This is copied from an e-mail Greg sent out today
Please pray for guidance over the surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses hands and minds tomorrow. We are praying specifically, that there would be no complications during or after surgery, that there would be no evidence of local spread or metastases, and no tumor rupture during manipulation of it. Also praying that the pathology report would come back favorable, specifically, that there were be NO ANAPLASIA, as this means the prognosis is worse. Also praying that Ella goes under and wakes up comfortably. She should have an epidural, and we are praying that it keeps her very numb over the incision after surgery. She will also have a foley catheter and a nasogastric tube, please pray that she tolerates these well. They will possibly also put in a port-a-cath for chemotherapy in her neck, please pray that there are no complications from this as well.
If all goes well tomorrow, she should be in the hospital for 7-10 days, then hopefully home for a few days, then, if all looks good, she may only have to come down here once per week for chemo for 14 weeks. I never thought I would consider 14 weeks of chemo to be a blessing, but here we are.
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Lifting all of you up in prayer! Praising God with you that the cancer has not spread and appears to be wilms. Will continue to pray for the surgery this morning... (((HUGS)))
I am praying for you guys right now.
How heart wrenching. I can't believe the joy I had last night reading your update on Bini (and Ella's funny responses to him) has been turned so instantly on it's head. It makes my head spin and stomach sick to imagine what you're going through.
We are praying for y'all.
Thanks for the info "through Steph's eyes." My heart aches for your family, but I praise God for your strong faith in our amazing Creator!
We have not stopped praying for you guys since the minute we heard. We love you and can't wait to see you as soon as we get back to Seattle. Love, Kristian and Bina
Psalm 139: 1-18
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
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