Anna's tumor has reccurred
We have had an exhausting week. We went to Birmingham, Dec. 8th for an end of treatment follow-up MRI and ended up having Anna admitted for surgery. Her tumor had come back and was putting pressure along the spinal cord. They took her into surgery as soon as possible to remove the pressure on her spine. She was in ICU for 48 hours following surgery and then moved to the regular oncology floor to begin a new round of chemo. She received chemo for 5 days and we were released to come home the following Friday. She is recovering from surgery like a champ. As well as enduring a different course of chemotherapy. We will remain at home through the holidays and return for her next chemo in January. After which her doctors have scheduled a CT Scan to study the tumors response to the new drugs and will then determine the next step of her treatment.
Please keep our family and Anna's team of doctors in your prayers.
We want to wish you all a blessed Christmas and Happy New Year! We send you all our love! Thomas, Lorra, Anna and Drew (soon to be officially a Casson!)
posted by Anna's Page @ 6:34 PM
7 Comments:
We are praying for you! Our whole church is! Much love, prayer and concern, Deb and Darrel Couch
Highland Park UMC
Thomas and Lorra, this is Jim Walters, your cousin. I've sent word to all of my prayer circles and friends. There are a lot of people and a lot of churches praying for Anna and for y'all.
I am a member of Misty's church in Mobile and want you to know that I am praying for all of you. Stay strong and know that Anna has touched us all. I look forward to good news on the next post.
Ashley Hayden
Mobile, Al
Hi Anna Grace! Annabelle and I enjoyed visiting with you at UAB. We hope to see you again soon.
I will keep you and your family in my prayers.
Ms. Janet and Annabelle
Wanted you to know we are praying for all of you.
Cassia Glass
Taipei, Taiwan
Dear little Anna (and Drew, Lorra and Thomas),
My current and former church prayer warriors have you in their hearts and prayers.
And what a gorgeous smile, you have! Here are some hugs- and a kiss for your sweet, beautiful, bald head. xox
Big Anna, Uncle Jim's sister
A precious child left our family this week. While little Anna was here for such a short time, she blessed all who knew her, loved her, treated her illness or who only read of her boundless spirit, renewable energy and excitement about life through her mother’s journaling her story. Her infectious smile, beautiful bald head and sparkling eyes reflected the love her parents wrapped her in.
When I was an innocent child, full of happiness and curiosity about life my imagination soared. I believed in magic and that anything was possible, if you wished for it hard enough.
Years later, I believed that God was magic and that anything I prayed for would come true, if I had been good enough.
Much later, I came to know Jesus and His love. I learned, ever so slowly, that even though His love is unconditional and everlasting, His answers to my prayers were not always the answers I wanted. I did not understand how this could be? Had I not prayed hard enough, or been deserving enough? How could He let someone so loved, be taken from me?
When tragedy entered my life I did not know how I would survive. Today I have the realization that my life is better, and that I have a purpose here beyond that one event in my life.
Each day I realize that God not only loves me, but that he watches over me. He blessed me with children. He made my heart like His, so that I could understand His love for us.
There is no emotion felt more intently than the love of a parent for his child. I learned that as a parent, but I didn’t understand the depth of that love until I confided my parenting woes to my dad. When I naively asked, “When do you ever stop worrying about your children?,” His response- “How old are you?,”He made me realize that "everlasting love" is the second part of perfect love,
I believe in the promises God has made. I live in faith that upon my death, I will be reunited with those I loved. However long or brief the time was we had together, I know that my joy in that moment will erase all pain of separation that I felt here on earth.
Our sorrow over little Anna’s death is only temporary. Until the day she greets us in heaven, I pray that promise will sustain all of us who do believe.
In His love,
another Anna
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