MRI is set for tomorrow!

Insurance has approved his surgery for Friday! So we go in tomorrow in the morning for the MRI and then they will have him admitted into the hospital. PRAY that there is no infection and pray this doctor can do more surgery for Bradley. He needs a few more miracles to beat this! PLEASE spread the word about this and wear your Bradley's Buddies shirts this Friday:) This Sat is LaVitsef in Ankeny. They have chosen to support Bradley this year. Please read the carepages and join in the fun this weekend! We went last year and had a blast! Elijah was the Prince of Ankeny last year and was honored at this festival. I wish we could be there but we will be in spirit! Thank you again for all your support and keep up the prayers!

A Gift Card Shower

School is just around the corner, which brings with it excitement, but also the demand for school supplies and school clothing. Then the holidays are upon us and Santa Clause must make this Christmas extra special. All this on top of the day to day expenses of food, clothing, gas, medications, personal supplies, etc make for a lot of financial challenges for Bradley’s family.

To help with these expenses, a gift card shower is being planned for Bradley and his family. Karen Boeding, who held the garage sale benefit for Bradley, is heading up this latest fund raiser. This is an opportunity for everyone, no matter where they live, to help lighten the burden for this young family as they continue to pray for Bradley's full recovery.

Any gift card amount is a blessing. Please help make this showering of gift cards a huge success.

Some ideas for gift cards are:
• Walmart
• Target
• Toys R Us
• Fareway
• Hy-Vee
• Caseys
• Walgreens
• Quik Trip
• Children’s Place
• Great Clips
• Sports Clips
• McDonalds
• Pizza Places

A gift card from anywhere will be accepted and greatly appreciated!

Please mail your gift cards to
Karen Boeding
6977 NE 8th Ct.
Ankeny, IA 50023

Karen will be honored to give the Allen Family your donations.

As always, thank you for all of your prayers and support! Let’s make this fundraiser a huge success!

Another surgery?

I just spoke with Chris, Bradley's dad...Bradley and the Allen's need some prayers from all of us.

When the last surgery was performed at Mayo Clinic, we believed it to be very successful and that they had gotten enough of the tumor out for the proton therapy to destroy the remaining tumor. The neurosurgeon stated "We removed as much of the tumor as we could. Any additional removal would devastate the nerves to his face, more then likly never to recover". Today, Dr. Chang, who will be administering the proton therapy, called and said that more tumor would need to be removed for the proton therapy to work. This would mean another surgery before proton therapy can begin.

We are hopeful that the neurosurgeon at Mayo will look at the MRI again and maybe see something different this time that will allow him to extract more of the tumor without the devastating affects he mentioned after the last surgery. Or maybe St. Jude's would be able to help now? All options are being explored and discussed at length.

Chris and Angie are devasted by this news, but are so amazingly strong. Their positive attitude that a solution WILL be found and their faith that God will help them through this time and will cure Bradley is so inspiring. Please say some prayers for Bradley, the entire Allen family, the doctors who will have to perform yet another surgery on little Bradley and the doctors who will administer the proton therapy.

We will keep you updated. Thank you for all of your prayers and support.

Update

A message from Bradley's dad Chris via his Facebook page:

Well....looks like Bradley and I will be in Indiana longer then we wanted or expected. He has yet another infection and we don't know where yet. We know it is called "Grahm Negative Rods", but that is about all we know. Anybody know any thing about this? We would appreciate it if you would all continue to pray for Bradley. Hope you all have a great weekend and enjoy your families. Let off some fire works for me :-)

I hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday weekend. Your prayers are much appreciated.

URGENT! Prayers needed!

Bradley had surgery done late last night/this morning to place 3 tiny screws in his head that will act as a navigation system for the Proton therapy. All went well with that and the Allen family was supposed to be able to head for home today or tomorrow, however, Bradley has developed a fever of 103 and the doctors in Indiana have decided to admit him. Please, please, say some prayers for him that they get the fever down quickly and that this turns out to be nothing.

Thank you for your prayers!