Hello all,
I'm at my friend's place right now at the time of typing this and we are all staying up before we make the four hour drive to the Mayo clinic at midnight tonight to check in my 12 year old niece for a Colectomy due to her progression of (FAP) and several precancerous polyps found (they say say she has so many that they can't count them all and it gets worse with each colonoscopy) the doctor said she didn't really want to consider it until she was at least 16 , but understood pushing the surgery forward to ease the stress and anxiety she is going through. And trust me the anxiety she is going through has caused her to wake up at night in just absolute tears and panic attacks. It's just not fair that a girl so young is dealing with something so adult and unfair. Me, my friend his wife, and my niece's mother spent na good two hours talking with her about this decision since it will quite literally and fundamentally change her, even though she is under 18 it is her body and we told her that this is her decision to make and we will all support her no matter what and thus here we are.
I'm just here to ask for your prayers for such a brave child.
Thank you all for your time.