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URGENT PRAYER REQUEST!!

This past Friday, the world of our Nephew and his wife and family was tossed up-side-down.  During a Dr’s appointment for hives, they discovered that their sweet little son, Kade, has Leukemia.  Kade will be 2 on Jan. 25^th.  Below is an up-date from our nephew – Kade’s daddy – Kent.  Our family would greatly covet your prayers for this sweet little boy.

Blessings, Kim Wolf<><

Hello everyone,

As many of you may already know, our son Kade was diagnosed Saturday (1/6/07) with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).  To get you up-to-date…today he underwent surgery to have a “port” implanted in his chest.  The “port” will be used to administer medicine and to withdraw blood and give I.V.’s in the future.  While he was sedated they also took the opportunity to do a spinal tap and give his first treatment of chemotherapy into the spinal fluid.  He will get his second dosage of chemo tomorrow, and I believe they will consider it Day 1 of Phase 1.  At this point he will go through 3 phases that they estimate will last the course of 3 years, with the first 6 months being the most intensive.

How’d we get to this point?

Well, Kade has been sick basically off and on for about 2 months.  The pediatrician diagnosed him with having a double ear infection the Wednesday after Christmas.  He was given a prescription drug to treat it, which over a week later caused an allergic reaction in which he broke out on hives on this past Friday (1/5).  Donna took him back in to see about getting another prescription.  While she was there she explained the pediatrician that Kade looked very pale over the last 2-3 weeks.  Our pediatrician decided as a precautionary to do a blood test and sent her over to Children’s Urgent Care.  From those tests they saw some irregularities in the cells and urged us that night around 10pm to get Kade to Children’s Medical Center.  They did a test on his bone marrow to make sure he had Leukemia and what subtype it was and we got those results back late afternoon on Saturday.

I want to thank everyone already who has been praying for us.  God is already answering those prayers, never was it more apparent than today.  We found that we caught the cancer at a relatively early stage (white blood count was only up to 24K, whereas many children who come in are upwards of 80K-100K.  Normal is 10K-15K).  Praise be to God, the spinal fluid test came back negative, which means the cancer had not spread to his spinal fluid.  The doctors were preparing us for a rough recovery from today’s procedures.  Kade made a liar out of them by coming back to the room with a Wolf-size appetite and was rambunctious as usual.  And everyone tells us that if you had to get Leukemia, that Kade was diagnosed with the most curable kind, which is very encouraging to us.

Again, please continue to keep him in your prayers.  We are fortunate to have such loving family and friends as you.  You’ll never know truly how much all of your support means to us.  If you’re a parent, I’d encourage you now to go to your kid(s) and show/tell them how much you love them.  Because you never know how many times in your/their life you’ll get to do that.

In His Grace,

Kent & Donna Wolf

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11:45, 2007-Jan-9 .. Posted by katenicholl

I'm praying for Kade.

Catherine

How heartbreaking

12:39, 2007-Jan-9 .. Posted by JoyceFamily

I have prayed and will pray for this dear little guy, and all the family.
Eleanor

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02:09, 2007-Jan-9 .. Posted by Ilona

I'm sorry to hear your nephew's son is so ill. I will be praying for him, too.

Ilona

Absolutely

11:48, 2007-Jan-11 .. Posted by teapots66

Consider it done (prayers). Please keep us informed about Kade's progress. -Chris