gladly spent the night at our house with Biniyam.

I ran around the house throwing some stuff in a bag and went back to the ER, we drove Ella down to Seattle Children's hospital, with her head on my shoulder, praying the entire way. We tried to sleep after getting into a room around 2 am. We have prayed so much, so hard for this child. We have asked everyone we know to pray, please lift Ella up in your prayers! We KNOW that our God is bigger than this mass, bigger than cancer. We know that our God is in charge of this situation. But our hearts hurt, our fear is real, our child so precious!