{"id":7422,"date":"2010-02-10T04:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=7422"},"modified":"2010-02-10T04:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:05:25","slug":"doctors-stunned-when-3-year-olds-brain-tumor-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doctors-stunned-when-3-year-olds-brain-tumor-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Stunned When 3-Year-Old&#8217;s Brain Tumor Disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,584921,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.162318:b30274534:z0\" target=\"_blank\">Doctors Stunned When 3-Year-Old&#8217;s Brain Tumor Disappears <\/a>A 3-year-old girl has stunned her parents and doctors after fighting off an inoperable brain tumor all by herself.\u00a0 Liberty Rose Finn was given 18 months of chemotherapy to try and shrink a growth behind her eyes which was sending her blind.\u00a0 The grueling treatment only halved the tumor, leaving parents Carl, 34, and Dawn, 32, fearing the worst for their daughter&#8217;s future.\u00a0 But nine months after the chemo stopped they were stunned by the results of a new brain scan taken last week, which revealed the growth had practically disappeared all by itself.\u00a0 Scans at Nottingham&#8217;s Queens Medical Center revealed she had optic chiasm glioma, a tumor wrapped around both of Liberty&#8217;s optic nerves, which was making her blind. <!--more--> Her parents were told the growth could never be removed because of its size and location and a pioneering chemotherapy was the best option.\u00a0 Chemo began in October 2007, but by the end of the treatment, a scan showed the tumor had only shrunk by 50 percent.\u00a0 Doctors said because the treatment had made her so ill they could not give her any further sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Finn is convinced Liberty somehow fought off the tumour that the chemotherapy could not.\u00a0 &#8220;I literally couldn&#8217;t believe it when I saw the scan &#8212; it was bizarre,&#8221; Dawn Finn said. &#8220;The tumor that had looked so large before had just gone. I had to ask the doctor over and over again: &#8216;Is this Liberty, are you sure?'&#8221;<br \/>\n### end of excerpt<\/p>\n<p>So what made Liberty&#8217;s tumor disappear?\u00a0 Maybe because she knew she was sick and was told all these people and procedures were going to make her better, and so she believed it.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to believe that it&#8217;s going to be alright and that people are working on our behalf to make that happen.\u00a0 We all want that, right?\u00a0 And if we begin to believe that, we will begin to attract that out of the people around us.\u00a0 People will begin to work more obviously in our behalf.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll feel as though a miracle has taken place in our own lives.\u00a0 And we&#8217;ll be right.\u00a0 The miracle is knowing when you choose to believe the best, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll attract out of everything and everyone around you.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the miracle.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the secret.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?sub=addfavbtn&amp;add=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/pix\/fave\/tech-fav-1.png\" alt=\"Add to Technorati Favorites\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">LISTEN FREE<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsmagazine.com\/CD_Page\/Downloads.html\" target=\"_blank\">You Are Not The Body<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doctors-stunned-when-3-year-olds-brain-tumor-disappears\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Doctors Stunned When 3-Year-Old&#8217;s Brain Tumor Disappears&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doctors-stunned-when-3-year-olds-brain-tumor-disappears\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doctors-stunned-when-3-year-olds-brain-tumor-disappears\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doctors-stunned-when-3-year-olds-brain-tumor-disappears\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Doctors%20Stunned%20When%203-Year-Old&#8217;s%20Brain%20Tumor%20Disappears&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doctors-stunned-when-3-year-olds-brain-tumor-disappears\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors Stunned When 3-Year-Old&#8217;s Brain Tumor Disappears A 3-year-old girl has stunned her parents and doctors after fighting off an inoperable brain tumor all by herself.\u00a0 Liberty Rose Finn was given 18 months of chemotherapy to try and shrink a growth behind her eyes which was sending her blind.\u00a0 The grueling treatment only halved the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}