A quick update to ask all you faithful prayer warriors to bend the Lord’s ear for our friends, the Morgans. I have written about this dear family before. Ryan was diagnosed with stage IV neuroblastoma a year or so before Patrick, and his mother, Missy, was kind enough to reach out to us when our battle started. Ryan relapsed 2 years ago, and his family was told this week that CHOA has run out of treatment options for him. Please pray that there is another option for him in Vermont, Memphis, Texas… anywhere! Missy is battling metastatic breast cancer while trying to care for Ryan and their other 2 children (she has an amazing husband as well). There is still a fight left, and I know that they will appreciate your prayers for strength, answers, and a cure!
On the Patrick front, his catecholamines were tested last week, and we learned last night that they are within the normal range. Catecholamines are the “fight-or-flight” hormones produced by the adrenal glands that can indicate neuroblastoma activity (among other things).
It is a VERY good thing for Patrick’s to be normal, and we pray for those normal results to continue for a long time. It looks like we will have MIBG and MRI scans in June, so you will be receiving “scanxiety” updates in the near future.
Sorry for the brevity of this update… I will leave a description of Patrick’s recent fishing trip for Stephen to post on another day. Please say a prayer for the Morgans, Ward Wright (a new member of our neuroblastoma family), Brennan, Cookie, Tara, Chloe, Wil, and all our buddies fighting cancer.
With hope (and a heavy heart),
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