Tyler Update

This comes from an old family friend... please keep them in your prayer, if you have not followed these posts, T-man is a 13 year old boy recently diagnosised with stage 4 cancer.

Praying friends and family,

This is the first chance in several days that we have been home to sleep and catch up on emails and phone messages. We are so full of emotions as we receive emails , calls, and cards from everyone praying for T and our family. God’s family, through prayer, is what is holding us together. We cry almost every email we get and phone call we receive as we are realizing how much people care and what God is doing in this situation. We have received many offers for help from a variety of people to help us through this time in our lives. Throughout this long process we will be asking for help from you. Through the surgery and past few days we have been taken care of and it has been a great blessing and testimony for Christ.

I am going to give you an update and clear up some details and then head back to the hospital. T was admitted Thursday for an out-patient biopsy and to insert a port-a-cath in his chest for future treatments. There were a few complications with the Biopsy, so T has been in the hospital since. I am going to spare some of the details of what has happened, to protect T, because he is unaware of some of the details of the past few days. He has had some tough times and stressing moments but he is heading back in the right direction now. We hope he will go home by Sunday but he has to be able to walk, eat, drink, and do a few other things before they will let him go.

We also met with the doctors on Thursday for a while about his cancer and his treatment. What I will say is that the cancer is a stage 4 and is extremely serious and time is crucial. The tumor in his gland has grown measurably in a week and is a huge concern. The cancer has spread to his lungs and is severe. The biopsy result (we hope to have Monday) will confirm the current treatment plan which is chemotherapy for two cycles to shrink everything. They cannot operate until everything is smaller. The cycle consists of 1 week in the hospital receiving treatment and then two weeks home taking medicine. This medicine is very potent and has many side effects but it is our only course of action at this point. Cycle two is the same as cycle 1. After cycle 2 they will re-scan and check sizes and hopefully operate. If the tumor doesn’t not shrink they will continue cycles until it does.

This is what I am able to share at this point but the details are very scary and T does not need to carry that burden. We KNOW God is in control and is with us all but the pain and emotion is extremely heavy at this time. Please pray for strength, endurance, healing, and A MIRACLE!