Procedure

Quick Update

Kate mentioned in last night's post that she was having a procedure to provide some relief today.  She is out is doing well.  We're back in her room and she's resting comfortably.

The procedure was a right nephrostomy.  I'm sure you can use google, but the short of it is that they placed a tube through her back into her right kidney so that it can drain into a bag.  There is a tumor interfering with her right ureter (tube between kidney and bladder).  The ureter should appear on a CT scan as a very thin tube; Katie's right one looked like a balloon.  Her left one is fine and drains into the bladder normally.  We expect that the right one was causing some discomfort, so hopefully this procedure relieves some of her lower right back pain.

Thank you all so much for your prayers last night.  All the notes, comments, emails, and texts that you were praying are so humbling.  We know there are people all over the world praying for Katie.  We continue to pray that Venerable Fr. Antonio Margil intercedes with God to hear the prayers of His people and grant us a miraculous cure for Katie's cancer.

David