Urgent Prayer Request for Malcolm

August 4, 2009

I received the following email this week from my step nephew’s mom, Julie with unexpected concerns on his MRI and Bone Scan following his chemo regimen. Please be in urgent prayer to our faithful God for Malcolm as he returns to the hospital for Pet Scan on Monday. Here is Julie’s email:

Hi Guys,

Malcolm’s scans came back, and they are not clean, there are two new areas of concern that had not been detected in previous scans. His tail bone was glowing in the bone scan, and the top of his femur and area around it turned up on the MRI. These are both areas that were within the region of the massive tumor he had. Orthopaedics thinks the top of the femur could just be necrosis, but onco is fearful it is cancer. The tail bone could be something in how he now postures and moves himself. Oncology is concerned because if it is the Ewing’s, it means it was able to grow despite the chemo, and they would have nothing in their arsenal to combat it. He had not had a scan since they stopped giving him the Doxorubicin four rounds ago, (the most toxic of the chemos—they had to stop because he had reached his life-time cap on the allowable limit to administer). We certainly pray that whatever they are finding on the scans is not cancer.

They have scheduled a PET scan for Monday to see if they can determine what kind of material they are looking at. If the scan is inconclusive, then they will biopsy those areas.

Please pass this information along to your prayer groups so they may pray for benign results.

Thank you!

Julie

Another updated email from Julie today:

Thank you for forwarding the feedback emails!

Please pass along to all prayer groups that the femur is clear—just necrosis. It is the tailbone that is a concern. There are two areas in the tail bone that light up on the CT and PET scans, and they cannot tell for certain what they are seeing yet. They are quite concerned.

So please have people pray that the tailbone is clear as Malcolm is a very intelligent and motivated young man, who can do a lot of good here on earth when he grows up!

Thanks so much,

Love , julie