Kate Update

I already posted once today.. if you haven't read that post it's below. I had to get on and post this update on Kate McRae. PLEASE pray for healing for this little girl. It is very sad.. her parents are trying to be hopeful. Let's flood heavens doors with prayer for this family!

A word from Kate's Mom:

As I write this my heart is racing, hands shaking. We DO have a diagnosis. Yes, you read right, they just got finished giving us the type of Kate's tumor. Dr Kaplan came in and told us. I told him I needed to sit down, we needed to prepare ourselves. I really didn't think they would have one. So here it is.. she has a Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor. The culprit of my baby's hospitalization. It brings an eerie relief, mixed with anxiety. There is now a name to this awful disease. I will tell you what I know, which is not a whole lot and filtered through the ears of a mother, not a nurse. This is an extremely aggressive tumor and high risk because of it's location. (this is not the typical location for these types of tumors). However, these tumors are usually extremely sensitive to chemo and radiation (a prayer answered). So most likely (we have yet to meet with her oncologist) she will get high doses of chemo and radiation. However, because of it's location, we will most likely have to join a study. This means she would follow strict protocal for treatments. We are not sure what study she would enter yet, possibly one out of LA. This would most likely (we know nothing for sure yet) involve a bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant. So there it is. Many long days ahead. I asked if there was any idea how long we would be hospitalized, obviously it depends on many, many things. (treatment, how she responds, complications etc). However, we are pretty sure we will be here for months on end. He said it could get scary again. But we need to be hopeful. And we know the giver of hope. So please cry out to God on our daughters behalf. Ask for complete and total healing, whether that is through modern medicine or simply DIvine intervention. Please do not grow weary interceding for us. The battle has just begun. Fight for us. Fight for Kate. I will post more later as we are still processing this. And please do not send us research from the internet. We have an entire library here at the hospital. Just let us figure things out slowly as we can digest them. We need the Bible as our guidebook now. Will let you know more shortly.