Update #2 (Good News!): I heard from Tyler again earlier this evening. It turns out that things aren’t as bleak as they seemed earlier. It turns out that the doctors do not want to do surgery because Tyler has had too many surgery’s in recent years. Another surgery right now could do immediate and irreparable damage. So, they’ve decided to wait and try chemo/radiation first and see if they can get the tumors to shrink or go away or at the very least stop growing. If it doesn’t stop growing then they’ll have to reassess and probably do a very risky surgery. As for now though, that is very good news. Please continue to keep Tyler and his family in your prayers!!! Let’s see God do something amazing here!
Update:Just heard from Tyler with bad news. There will be no surgery. The doctors just informed him that they can’t operate on the tumors and gave him 5 months to live. Please please please continue to pray. I believe that God can do something amazing here!!! Please keep him and his family in your prayers!!!
In the fall of 2008 I met Tyler at Georgia Tech. He was finishing up chemo from a very rare form of cancer and was about a year behind everyone else from his high school class because of his cancer and treatment. In January of 2009 he was supposed to come over for the National Championship game but no one could get ahold of him. We received a call from his dad that he had almost died the night before when a tumor in his brain caused an aneurism. He barely made it the hospital in time and they performed emergency surgery to save his life. He had to withdraw from GT for the semester so that he could rehab. Tyler’s a fighter if I’ve ever known one.
This past week Tyler sent a message that he was having pain in his head again and that he had a bad feeling about it. He was going in for an MRI and would let us know. After the MRI we learned that he has another tumor in his brain that they’ll operating on today at 11am. From what I’ve understood, this is a much more serious issue than before and the doctors have let them know that.
In addition, the past few January’s (between the 1st and 10th specifically) have been downright terrible for him. In 08 he began chemo for his first bought with cancer and then on the 7th of last year received his second blow. Obviously this last one came this past week as well.
Please pray with us today for Tyler. Pray for his complete healing and that when they do the pre-op MRI that they’ll find that God has completely healed him! There was a girl in our church here in NYC last year who was given just a few months to live and was prayed for and was healed. I believe that God can heal Tyler! Let’s pray for that!!! I’ll post an update when I hear something later.
Please pass this along as well and lets get a lot of people praying for Tyler this morning. And feel free to leave a comment here with a message for Tyler if you want and I will pass it along. Thanks everyone…
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I will be praying for him. Thanks for informing me.
Came here through Twitter…praying for Tyler!
We are definitley praying for you Tyler and are standing with you in faith. We believe that God, the healer and true doctor will be with you and will bring complete healing to your body!
Thank you all for the prayers. With your prayers and the Lords willingness, I can beat this thing again. Survival is of course the most important thing, but me actually getting to live the life of a college student and graduate (and find that perfect someone) is almost as important, but only for increasing my mood. Just keep praying everyone!
A few years ago my friend Dawn was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She listened to these teachings on healing (http://www.awmi.net/extra/audio/1036) and then our ladies Bible study group laid hands on her and prayer. The doctor called her back the following week and said they had “made a mistake” and she did not have a tumor after all. I say, NO MISTAKE! She was healed! Praying the same for Tyler and I would recommend those teachings.