SAT . A mother is asking for prayer tonight — for her 5-year-old daughter standing at a critical crossroads in her cancer journey.
Ciara is reaching out to rally prayer warriors for her daughter, Halle — a little girl who has already endured more in five years than many face in a lifetime.
Halle was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma just after her third birthday.
Since then, she has fought through five rounds of chemotherapy, tumor resection surgery, two stem cell transplants, radiation, and immunotherapy.
Against the odds, the cancer was finally declared inactive.
But the treatment that saved Halle’s life has also left devastating damage behind.
Radiation severely injured her body. Her bile duct is blocked. Her liver has been damaged. One kidney is shrinking. Major blood vessels were compromised. And the section of intestine connecting her stomach to the rest of her digestive system was radiated so badly that Halle can no longer eat normally.
Right now, this 5-year-old survives on artificial nutrition for 18 hours a day.
Doctors are now preparing for an extremely complex, high-risk surgery — one that could change everything.
Surgeons plan to reconstruct Halle’s portal vein using her jugular vein, and bypass the damaged section of her intestine in hopes that she can finally eat like a normal child again.
If the surgery works, it could give Halle something she hasn’t known in years — relief.
If it doesn’t, her family may be facing the unimaginable: the possibility of a nine-organ transplant.
Ciara’s greatest fear lies in the fragile collateral blood vessels Halle’s body was forced to create after radiation damage. One wrong disruption during surgery could alter everything.
This is where they are.
Five years old.
Cancer behind her.
Now fighting for the ability to eat — and to live without machines.
Ciara is asking for prayers for:
- A successful surgery
- Protection over every vessel and organ
- Healing without the need for transplant
- Strength for her, and for their family
As Halle prepares for one of the biggest surgeries of her life, one question remains:
💛 What would you want this brave little girl — and the mother who has never left her side — to know right now?
