Surgery Drama

Sierra had an MRI yesterday to check on the affect of the chemo on her tumor. Her doctor told me today that her tumor still appears to be growing even through all of the treatment. It is possible that it only looks this way(that is what we are hoping for) or it is possible that the chemo she has been on hasn't been very affective and she will be put on some additional chemo regimens after her surgery. because of the possibility that her tumor is still growing and the cancer cells aren't dying the way the docs would like, we really need to get the tumor out of her body as quickly as possible. We have been told that if we can't get Sierra's rotationplasty surgery figured out by the beginning of July, that she will have to have her leg amputated. We are not going to allow that to happen. She will have her surgery done, though it will now be done in Portland. I have talked to the surgeon who will preform it, his name is Dr. Krajbich(pronounced Cry beck) and he has done over 50 rotationplasty surgeries. He is having his nurse coordinator call me tomorrow and see what we can figure out for him to do the surgery. This is the surgery she needs, and we will make sure it happens for her, there is no other choice, in my mind.
Sierra will also be having a PET/CT scan tomorrow of her whole body, maybe it will give us some more answers, maybe not. I really don;t know. We will know more about whether her chemo protocol will change after her tumor has been removed and it has been tested for tumor necrosis(death). If it is over 90% necrosis, we will continue with the protocol she has been following, if it is under, she will add 2 more chemotherapy drugs to her protocol and a few more months of treatment.
Please send lots of prayers our way, prayers that Sierra will be able to have the rotationplasty surgery done at the beginning of July in Portland, prayers that she will heal and recover well, and prayers that her tumor necrosis will be over 90%.