PRAY FOR DANIELLE!

On Monday morning, Labor Day, I got a text from one of Calli's coaches at the gym. It instructed us to come out and surprise Danielle if we were free that afternoon. You've heard of Danielle before and she's been on our prayer list for the past 18 months. Danielle finished chemo in July and in August they found more cancer. The prognosis is not good. Here's what her mom said in the post on her carepages on August 27th.

We met with the doctor yeserday to go over the diagnosis for Danielle. The doctor said this is rare to see the cancer tumor cells come back so quickly after the radiation and high dose checmo. The cancer cells are highly resistant to the drugs they have given Danielle. The Protocol she was on has an 80% cure rate and Danielle is in the 20% group that was not cured from the disease. The cancer cells were very obvious to the pathologist and the Hemotologist doctors at TCH. There are no drugs that they know of that will cure Danielle. They offered us a Phase 1 Clinical trial that has not been given to children before or a known chemo that they hope will slow the growth of the tumor cells. The Clinical trial has been given to adults and studied in the lab but they have no data to give us on the cure rate possibilities. If we choose this treatment it will be given to Danielle in pill form for 13 months. She will be able to go to school with minimal side effects. WE only have a week to make the decision on this clinical trial.

We are on our knees in prayer asking God's widsom and healing for our precious daughter. Danielle's doctor thinks we should go ahead and plan our make awish trip and take it now while Danielle is feeling good.

I know our God can heal her body should he choose but to watch this family bear this burden and plea along side them to God to please let this child live another day is really humbling. Oh how I long to see her go through her teenage years, to graduate from High School and to live life to the fullest. Oh how I pray she has many, many, many more days of laughter with her friends and family cutting up like all 12 year olds do. These are the times in life when you say "Why God?" yet I know, and so do they, that He has perfectly scripted this for Danielle and He holds the outcome in his hands and whatever that may be....it's good. And as I write this through tears, I rest in that fact. I know HE CAN heal her...will you pray that with me and Calli?

So Saturday they leave for Disneyworld for Danielle's Make A Wish trip. One of the mom's at the gym organized a special day for Danielle and her closest friends. She arranged for a limo to pick her up and escort her to a restaraunt in The Woodlands where as many from our gym that could make it came out to show her our love. I was glad I could wear my sunglasses because I was fighting back the tears. Calli and Carson followed her into the restaraunt and got to visit with her some. There's a little closer bond with them because Danielle is from Willis and we all cheered together before we even came to this gym. Channel 13 was there to interview her and highlight her life and as they put it...the fight of her life.

So if you have a little room on your prayer list could you pray for Danielle?  She now has a Doctors appointment with MD Anderson on September 20th...we will anxiously await.