Good morning everyone - I have a HUGE prayer request and I will do my best to try and update as I know more details - but please join me in prayer!
***Update #5
Carter has been transferred to Cardinal Glenn Children's Hospital in St. Louis. He has a 5.5 cm tumor which takes up roughly half his chest cavity. They are unsure what type of tumor this is and will do more testing to decide what exactly they are dealing with and will decide when to do surgery. Please continue to keep their family in your prayers. They have started a blog here if you want to check it out.
They are on their way to St. John's in Springfield right now for the CAT scan - praise the Lord - Evan does not have strep, praise the Lord. Now if we can just get Carter's results today that will be AWESOME!
***Update #1
The anesthesiologist is not comfortable sedating Carter so they are not doing the CAT scan at Bolivar - the Dr and Gina & Mike are very upset, understandably, and they are trying to get into St. John's to get it done later today.
Can't feed him until they know if he'll have the scan (fussy baby)
Nerves are offically shot
Big Bro Evan may have strep and is on the way to the dr
Satan is attacking strong, please pray that everything works out and they not only get the scan today, but answers. A weekend is a long time to wait for the unknown!
Original post:
My friend Gina's little boy, Carter (11mo) , was admitted to the Bolivar hospital yesterday for pneumonia and is awaiting tests for a mass they saw when doing the chest x-ray.
His oxygen levels have been very good and they have only had to give him oxygen two times which is awesome. They said this morning that his lungs are sounded almost completely clear which is a blessing and this means the pneumonia is really not an issue anymore -yeah!
He will go in for a CAT scan this morning. His blood counts look great, nothing out of the ordinary, so they are not thinking cancer, but it is still a possibility. It could be a cyst, tumor or who knows what - just pray that its something simple and easy and fixable.
***Update #4
Carter has had the CAT scan (finally) and is in recovery and they are getting ready to wake him up. Gina & Mike are to meet with the dr as soon as they can get back into town and they told them to leave the boys with someone and come in by themselves. Obviously this is freaking them out a little bit (ok a lot), but I think the dr really just wants to be able to discuss the options and have their full attention. Please pray for their nerves, this is very stressful!
***Update #3
St. John's is also refusing to do the CAT scan, they are nervous about sedating them. They are nervous about the mass, but without the test they can't tell what's wrong for sure if anything.
They are on their way to St. John's in Springfield right now for the CAT scan - praise the Lord - Evan does not have strep, praise the Lord. Now if we can just get Carter's results today that will be AWESOME!
***Update #1
The anesthesiologist is not comfortable sedating Carter so they are not doing the CAT scan at Bolivar - the Dr and Gina & Mike are very upset, understandably, and they are trying to get into St. John's to get it done later today.
Can't feed him until they know if he'll have the scan (fussy baby)
Nerves are offically shot
Big Bro Evan may have strep and is on the way to the dr
Satan is attacking strong, please pray that everything works out and they not only get the scan today, but answers. A weekend is a long time to wait for the unknown!
Original post:
My friend Gina's little boy, Carter (11mo) , was admitted to the Bolivar hospital yesterday for pneumonia and is awaiting tests for a mass they saw when doing the chest x-ray.
His oxygen levels have been very good and they have only had to give him oxygen two times which is awesome. They said this morning that his lungs are sounded almost completely clear which is a blessing and this means the pneumonia is really not an issue anymore -yeah!
He will go in for a CAT scan this morning. His blood counts look great, nothing out of the ordinary, so they are not thinking cancer, but it is still a possibility. It could be a cyst, tumor or who knows what - just pray that its something simple and easy and fixable.
Please pray that Carter to do well with the procedure and the anesthesia. Please pray for Gina and Mike as its hard to see your little one and deal with the unknown. Please pray for big bro Evan who is home sick too.
This is from last month - but isn't he a cutie!
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ohhhh this little guy is in my prayers...
~simply stork~
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