Update on Christine's mom (Faith Lindell)

I want to give you an update on my mom following her surgery on Wednesday. Her brain surgery showed that she had a glioblastoma - one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer. She came through the surgery quite well and spent an overnight in the ICU. Yesterday she was recovering well enough to be moved into a regular room and has been up, standing a couple of times. The tumor was located on/close to the speech part of her brain, which is how we first realized something was going on. Mom had all of a sudden started having difficulty finding words. The surgeon informed my sister that he thinks he was able to get 80-90% of the tumor, which is actually more than he was expecting given the type of tumor. We are not sure what the next steps will be - typically for this type of surgery there is radiation and chemotherapy which follows.

One of the risks of this surgery, given the location, was damage to speech. Mom has been able to say some words and already has a speech therapist who has come to work with her. So we are hopeful that with time and a decrease in the swelling, that her speech will improve.

We are grateful that the surgery went as well as it did and grateful that the surgeon was able to take out as much of the tumor as he could. We understand this is an aggressive type of cancer so at this point, we are most grateful to still have some more time with mom. 

Thank you for all your prayers and well wishes. And we'd like to ask for your ongoing prayers.

We appreciate it alot.

Christine