Where to begin?????

Well as some of you already know I was diagnosed with Arnold-Chiari Malformation and a brain stem tumor in Feb of 2010. I had posterior fossa decompression surgery on May 6th 2010. Several months later I was told that the tumor on my brain stem was cancer. I was also told nothing could be done for me and I was given meds to help with pain and to ward off seizures. Then I was basically sent home to die.

I went home and was devastated at my news. Prayers were sent up EVERY WHERE FROM EVERYONE. Then we got a glimmer of hope when my oldest daughter heard on a St. Judes was doing treatments on children with brain stem tumors that were cancerous. I contacted my dr and they contacted St. Jude and the wheels started turning to get the treatment for me.

I went it for the new MRI of my tumor and to get my first appointment arranged with the ongology department of Vanderbilt. . The MRI shown that the tumor was completely gone! I was amazed to say the least. My daughter and I started calling everyone we knew to share the news and it spread like wild fire. Oh what a miracle God had provided.

I got home that night and made a video for my Facebook friends that had been so loyal in praying for me. I scanned one of my old MRIs and the new one that I had gotten that day saying the tumor was gone! I was so happy to show them what they had help to accomplish.

The disease of chiari and the tumor has taken me down in every way a woman can be taken down. I had to stop working so finacially its about as bad as it can get. Mentally they have taken a toll on me to the point that all I did for quite some time was cry because the thought of leaving my family was killing me. Physically Im a mess now. My body is weak and I feel so tired all the time. I look like Ive aged 10yrs in the last year.

I have been given such a miracle and I intend on thanking my God for it every day for it. I am going to fight to come back physically with all that I have. I know that I am lucky to have even made it through the brain surgery and to get a healing from God like this is just amazing!

I still have chiari and there is no cure for it. I do exspect to have surgery again in the future for that BUT I know through God all things are possible! You never know, in 6 months when I go back for my next MRI it might show that I have grew new skull in the back of my head and my brain may be lifted back where it should be. GOD IS A GOOD GOD!