Posted on 02/11/2010 10:38:19 PM PST by Joya
CURRENTLY via FReepmail from LibertyRocks 02/11/2010, late Thursday
It was a rough day. We are right now at Children’s Hospital, we came in this afternoon at 2:30 and by 5:00 she was admitted as a patient.
We are in our own private room in the oncology ward - not because she is sick, or because they are thinking it’s definitely cancer (still on the table though), it’s because there are so many kids sick with the flu and H1N1 in the other part of the Peds wing. It’s nice because they are very private rooms, and very comfortable and “homey”.
= = = BACKGROUND via FReepmail from LibertyRocks 02/07/2010 [Superbowl Sunday]
Dear FRiends,
I took my daughter Amanda (13 yo) to the doctor last night [Feb. 6]. She had been complaining of a sore calf for the last 2 weeks. I (we) assumed it was a pulled muscle, and told her to take it easy - she was still walking around and wasn’t limping, but we didn’t notice she was walking on her tiptoes on that leg (long pants...). Yesterday, she came to me and said, “Mom it’s starting to hurt REALLY bad, and there’s a lump....” Turns out there was a lump there, and it’s been getting bigger over the last week or so (at this point it’s slightly oval and at least 2 in. in diameter!). At the doctor’s office we were able to get her in to get an ultrasound before the techs left for the weekend. I saw the ultrasound, but don’t know what I was really looking at - it seemed the mass was pushing out in between her calf muscles so its origin was deep - like next to the bone itself. After the ultrasound my daughter got nervous and confessed there is a lump on her hip that’s been there for some time (a few months???) - it’s much smaller, but it’s there.
[WHY don’t children tell their parents these things? I can’t tell you how frustrating this is now.]
Anyway, the doctor ruled out infection, and a blood clot, and they mostly ruled out a pulled / torn muscle (it would hurt WORSE on her toes if it were the muscle), but they can’t give us a diagnosis at this point at all. They are scheduling her for an MRI (of her leg & hip) first thing [February 8], we need to schedule an appointment with our reg. doctor ASAP for a referral to an Orthopedic Surgeon. If the MRI doesn’t give us more of an answer she will need a biopsy.
Please just pray for Jesus to heal my baby!
We’ve ruled out the “easy” stuff, and there is no history of trauma to the area either! This leaves a few VERY scary diseases - two that are cancers that primarily affect children her age. Combine that with the fact that her doctor’s are flying “half-blind” with only familial medical history of her father (I’m adopted), and it necessitates they treat this as if it’s a cancerous growth until they rule that out.
My daughter is normally a nervous person (like her mom), so please also pray for her to have strength, and not to worry. I’m trying VERY hard to be brave and strong for her, I’m praying with every other breath at this point.
Thanks to everyone for their prayers over our family. I know so many others are going through their own problems. Please know, you all remain in my thoughts and daily prayers.
God Bless all of you, LR
Prayers for healing and strength.
Prayers for LibertyRocks and her Mandy.
Oh, but Father,
We have just One Divine Parent, Who knows every hair on our heads and every cell in our bodies!
As You have promised, the Holy Spirit surrounds this family, listening intently for the heart stirrings of faith. To those who believe, no miracle is beyond reach!
Surround Amanda with Divine Healing, we pray in the name of Jesus Christ! Inform her medical team of her every need. Astonish them with your miraculous healing power, Father God, we pray in faith!
May Amanda's family speak only love, faith and words of Divine power, to her and to her medical caregivers, through the prompting of the Holy Spirit. May their every thought be uplifting and confident in Your eternal love and mercy, Father!
May every family member witness her healing and surrender completely to the gift of salvation by Your Son on the cross, Almighty Father!
To You, the Three-In-One, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we lift our prayers for Amanda.
Amen!
Adding my Prayers with the rest. May God Bless Mandy with full healing.
Prayers up for this girl, and her family.
Thank you for the alert Joya. Prayers for LR’s daughter Amanda.
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Prayers up. Hoping for some good news soon.
Keeping Amanda and her family in my prayers that this turns out to be nothing serious and that her loved ones find comfort for their worries.
Prayers for LibertyRocks and all the family. God keep you and help lil’ LibertyRocks. In Jesus’ name.
Amen
I am joined in urgent prayer for Amanda!
Prayers continue for Mandy and LibertyRocks and family. Of course we pray for the medical staff as well.
Thank you Joya for this thread and keeping us updated.
HUGS to all of you and all the prayers warriors on this thread.
Thanks Joya!
Amanda and Liberty Rocks will be in my Prayers...
May GOD’s Holy Grace, Peace and Healing be with them....
TaraP
UPDATE: ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL YESTERDAY
I haven’t had time to read through the thread yet, so I don’t know if this has been stated.
They admitted Amanda to St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital yesterday afternoon. They did a Doppler Ultrasound last night. They are trying to get her films sent from Wausau to here, but if they can’t get them by noon they will be repeating the MRIs of her calf and her pelvis.
She is doing well all things considered. Some of the fluid retention is abating due to being stuck in bed for the last half-day.
We’ve got a TON of doctors all working together with her from Pediatricians/Adolescent specialists, to hematologists, to Orthopedic specialists, etc... etc...
Whatever it is we will find out not only what it is, but how/why this happened. I will try to update this thread.
Thank you SO MUCH for everyone’s prayers and concern. You all mean so much to me! Gotta run as we’ve got to order lunch and get her ready for her MRIs if they haven’t gotten those films.
God bless all of you & yours,
Michelle
Thank you for the update, Joya.
Prayers continue for all to be well for LR’s daughter, and the family. God bless and guide those tending her health.
What a terrible thing for Mandy and the rest of you to suffer—yet thank God she has such a loving family and their faith to lift her up! I cannot imagine what you are all going through, but know you have many people praying for Mandy and that she sounds as though she is in excellent hands.
God bless.
Prayers up for Mandy and her family.
Amanda and her family are in my prayers,Fatima
Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
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