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Extended Network Banner made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!Mary Elizabeth is a 5 year old girl in our community that is battling a very serious illness. Mary Elizabeth has what is called a Pontine Brainstem Glioma (brain stem tumor). This was discovered when doctors were trying to correct an eye problem.Doctors at Casey Eye Institute wanted to do an MRI and double-check her vision problem. At that time her doctor felt that she was seeing the same problem with Mary’s eyes, crossing and not much improvement with the first surgery. The next evening after her MRI, her family received a call from Casey Eye Institute saying that something came up on her test that looked like a Brainstem Glioma.After a Brainstem Glioma is found, without treatment a child is expected to have only 12 to 18 months to live. With this type of tumor you can’t operate because it is in the brain stem; chemo doesn’t penetrate the blood brain barrier and with radiation it may shrink the tumor for a while but it comes back bigger and more angry.Alternative treatment at the Burzynski Clinic in Houston, Texas, is Mary’s ONLY hope of survival if God does not heal her.Mary has been on her treatment now for nearly twelve months and has had two MRI’s since starting treatment and both have shown that her tumor is stable. The cost of this treatment is $7,000 per month. Her family's medical insurance will not cover these treatments, because they are considered 'alternative treatment.' Mary's condition has recently hit the twelve month mark and these treatments have obviously helped her~PLEASE help Mary Elizabeth continue to receive the treatments with the HOPE of sustaining a long, helthy and normal life.Please join us in blessing this child and her family~ALL thought's and prayers WELCOMED!If you would like to make a DONATION in Mary Elizabeth's name, please contact [email protected] for further detail of how to do so, or make donations directly into The Mary Elizabeth Fund at South Umpqua Bank in Sutherlin, Oregon.Mary will return to The Burzynski Clinic in Houston on August 20th, 2007~PRAYING for MIRACLES!!
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