09/22/2025
Please send up some extra prayers 💛 if you would like to support Crockett with a monetary donation we are still raffling off a Turtlebox Ranger, $10 a chance and all the proceeds will go directly to his family. But most of all PRAY!
We sadly don’t have great news to share this afternoon. Our hearts are broken… The MRI from this morning shows that the tumor in his brain is larger and not responding to chemo. There are a lot of moving parts happening quickly, even as I type, but tonight we are transferring him to Texas Children’s Hospital main campus in Houston to prepare for another brain surgery to remove this tumor. It will be at some point this week.
He has quite a bit of fluid building up in the center of his brain, which is the cause for the headaches that started back up. He is still in a lot of pain, and they’ve had to pull out the strong medications to try to bring him some relief.
His port was removed successfully today & they stitched him up and placed a drain in his chest to help relieve some of the swelling and pressure there. They may also need to do another procedure once we get to TCH to manage the fluid building up in his head until his blood counts recover enough from chemo to safely operate to remove the tumor. It’s going to be a careful wait-and-see process to determine the best time to go in and the surgery team wants him on their campus to monitor him there.
This surgery carries even greater risks than before, mostly because his immune system has been wiped out by the chemo recently. We are about to wade into some very murky waters, but we cling to the One who calms the storm. “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear…” -Psalm 46:1–2.
We are trusting that the Lord goes before us in this transfer to a different hospital and also in to the operating room later this week! We need your prayers more than ever!! Prayers for wisdom, strength, protection, comfort, and miraculous healing for our sweet boy! May His will be done, and may His glory be seen in every step of this part of the journey!!!