The Ewing Adventures: Ready for the game!!!

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Ready for the game!!!

Well, to say Spencer is ready for the game is an understatement! When my eyes popped open this morning, Spencer was already bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to get going. I barely had time to fill up on espresso before pre-game preparations were made....shower, feeding through his new button and finally, the Razorback attire.

This is the shirt that all his friends signed and brought to him yesterday. He loves it!

I have my new Razorback shirt and Razorback earrings and the best part? The shirt is bedazzled!!! Love it!!!!

GO HOGS GO!!!!

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Spencer's Story

In November 1999, when Spencer was three years old, he began experiencing headaches, vomiting and left sided paralysis. An MRI revealed a very large brain stem tumor that stretched from the bottom of his ponds down to C4 in his spinal cord. We flew to Beth Israel hospital in New York City where Dr. Fred Epstein performed the first of two resections (tumor removal). After the first surgery, Spencer woke up and was paralyzed from the neck down; he could blink once for yes and twice for no. The doctors placed a trach so that he could be placed on a ventilator, and a feeding tube in his stomach. After six weeks at Beth Israel, Spencer was transferred to Arkansas Children's Hospital for three months of rehabilitation.

After another tumor resection in June of 2000, two years of weekly chemo treatments and seven weeks of radiation, Spencer's tumor has been "stable" for the past 12 years.

At Spencer's time of prognosis, the doctor's told us that less than 10% of children with this type of brain tumor live past the age of five, but we know that God's plan trumps anyone's speculations.