Leah Update - MRI results

Please keep this baby and her family in prayer! This is good news, and I hope that the next one will be even better! She has a repeat MRI in six weeks.
More about her progress is found here and here .

God bless!

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From: Grace
Date: Jan 9, 2008 5:47 PM

Looks like prayers of thanksgiving but also continued prayers until this is all over.

God Bless!

Grace

Subject: Leah Update - MRI results


Hello all -

We were discharged from the hospital Monday night and we returned home this morning. It is so nice to be home! Before leaving, we got the final MRI results. The surgeons were really happy with the surgery - they were able to get 80% of the growth, they didn't do any damage to the dura, and they preserved all the nerves. They really did an amazing job. Because everything was extracranial, it was not considered a brain surgery, which made the entire process "easier" despite the very difficult resection. The pathology was returned and confirmed that it is a Giant Cell reparative granuloma . . not a tumor, which is all good news.

I am thankful for all the prayers and the surgeon's wonderful work, but I do not think I will rest easy or feel any peace until I know this entire mass is gone. The parts that were left behind were deep down in the inner ear and still up against the dura. We still have a long road ahead of us . . . more MRIs (where Leah has to go for hours without food) and more blood work. In six weeks, we will have a follow up MRI to determine what the growth is doing. They are "optimistic" that since they have surgically damaged the growth and have cut off over 75% of its blood supply that it will die off on its own. That is of course what I will be praying for over the next six weeks (and trying to keep what is left of my sanity). Depending on the MRI results, we may be looking at more surgery (not a good option) or going back to steriod treatments. Thank you for your continued prayers.

God Bless!
Tara and (a very cranky) Leah