Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Pray for Beth

Most of you know Beth, my best friend from 5th grade, and that she has been battling melanoma for about 5 years now. She had been doing several rounds of chemo recently, until they did a scan and found that some of her tumors had doubled in size very quickly. They stopped chemo and had decided to send her for a consultation for an extremely powerful drug that has many very harmful side effects (organ failure) but is sometimes worth the risk. This is to happen next week. In the mean time, she was home alone just taking a shower and fractured her arm in multiple places. Thank God she didn't pass out and was able to call her mom to come take her to the ER. They found that the cancer was in her bones and had eaten away parts of her arm. So today they are doing surgery to insert a steel rod in her arm and if all goes as planned she will be able to go home for the weekend before she heads to Loyola for her consultation next week. So please everyone keep Beth and her family in your thoughts and prayers. I will post any updates as I get them.

2 comments:

Kelly said...

Grandma Monie says to pray to St Peregrine. He is the saint for cancer patients. Everybody pray!

mckenna said...

I am so sorry to hear about Beth. She looked so good at her benefit last month. She will be in our thoughts and prayers.