St. John's Group Email prayer request from Don Nolte

 

Jonas Borchert, my grandson from Kansas City, is in the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City with a rare cancerous tumor of the brain.  This cancer's name is ewing sarcoma.

.  What is even more rare is that it has attack the brain rather than the bone which is its usual way of attacking the body.  You can read more about this cancer by typing it's name and pressing search on the    computer.  It attacks mainly adolescent boys.   Jonas is in a lot of pain with headaches and in his left cheek area where the tumor is located.  He is hooked up to an i v which has a drip of morphine to kill the pain and help him sleep.  He is to have a full body scan today and a chest x-ray to make sure that the brain is the only place this cancer is attacking.  They had to put a pain patch on his cheek and reduce the amout of morphine because he was beginning to have labored breathing. To much morphine can stop you breathing altogether.  He will be starting Chemo this week to shrink the tumor so they can do surgery to remove it. This surgery will involve reconstructive facial parts.  He will have a surgeon from Texas who has experience with this kind of tumor.  They,at this hospital, which is a cancer facility,  have never had a ewing sarcoma patient.

This will be a very difficult and painful procedure for Jonas and his family.  Keep them in your prayers.

Don