End of A Season.......

Dylan at Harlem Globetrotters game March, 2012

DYLAN UPDATE:

Well Dylan finished out the basketball season, he had a great time.  His team won the championship for his division and he was very proud of that!  We also got basketball pictures made of him, the first set of sports pictures since before he diagnosed with the cancerous brain tumor, (June, 2010).

Dylan has had some things happening to him since the last update I posted.............

I picked Dylan up from school yesterday because he was having a headache and dizziness; this has been going on every day off and on since 2-29-12, the headaches he is having start at the base of his neck left side, running diagonal over top of his head to the front near his right temporal area.  He has also had some vision issues, consisting of: blurred vision, things shifting while looking at them, making his eyes hurt, and bright lights making his eyes and head hurt.

I emailed Dylan's doctors at Duke about all this, and his endocrinologist ordered some labs to be drawn locally to check his ability to make the stress hormones cortisol and ACTH - cortisol is very important for maintaining normal blood pressure and blood sugar during times of physical stress.  He had to do a fasting lab, so I took Dylan to a local lab this morning for these tests, and the lab will fax the results to Dylan's endocrinologist at Duke.

NEXT.....Dylan has his 6 month appointments again, at Duke next week.  He has a scheduled MRI, and he will see his Oncologist, Neurologist, and his Neuro-Opthalmologist.  The neuro-opthalmologist is the doctor the does very intensive visual testing on Dylan's eyes.  His eyes were checked a year ago, and everything looked good, however, with the brain surgery that was done, the neorosurgeons had to work VERY CLOSELY to his eyes, b/c the pineal gland that the tumor was on is DIRECTLY behind the eyes.  

Dylan's eyes are really worrying me, so I would like to ask EVERYONE to pray for Dylan and the wisdom and guidance of the doctors during this upcoming visit!

We will have to pay for travel, food, and lodging, once again, when we go to Duke next week.  If you feel lead to make a financial donation to help us pay for this trip, it will be greatly appreciated and wisely used!

Please join our family in helping Dylan with his continued fight, 
and ongoing treatments.   
(WE RETURN TO DUKE ON 3/14/12)

A bank account has been set up at the Salem VA Federal Credit Union in the name of Kerry Prater and/or Dylan Prater:


Make Payable to: 4DYLANZBRAINTUMORAWARENESS FUND
(formerly known as The Dylan Prater Benevolence Fund)
 OR to Dylan Prater/Kerry Prater
AT ANY
Salem VA Credit Union
1970 Roanoke Blvd Bldg 77, Suite 12
Salem, VA 24153
(540) 344-4419 or 1-800-308-6384

DONATIONS can be made at above address or by clicking this link.

Any and all donations will be deeply appreciated.

Thank You for helping Fighting4Dylan!

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!

We especially know that times are hard on so many people right now, we have prayed about this upcoming trip and Dylan's unknown future, and we know that the Lord will take care of our family and that any support we receive will be more than sufficient to help us through this next round of hospital visits and testing. Once again we ask our many prayer warriors to pray and forward this to all of your prayer warriors.

Thank you so very much for taking time to read this and praying for our family.

God bless,
The Prater Family

Dylan with his baby sister Kaylee