Prayers most definitely up!!
Praying for healing in Jesus’ Name, and for peace that transcends all understanding.
I join in urgent prayer for your wife!
Prayers for you and your wife Kris
Prayers for a good outcome & recovery.
Prayers for your wife’s successful surgery and restoration to complete health.
Your wife and you are in our morning prayers.
8mm
Sending my sympathy to your wife and family, and my prayers to the Great Physician for your wife's healing.
Prayers sent!
Joining in prayer.
Prayers from Texas.
More thanks than I can say for all your prayers.
Some of you asked for an update. Please pardon my lack of medical knowledge. My wife was taken by ambulance to the hospital after a seizure at home. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor. They said they think it’s the same kind that Ted Kennedy had but they can’t be 100% sure of that. They’ll know more after surgery.
She will have surgery to remove the tumor at the end of this week.
She was in the hospital for three days but is home now, mostly on bed rest.
Some of the bed rest is because of her illness but some is necessitated by the medication she is required to take. It drains her.
She will require some post operative physical/ocupational therapy in the short term so that she can have the best quality of life possible. The chances of there being a long term are slim according to the doctors, but we won’t know for certain till after the operation. That the chances are slim does not cause us to give up hope and we continue to pray.
Again, thanks to all of you and to anyone I may have missed when addressing this.
Prayers for your wife and your family sir..........
Continued PRayers for your wife and for you also.
God Bless you both.
This is another update because some of you asked for an update before. My wife had brain surgery 15 Aug. She came home 3 Sep. She spent a week in an acute care hospital and then two weeks in a separate rehabilitation center which is also a hospital. (My understanding is that according to the practices of 20-30 years ago she would have spent three weeks in the same hospital in which the surgery was done, but medical practices have changed due to the pressures of business plans and insurance companies.)
The doctors say she had a Glioblastoma Grade 4. I understand that's the worst type of cancerous brain tumor. The surgeon said he was able to remove all of the malignant tumor.
She came out of surgery with some impairment of the right arm and leg, and some speech impairment.
She had therapy for all of that at the rehabilitation center and will continue therapy on an outpatient basis. Her arm and leg have improved, but she needs a wheelchair to get around for now, although I expect her to be out of it before too long.
She will start radiology and chemo therapy soon. That's important in order to kill any remaining cancerous cells so that they do not grow into a new tumor. That too frequently happens in cases like this. Apparently, even though the surgeon removed all the malignant tumor, it is not possible to assuredly remove every cancerous cell that might be floating around in the brain. Such cells could form the seed of a new tumor.
I probably won't update this thread again. Significant improvement may take awhile.
My wife isn't out of the woods yet, though they aren't as thick as they were, and she still needs all the prayers that can be offered. Once more, thanks to all of you and to anyone I may have missed when addressing this.
KrisKrinkle
I am so sorry. I will pray for you and your precious wife as you fight this battle.
God bless both of you and your Drs.
My sister, unfortunately, had this.
Prayers & best wishes.
Prayers lifted for your wife and family.
Again, more thanks than I can say for all your prayers.
I wrote in Post 131 that my wife had a Glioblastoma Grade 4 brain tumor; that the surgeon said he was able to remove all of the malignant tumor; and that she would soon start radiology and chemo therapy.
She completed the radiology and after a wait for side effects to subside, had a post radiology MRI that will serve as a baseline for future MRIs.
This MRI showed no new cancerous growth, but there is one spot that concerns the doctors. They said this spot showed up in an MRI immediately after surgery and that it is unchanged since then, but still it concerns them. They did not say it was malignant. All I can say is "time will tell".
My wife will have MRIs periodically and will have chemotherapy several days a month for a while.
She still doesn't have good use of her right side, still has periods of weakness, and still needs a wheelchair, but she is much improved.
Thanks to all of you for your prayers (please continue) and thanks to God for all of you.
KrisKrinkle