Prayer needed for my friend!

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I have a friend that started nursing school with me on August 27th. Last week they found out she had a tumor in her chest growing in her left lung and around the greater vessels of her heart. It has grown from the size of a fist to a melon in 7 days! They got pathology back and it is AML leukemia. They took bone marrow too. She has 4 kids, her youngest is only 6. I am scared for her, she wants to be a nurse so badly and she has fought so hard to get this far in school, now we have to worry if she can come back and if she will still be around in a year. I have known her for 23 years and we were so excited to fulfill our lifelong dream together....I miss her so much. I can't even go see her because she is in ICU and I'm not family. Besides they are keeping her asleep after surgery to do a biopsy and place a chemo shunt, because of the pain. Please pray very hard for her, I want as many people in the world lifting her up as possible. Thanks!

that's great that you passed

and here's hoping for your friend

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I am an R.N. now. Used to be an LPN. I have also been a ministers wife for many yaers now. I believe in the Power of Prayer and have seen many mircles that could not be explained away. Your friend will need a mircle, and GOD is the only one I know that can preform them!! Remember HE can!! I am praying for her and you also. If she decides that at some point she is ready to go, help her to pass as comfortably as possible. Journal writing to her children about what her favorite color was, food, season and why etc... also what made them so special to her, etcc can be such a beautiful experience that would be there with them later, but I am praying for a mircle! She would make a wonderful nurse! Acts the Apostolic Church Temperanceville, VA 23442-LJ

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Good news! Kelli is home, her CBC indicates her counts are near normal, and she is in remission! The tumor in her lung is being considered by the Dr to be scar tissue now, it is smaller than a fist. She has to do 3 months of consolidation chemo, she goes back in this Friday for four days to start that process. She has put school on pause until next fall. The way our program is designed she can't take the classes we are in now again until then, but she is okay with it now because she knows it is still going to happen! I am so happy!!!:lol2::balloons: Thanks you all for your prayers, people the whole world over have been praying daily and it shows!

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i will be praying for your friend. continue to say bless and i pray that whatever god have for her will be to complete nursing school.

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God is a great GOD! He can do ALL things, we just have to believe. Kelli is blessed to have a friend like you who ask others to pray. Never underestimate the power of prayer! My family will keep her in our prayers and thoughts. This makes you thankful for your own health when you hear things like this. There are many sad things in the world, but we are overcomers! We serve a God who loves His children and wants whats best for us. I claim healing for your friend!

1,000 Blessings

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i will pray for your friend

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Specializes in LTC.

Kelli is in my prayers, Beth.

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Specializes in Oncology, Med-Surg, Nursery.

I will continue to pray for her, Beth. Thank you for keeping us updated and my prayers will also be with you. You're an awesome friend!! :)

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Well I have a couple of pieces of great news! First I passed my "critical that I pass to stay in Pharm and not be a year behind everyone else math test!":thankya: Whoo Hoo!!! Second, My Kelli does NOT have two cancers after all!:balloons: The tumor in her chest is a rare manifestation from her AML. Leukemia is not supposed to produce tumors, but one in a million it does. The positive side is it probably helped them catch the cancer earlier! Fatigue and loss of appetite could be chalked up to being a NS, but not pain and SOB, which is how they found the tumor! She told me today that she will have a bone marrow biopsy this weekend. If it is clear they will do another 7 day round of chemo and then monitor her. She may even get to go home! If it is not clear they will begin the process for a marrow transplant and start radiation w/ the chemo. This will keep her in the hospital until probably February 1st depending on finding donor marrow, plus the 30 days in germ free isolation to let the new marrow graft and start rebuilding her immune system. She is handling things pretty well, they shaved her head because clumps kept falling out in her face and it was annoying her, however,she is scared of the radiation.:o Pray for peace for her and that her biopsy will be clear so she won't need the radiation. Also pray that her chemo port will unclog so they can draw from it again she is getting stuck all over her poor arms!

Just to let you know my prayers are there for Kelli. I will pray the Rosary for her. God is an awsome God and we have to be faithful and just trust in His will.

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Specializes in ICU, SDU, OR, RR, Ortho, Hospice RN.
Well I have a couple of pieces of great news! First I passed my "critical that I pass to stay in Pharm and not be a year behind everyone else math test!":thankya: Whoo Hoo!!! Second, My Kelli does NOT have two cancers after all!:balloons: The tumor in her chest is a rare manifestation from her AML. Leukemia is not supposed to produce tumors, but one in a million it does. The positive side is it probably helped them catch the cancer earlier! Fatigue and loss of appetite could be chalked up to being a NS, but not pain and SOB, which is how they found the tumor! She told me today that she will have a bone marrow biopsy this weekend. If it is clear they will do another 7 day round of chemo and then monitor her. She may even get to go home! If it is not clear they will begin the process for a marrow transplant and start radiation w/ the chemo. This will keep her in the hospital until probably February 1st depending on finding donor marrow, plus the 30 days in germ free isolation to let the new marrow graft and start rebuilding her immune system. She is handling things pretty well, they shaved her head because clumps kept falling out in her face and it was annoying her, however,she is scared of the radiation.:o Pray for peace for her and that her biopsy will be clear so she won't need the radiation. Also pray that her chemo port will unclog so they can draw from it again she is getting stuck all over her poor arms!

May the Lord continue to strengthen you and bless you all.

Congrats on the Math test results too! You are allowed to be excited :)

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I am so sorry to hear this!! Please know that we will all be praying for her, her family, and you! Send her our best wishes!!

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I'm praying, now!!

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