Fight Like Mary Davis

11/19/2025

Update 11/19 - Mary Davis had the bronchoscopy procedure last week and tolerated it well! The tests have taken time for the labs to be analyzed and the cultures have grown out a bacteria that can cause pneumonia. She is on antibiotics and the plan is to repeat CT chest next week. Pray with us that this is all infection/inflammation and her scan next week shows great improvement in the area of concern!

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11/11/2025

Update 11/11- Mary Davis’ CT chest last Monday showed an area in her right lung that is concerning. To gather more information Mary Davis will have a broncoscopy on Thursday afternoon; doctors will use a camera to look in her airway/lungs to see and obtain samples for a better idea of whats going on. We are praying and hoping this is infection/inflammation from recent viral illnesses. In good news, her mri of her head/neck was all good!! 🙌🏻

In fun news, Mary Davis went on her first field trip to the pumpkin patch - spoiler she was indeed the cutest pumpkin in the patch so I brought her home with me! 🤗

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11/03/2025

11/3: Surveillance scans are this morning - all prayers, positive vibes, good juju, etc welcome for clear scans with no surprises!!

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10/14/2025

https://www.al.com/life/2025/10/butter-and-beads-how-an-alabama-5-year-old-is-beating-aggressive-pediatric-cancer.html?outputType=amp

Our Mary Davis story Rick Karle wrote on Al.com!

Three years ago, Mary Davis Rutledge of Mobile was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive childhood cancer. The 3-year survival rate? Only 9%. Somehow, someway, she has beat the odds.

08/01/2025

GOD IS SO GOOD ALL THE TIME!! Thank you for all of your prayers, good vibes, positive energy, etc - we are elated to report Mary Davis’ scans are all clear!!!!!!!! Our hearts are overwhelmed with gratitude!!

Now, we’re off to spend the last bit of summer relaxing at the beach and soaking up every last drop of these precious girls!!!!! 🩷🩷🩷

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07/30/2025

It’s that time again … time for Mary Davis’ quarterly surveillance scans today. We welcome prayers (good vibes/positive juju, anything you can muster) for clear scans!! 🫶🏻🎗️🙏🏼

We hope you are all enjoying the last stretch of summer break and finding fun ways to stay cool!! 👙👒🌈☀️🧜‍♀️

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06/27/2025

Mary Davis is 5️⃣ today, a whole hand 🤚🏻! She is so incredibly kind, tender, hilarious, spunky, loving, and truly one of a kind! We spent the day with our friends at the Hope Clinic for her immunotherapy infusion. Praise the lord for allowing this day to come, for modern medicine, and for all the amazing staff who made her birthday extra special. Our blessings are never lost on us and we are deeply grateful to celebrate this day and every day with our precious girls! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 🦄🩷🩵🤍💜

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05/16/2025

More great news to report!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Mary Davis’ scans were clear!!! The spot in her right lung is still there but did not show up on PET which is super good news!! She tolerated round #3 of immunotherapy well and we are back home from Cincinnati!! She is feeling GREAT and we could not be more grateful for the good news!! Her team in Cincinnati is just thrilled with her response and her care will be transferred back to Mobile so she will have her infusions and scans here at USAC&W! ☺️

Mary Davis will be starting kindergarten in the fall (😰😭)!! So, here’s to a fun filled summer with lots of special sister time! 🧜‍♀️🏖️ ☀️ 😎 🏊

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05/06/2025

Great news to report - Mary Davis tolerated two doses of the new immunotherapy medicine and we are back home!!! Our next trip to Cincinnati is 5/11-5/15 for scans and the next dose of immunotherapy.

We appreciate all prayers for continued improvement on scans and safe travels!! 🤍

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04/03/2025

4/3: Mary Davis had scans Monday and Tuesday. As always she was our big, brave girl - she was able to do the chest Ct and her PET scan without sedation!!! We met with her oncologist yesterday to review the results and determine the plan for treatment… He was super excited that her right upper lobe nodule is smaller and less dense!! HALLELUJAH!!!! He has arranged for the first dose of the new immunotherapy tomorrow, she will be admitted to the hospital to monitor her closely. Please, please pray with us that Mary Davis can tolerate this new medication and that it’s effective against the cancer! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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03/27/2025

03/27/2025

3/26: Well things did not go as planned at Mary Davis’ second cycle of immunotherapy on 3/12. She developed a severe reaction during the infusion and had to be admitted overnight for monitoring. Because of this reaction she is no longer enrolled in the clinical trial. She recovered quickly and discharged from the hospital the next morning. We were allowed to come home while the team deliberates and develops a new treatment plan. We will return to Cincinnati on 3/30 for scans and appointments with her Oncologist. Our hope is that we will roll right into the new treatment plan but as of now we do not know how long we will be in Cincinnati this trip.

Specific prayer requests:
-new scans (CT/MRI/PET) are stable or improved
-discernment for Mary Davis’ clinical team in all their decisions
- Mary Davis is able to tolerate the new plan and it is effective
-each of our girls is granted a devine understanding of all of this, may they each know they are loved and special and the decisions we face are not at all “choices”
-and of course, safe travels

For now, enjoy some photos of our sunshine girl soaking up these past two weeks at home with family and friends. 🌈 ☀️ Mary Davis was invited to a University of South Alabama football practice where she met the head coach (Major Applewhite) and several football players. She was also invited to throw the first pitch at a University of Mobile softball game 🥎 and had an absolute blast! (See videos in comments) We also enjoyed an early Easter celebration with family. We saw Mary Davis’ cousins last high school play and so much more! We’ve been trying our best to make the most of our time at home especially with her big sister, Amelia! 🩷🩷🩷