Many years ago when Shaelynn's dad was 4 years old, I was a helper in his S.S. class. Recently a friend told me about what was going on with his family. Please pray for the Kelly family...here is why:
Here is some background on Shaelynn (cut and pasted from her hospital Carepages): My name is Shaelynn Kelly. Birthdate: 11/02/2005. My Story: Fell on February 15, 2007 hitting the back of my head. Taken to the ER where a brain tumor was found by doing a CT scan. I was then airlifted to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics with my mom where I stayed for about 15 days straight. There I had a biopsy of my brain tumor on February 19, 2007 where it was found that I have metastatic brain cancer and three tumors on my spine. I have been undergoing chemotherapy since that time. I had the entire brain tumor removed on September 06, 2007 by Dr. Greenlee at UIHC.
She has had a lot of hospital visits with chemotherapy trying to fight this battle. Today this is the update:
January 24, 2008 at 04:53 PM CST
We finally heard results of the MRI and they are not what we wanted to hear. Shaelynn's cancer has spread even more since her last MRI in December. Dr. Vibhakar came to talk to us this morning with nurse, Mary, and said there is basically two options: radiation which would would only give a 20% chance of working and would do Shaelynn more harm than good and the other option is to do an oral chemotherapy that I will give as a liquid form at home which will slow the cancer down a bit and talk to hospice, take Shaelynn home and give her quality of life instead of quantity. He said that sometimes this type of cancer Shaelynn has will slow down it's growth for a while and then pick back up so we could revisit with him if two months down the road nothing has changed with Shaelynn and we could then go from there. The spreading of the cancer is what most likely caused her eye seizures and is causing her other seizures also as it is cutting off the nerve flow or something like that. Sam (mom), Drew (dad), Shaelynn, and Killian (2 months)
We finally heard results of the MRI and they are not what we wanted to hear. Shaelynn's cancer has spread even more since her last MRI in December. Dr. Vibhakar came to talk to us this morning with nurse, Mary, and said there is basically two options: radiation which would would only give a 20% chance of working and would do Shaelynn more harm than good and the other option is to do an oral chemotherapy that I will give as a liquid form at home which will slow the cancer down a bit and talk to hospice, take Shaelynn home and give her quality of life instead of quantity. He said that sometimes this type of cancer Shaelynn has will slow down it's growth for a while and then pick back up so we could revisit with him if two months down the road nothing has changed with Shaelynn and we could then go from there. The spreading of the cancer is what most likely caused her eye seizures and is causing her other seizures also as it is cutting off the nerve flow or something like that. Sam (mom), Drew (dad), Shaelynn, and Killian (2 months)
Please keep this family in prayer as they are facing evey parent's worst fear.
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