Kate McRae's Journey [Brain Tumor]
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Uploaded by KidsCancerChannel on Jul 13, 2010
Monday June 29th, 2009 was supposed to be a day filled with summer fun. The kids and I were going to the water park to celebrate summer. However, I noticed that a slight tremor in her right hand that she developed over the past 2-3 days had notably worsened. We decided to take her to her Pediatrician, just for safe measure. Her Dr decided to get a CT of Kate's head, to rule anything out. We proceeded to Phoenix Childrens Hospital for a stat CT of her head. At 5:30 I, Holly, Kate's mom, was taken into a room alone and told Kate had a massive tumor on the basil ganglia portion of her brain. The world stopped for us that day. I called her dad and through sobs told him to come to the hospital quickly. Our journey had begun. Kate was directly admitted to the PICU. One minute thoughts of the water park the next our child is critically ill in the PICU. We would have never chosen to be a part of this journey with childhood cancer, but it was chosen for us, and our sweet Kate. She is now in the Phoneix Children's Hospital undergoing treatment for this disease.
Kate underwent a craniotomy with tumor resection on July 3rd, 2009. They unfortunately were only able to remove 50% of the tumor due to it's location in the left temporal lobe of her brain and the fact that the tumor had wrapped itself around major blood vessels to her brain. Kate experienced right sided paralysis immediately following surgery. She has since regained much of this, however right sided weakness still continues.
After a few days of waiting the pathology report was in, Kate was diagnosed with a very malignant, aggressive brain tumor called a supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor or sPNET. Our hearts were shattered. Dreams for our little 5 year old daughter put on hold to battle this monster. Long term prognosis and outcomes weren't encouraging so Kate has been put on a study that is showing a little more promising outcomes, hopefully a better chance at survival and less long term side effects. She is currently undergoing the Head Start 3 Study out of Los Angeles but doing it at Phoenix Children's Hospital. The study involves the initial brain surgery, 5 round of very intense chemotherapy with possibility of a subsequent brain surgery and then another round of chemo with a stem cell transplant. We are hoping to avoid radiation after transplant. Kate is also in physical therapy and occupational therapy and has been released from speech therapy.
We believe strongly in the power of prayer and the ability of Jesus to heal our precious daughter. Whether He does this through modern medicine or simply a divine touch, we aren't picky. We are asking others to join us on this journey and fervently pray for our Kate. The road is long and unbelievably hard. We have 3 children, all who are intensely affected. Olivia is now 7, Kate is 5 and Will is 4. Please keep all of us in your prayers as we try to walk this journey of childhood cancer. Thank you.
♥ Websites for Journal Updates on Kate ♥
www.caringbridge.org/visit/mcraekate
www.prayforkate.com
♥ Twitter Updates on Kate ♥
www.twitter.com/prayforkate
www.twitter.com/aaronmcrae
www.twitter.com/hollymcrae
Music in this video is "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus. No copyright infringement intended. All photographs of Kate belong to the McRae family.
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has there been any improvements
Prayers and tohughts for this lil sweetie xx getter well soon
her hairs is amazing
mychemmayhem 3 months ago
She will be better! Hope & faith is all we need to achieve our goals!
xaracdo 5 months ago
she'll be in my prayers...
FFchol0812 6 months ago
Keep going on honey, miracles can happen thanks to God.
CatLover1464 6 months ago
Dear Family McRae, my name's Corinna and I live in Sicily and pray for Kate every day, because God is a God of impossible, today I see a video of kate's picture and I cry... I am whit you whit my heart, God bless you, don't lost the faith, hope and forces. Sorry for my english... I love you
akiecori 1 year ago
@lauren6000blue dude serisoulsy you say this even on this kind of video what the fuc is waron with you were you a slut or raped over 9000 times???????? answer
hankm133 1 year ago
Great Video Im Praying for her with all my herat
EmilyTrinityBffls 1 year ago 2