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A Night Out 4 Clay Concert- Love and the Outcome
An evening to support Clay
Come and spend an evening with friends, family, and community members and listen to one of the nation's top award-winning contemporary Christian duos!
Clay's Story
Clay was like all other high school aged soccer junkies until November 2014 then he started having headaches and vision problems. He was playing in a soccer tournament with his new club team and I noticed him running differently and looking down as he ran. I asked him about this and he said he was seeing double. I called his family eye doctor and scheduled an eye appointment for the next week. The prognosis was that he needed reading glasses, which helped until got back on the indoor soccer field in January 2015. He was getting the same thing, double vision and things were blurry and he was having some balance issues after laying or sitting for very long. Then the headaches started up again. Scheduled more eye appointments and were trying contacts. Everything we tried was getting non-typical results and finally the eye doctors wanted to do an MRI of Clay's brain, do to his eyes telling them one thing and the brain reacting differently.
Clay had the MRI scheduled for 4-11-15, his 15th birthday. Within three hours of getting the MRI done I received the phone call no parent wants to receive, his doctor informed me that he had a golf ball sized (it ended up being the size of an egg) tumor at the base of the cerebellum and top of his spinal column. The doctor wanted me to take him directly to Riley Hospital for Children and ask for a certain surgeon and they would know what to do. After looking at his schedule for the next week and the fact that he was on call for the next day, he decided to do the surgery the next day. I explained to Clay what the plan was and that I did not want him to be worried or scared, that this was God's plan and we are along for the ride and that he has to trust in God and he has a plan for him. They explained that it would take three hours for the surgery and a total of five ours he would be gone. The surgery lasted six hours and was gone for a total of 8 hours. The surgery was successful, all of the tumor was removed and the drain for the spinal fluid to drain off the brain. In the weeks that followed he had two more MRI's, to verify all of the tumor and cancer were gone, Also he had three or four CT scans to watch for bleeding on the brain.
The pathology results came in on April 20th and it was cancer, we explained to Clay what the results were and he told me that was okay, he told me that it was God's plan and that we were along for the ride, he also told me that he was not scared as he trusted God. He has not been scared once during all of this. On April 24th they did a spinal tap and implanted the port for Chemotherapy. the next week they moved to the inpatient rehab area of the hospital for more aggressive rehab. He was having physical, occupational and speech therapy twice a day each for four total hours of rehab a day. He started making progress but didn't start making good progress until our consult visit to Knoxville. I made him eat three meals a day and he finally started putting weight back on and getting stronger and is starting to walk better.
On May 9th he went to watch some of his friends play there soccer games and got to spend time with them after the game. He asked me after we left the fields if he was going to be able to play soccer again. I told him it was going to be up to him and he was going to have to put in a lot of hard work, just as he did getting ready for this last season.The games he watched were the boost he needed before we left on May 10th for Knoxville to start the radiation treatments on May 11th.
He is determined to beat this and knows that God has a plan for him.
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LocationBreck Auditorium (View)
2003 S. Miller St
Shelbyville, IN 46176
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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