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(Message started by: Elaine on Oct 8^th, 2002, 11:27am)

Title: Thank you from Garrett and family !
Post by Elaine on Oct 8^th, 2002, 11:27am

E.M. (Ted) Dannemiller, Keith Minie, Cathy Lind, Catherine Pierce, Elizabeth Goodman. David Schneider, Simeon Cessna, Charles Gnau, Marc Bobula, and Kristi West, Jackie !!

Garrett Mother and Father said Thank you! He had his MRI today and as always he stayed still :-) ! He is A amazing little boy!

I also what to say Thank you guys !

Title: Re: Thank you from Garrett and family !
Post by Elaine on Oct 15^th, 2002, 4:05pm

Garrett was on chanel 10 news last night and this morning in Idaho ! His web page was on there. I got a update one him he is showing progress.
here is the Email I got today from his mom.

Hi Johnnie!
We actually got some great news yesterday! At first, our doctor thought Garrett's tumor was growing when he looked at the MRI.
There is a cyst that is growing on the tumor, and it showed that this cyst had shrunk in the MRI. However, the doctors thought that the tumor had
engulfed the cyst. They wanted to get a PET scan to make sure. When they got the
PET scan they found out that 90% of his tumor has been killed. Isn't that wonderful! What had happened is that there was another part of the tumor
that had always been there, behind the cyst, but since the cyst had shrunk, that part of the tumor was now revealed. So it wasn't growing. The PET
scan showed that only about 10% of the tumor is still actively growing.
The doctors could not believe it. He said this was amazing, and he has never seen anything like it. When I told the Dr two months ago that my insurance
would consider covering a portion of the treatment if they could kill 50-60%
of the tumorin the first two months, he said that it was ridiculous, and that was unheard of. Never in a million years did anyone expect this.
Who knows if it is only a temporary thing, but it is a great "temporary"
thing, and Garrett has good quality of life right now. He is walking now, kind of unbalanced, but he is walking. He has also regained his hearing, and the
facial paralysis is disappearing. We can only pray that this progress continues. =) I believe that it is a miracle, keep praying.

Kelly

Just want all that helped to know what is going on. I wanted to thank each of you again.

Title: Re: Thank you from Garrett and family !
Post by Mastifflvr28 on Oct 15^th, 2002, 10:48pm

Excellent news E. Thanks for being Garrett's Angel.

http://www.lastingangels.com/garrett.htm

Mast