After yesterday’s post, we are overwhelmed and humbled by the outpouring of love and support. Thank you, friends, for showing up for us time and time again 💜 Please believe me that we wouldn’t do any of this messy stuff if we could at all avoid it! 😅 It is fun for no one.
A few more things I can tell you about Bradys tumour are as follows.
The tumour can be found in Brady’s right temporal lobe. Right above his ear, we’re told.
It’s about 2cm in diameter. I want to say 2 cm squared, but its not a square, so that feels wrong. The size seems small, but when you look at it as almost an inch, and in his brain, not along his back, it feels larger.
It has not changed in the eight ish months we’ve known about it. Not even the chemical compounds that make it up have changed.
It is not behaving like a standard tumour. Every angle and every surface is exactly the same. No parks are thicker, thinner, more or less vascular, etc. So many unanswered questions we’re excited to have answered. Well. Excited is a strong word…
We named Bradys tumour Declan. But thats probably a story for another day.
That’s pretty much it for the little details. Shows just how much we don’t know about whats going on in there. But we will know soon.
Tomorrow Tumourrow is the starting point already. Brady will be admitted. He’ll begin fasting. He’ll have an MRS. Thats a fancy pants MRI that specifically zeros in on chemical compounds of masses. And he’ll start an infusion of a newer medication that claims to illuminate gliomas or other brain masses in a way that literally makes it glow under white surgical light!! This aids the surgeon in getting absolutely every last speck! Technology is so cool.
Unsurprisingly, I may throw a guest post up tomorrow. Cher lovingly wrote me a really cute one, and I’d like to be incredibly present tomorrow.
Meanwhile, please continue to carry us in prayer 💜 I know so many of you are already. The comfort in knowing I could call out for just about anything and know someone would come running brings huge peace to my heart. Meals start arriving on Friday, which is wild and SO appreciated. It is amazing to have so many willing, loving hearts around us. Thank you, all.
If Christ is for us, who can be against us?
Christ is FOR us!!! 💜 Thank you Lord!
Praying for you all today! Isaiah 41:13 says “For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.”