Thanksgiving Day Update on Sofia

Dear Friends and Family of Dearest Sweetest Sofia:

This is Sofia's God Mama writing this post for Sofia. We are grateful to God that she came through the surgery very well. The surgery took about 4 1/2 hours. They were able to take most of the tumor out without causing any injury to her brain. They also placed a shunt in to drain the fluid off of her brain. The Doctor stated that more likely than not they will go in and make the shunt permanent. Which means another overnight operation. This will not be done until later.

The area I would like to ask all of you to cover Sofia in is prayer. The tumour was not benign. At this point the pathology report will not come back until sometime on Monday. The tumor was not what the Doctors believed it to be. It came as a complete surprise to them. A year ago the whole Nero team had looked at her MRI's and all concurred at that time that it was a benign tumour. They did not even expect it to grow. During the last year it did grow and that was initially why we presented here for this operation because Sofia needed a follow-up and because Sofia was having bad headaches.

The Doctor believes it may be Medulloblastoma which is only ever found in the brain and then usually only in small children or it may be some type of lymphoma which can appear anywhere in the body.

Sofia has been made aware of the situation. At this time we will proceed as we originally planned and Sofia will be in the hospital until sometime next week. I think she will be in ICU until Monday because they usually do not move patients who have drains in their brains down to the floor until later. This may change and I will keep you posted.

Sofia has already stood up and moved around which is wonderful. She is quickly regaining her strength. The main issue is that they had to cut the main muscles in her neck and they must heal. This makes her neck lack strength, like a newborn, it is difficult for her to pick up her head.

I would ask that all remember Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it, the world and they who dwell in it. So we say over Sofia- you are the Lord's and we cast down the enemy of the Lord, commanding this tumor to be healed in the Name of Jesus.