{"id":1203,"date":"2010-08-20T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2010-08-20T13:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:20:06","slug":"update-on-elias-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/2010\/08\/20\/update-on-elias-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Elias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1143\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2010\/05\/Elias2.jpg\" alt=\"Elias2\" width=\"229\" height=\"273\" \/>&#8230;finally the long awaited update.<\/p>\n<p>It has been<span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong> a very long and  tense time of waiting<\/strong><\/span> for us and after calling up the hospital a few times we  finally got a reply on Wednesday, but it wasn\u2019t until this morning that we had  the meeting with the neurosurgeon, who explained in detail what the final  decision of the doctors was. That\u2019s why the update today.<\/p>\n<p>The team of doctors  actually met a few times this week and last to talk about our case. Now we know  for fact that there is still quite a bit of tumor left, more than 3 cm. (just over an inch)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The  doctors don\u2019t want to operate because it is <strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">too dangerous<\/span><\/span><\/strong> and postsurgical  disabilities seem very high. Also, the tumor is too big for any radiological  treatment. So what they have proposed is to leave the tumor alone and observe as  long as possible. They suggested to do a MRI every 3 month to monitor any  developments.<\/p>\n<p>The tumor can either stay the same, or grow slowly, or even mutate  into a malignant one. We don\u2019t know. Anyway, Elias is doing so good right now  and is developing fine that it seems to be better to wait and see how the tumor  develops and only operate if we don\u2019t have a choice anymore, since the chance of  <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>permanent damage is so very high<\/strong><\/span>. Now the whole situation comes to a stop, but  is still not solved, we just have to let go it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Our next steps are to fix Elias eyes (he is cross-eyed )and  then do physiotherapy to help restore his balance and the use of his right arm,  so that he can write again. This will take several months, and then not long  after that we will have another baby. So please pray for rest in our awesome  God, he is in charge and control of our lives.<span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Please pray<\/strong><\/span> also for wisdom what  to do next. We will have to look for a place to stay either in Germany or  Austria at our sending church at least until Elias has had sufficient therapy,  or even until our baby is born. We don\u2019t know, it doesn\u2019t look like we will be  able to go back to the Philippines anytime soon. We will be talking things over  with our NTM and Church leadership to see what God has for us in all of that.  These are certainly very <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>challenging times<\/strong><\/span> and we need God to remind us of  himself and that he is on the throne!<strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"> We also need your prayers<\/span><\/strong>, so thank you  for praying and please continue to do so. We really appreciate you all and would  like to keep you posted on any developments.<\/p>\n<p>In our wonderful Savior&#8217;s name<\/p>\n<p>Richard and Family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;finally the long awaited update. 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