Ryder update

Date 09-08-2007 03:23

Hi yall thanks so much for your prayers and support on Tuesday he went in for brain surgery. They put in a shunt to drain the fluid off his lil brain and then they did a biopsy they gave him a 10% chance of coming back from the O R well he came back slept for 2 days but he came back and is now in I C U they removed the breathing tube yesterday and started him on flow oxygen just the lil hoses running into his nose they were removed last night as well as all the I V's he took his first bottle yesterday around 4 and another at 7 n 10 n 1am and finally went to sleep all looks good but we don't have the results back from the biopsy yet sometime next week we should DR said it looks to be highly cancerous but he has fooled them so far and all the prayers are working trust me they are he is alive awake and alert even smiles and didn't do that before he went in he is up to 4 oz. a feeding and burping he has really shocked everyone in the I C U i told them his last name is Griffin you may knock us down but we dot stay down for very long. THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT you guys just don't know how it feels to have a team of guys like you standing behind you thanks again guys you are truly the best

Shad Griffin
cell: 830-570-0654

By tompit9 (***)

Date 09-08-2007 07:12

good to here Shad. all our prayers around here are still going out to your family. God Bless

By raftergwelding (*****)

Date 09-12-2007 13:25

well dont know really where to start . we got the diagnosis back yesterday and it is cancer it is a P N E T tumor on his little brain they are going to try to keep it undrcontrol and possibly shrink it with chemo therapy and when he is old enough possibly remove it and then radiation they say he is to young for radiation right now so yall please keep praying for my son and i'm sure all will be fine with all of rooting for him he'll be just fine i'm sure of it hell he went thru 3 brain surgeries in 5 days with a 10% chance of making it and he's still here they say his chances are 40% i found info on the web that his chances are 60-80% so we'll just keeping kicking and see what happens he sure is a real trooper

By raftergwelding (*****)

Date 09-10-2007 02:46

9/9/07 well they did another cat scan today and although the cist drained off again his brain did not go back into place the dr seems to think the tumor is getting bigger and we still dont know what we are fighting hopefully tomm we will know what we are up against but lil Ryder is still justa kikckin this bronc he aint givin up and neither am i heck he's eating more now than when he went in so to me it looks good we should know more tomorow the next time i am home i will post another update thank you all so much for your prayers and support