May 14th Addie Update

We had the MRI and CT today and have heard from the surgeons to see what her surgery will entail tomorrow!! They are doing a biopsy on her right side... Mid rib cage, they will do keyhole incisions to access the tumor and take a biopsy! The mass runs from her right lung to her spinal cord and actually enters her spinal canal but as of right now is not damaging her spinal cord! They will collapse her lung and take the biopsy, at that time they will do a "quick" test to determine if it is showing malignant markers (not a guarantee if that says it is malignant it is in fact malignant), depending on that, they will place a port in for future chemotherapy! They are also doing a bilateral bone marrow biopsy to see if there is any cancer in her marrow. The surgery will take anywhere between 3-4 hours and she will be in a fair amount of pain for about two days or so! The doctors seem to be leaning pretty heavily toward the diagnosis of a Neuroblastoma which has a wide range of presentation... From very aggressive and unfavorable to not that bad and a very favorable prognosis. The CT and MRI didn't show tumors anywhere else but the surgeon stated we would have to have additional imaging if it were a Neuroblastoma to see if it were elsewhere! But he said that not seeing any today on the scans was a good thing! We are very hopeful that our little spunky girl can get through it and live a very long cancer free life!! Please Continue to pray for her and we appreciate all of ur love and prayers!!!