Sept 28, 2020 Dear Family and
Friends,
I want to begin by saying thank you for
the outpouring of love and support you have given us since we entered Primary
Children's Hospital last Wednesday. We have felt the power of your love,
fasting and prayers strengthening us and comforting us. So many people have
reached out and done many, many acts of service. I can't even begin to list
these, but each one is deeply appreciated. Even if you feel like you can’t do
much, or what you’ve done is small, please know that all these “small” things
feel very big to us--texts, phone calls, e-mails…everything! We feel the
powerful cumulative effect of these many acts and we truly could not do this
without all of you! We love and
appreciate you all!
I will be posting updates on
Elizabeth as regularly as I can, hopefully daily. I’ll start with how this all
unfolded and then skip to how she is today. Here goes…
About 3 weeks ago Elizabeth started
having some lower back pain. Back pain isn’t unusual for her because of all she
does at horse vaulting, so we didn’t think much of it. It escalated to the
point that she decided to lay down last Tuesday and Wednesday to give her back
full rest. Wednesday around 3pm she started having some tingling in her toes
and when we got her to the pediatrician, he sent us right to Primary Children’s
Hospital in Salt Lake City because she was losing feeling and movement in her legs.
The MRI showed a tumor in her lower back. They removed the tumor Thursday
morning. We were grateful the surgery went well and Elizabeth did great! The
tumor was confirmed to be cancerous and Elizabeth is being treated for Ewing’s
Sarcoma. She’s started chemo yesterday.
Today she got her second chemo. She’s
been tolerating the chemo fairly well, so we’re thankful for that. She’s
working on getting movement and feeling back in her feet and legs and she’s
seeing good progress each day. The goal is to get her up and walking soon so
she can home from the hospital.
