A prayer request came in this eveing for Katie of TeamBettendorf and her daughter Jillian.
Jillian is 4 years old. She was taken in Thurs morning for what they though was an enlarged spleen. She was found to have a football size tumor in her chest, that is squishing her heart on one side and filling her left lung completely with fluid.
A biopsy was done on Friday, and chemo is supposed to start on Tuesday. Jillian will be an inpatient for one month, then she will be on in/out patient chemo for 9 months to 3 yrs.
Jillian's heart is very weak and they don't know if she can survive long enough for the Dr.'s to shrink the tumor enough to remove it.
Please keep this family of 11 in your prayers!"
UPDATE - Jillian is now intubated and sedated and has received her first round of chemotherapy. There is a preliminary diagnosis of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma.
There is much hope now, as her heart has moved over to the center again. A catheter and ventilator are helping her lungs clear and has reduced the size of the tumor enough to stop 'smooshing' her heart.
Tia Linschied
Senior Editor of HSB
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I prayed for Jillian and will continue to do so daily. Praying for the family as well.
Kate
Praying for Jillian!
5:00 PM, Feb. 11, 2007, posted by
tbrowne
We will add Jillian and her family to our prayers.
Terrill
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We'll include her and the family in our prayers.
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Oh Lord, we weep with this news, sickness is something we will never understand here on earth, especially when it preys upon the littlest ones... Messiah...we ask that you pour your annointed healing upon little Jillian... Father give the family a peace, unkown before, a peace that you are with them, holding them, comforting them during this time of earthly uncertainty. Let this be a time that gloirifies you, Father...let your Holy Healing Hands permeate the doctors, nurses and all other caretakers who lay their hands upon Jillian... Give them wisdom, Jehovah... I turned and opened your word and it landed on Mark 16:15-18 ending with this verse..."They shall lay their hands on sick people, and they will get well." Thank You Lord, for all you promise us!
