Brooklyn’s brain surgery

(this information is from Brooklyn's mom, Ashley from 07-08-2020)

I never thought waking up yesterday how much our world would be thrown upside down. I never thought I'd be sitting in a room at Cardons hospital with my sweet Brookie.
Took her in to the ER yesterday due to 2 months of headaches and vomiting. It got so bad that we took her back in after just being there last week.
When ER doc came in and told me her CT scan came back ABNORMAL my stomach just dropped. My sweet baby girl, my little Brookie cookie has a mass on her brain, the size of a gold ball. I sit here trying to keep it together in front of her, to be the brave one. The fact is I'm scared out of my mind. I don't even know how to process ALL of this. I never in a million years
 thought this would happen to me, to my family. You only ever hear about someone else going through it. Now I'm living a horrific nightmare that I can't wake up from. And to make it worse COVID-19 is making this 100 times harder. Only one of us can be with her at a time. And no visitors, which means no siblings or other family members! It is extremely hard not having my husband, Donald Chad Carton here! But at least we can swap out so he can come and be with her.
At this moment she has no idea that she has a mass on her brain, or that she will need surgery. When the time comes to tell her I know how much fear and anxiety will flood her body. My heart is breaking .
Her surgeon came in this morning and told me what is going to take place today and over the course of the next several days...She goes in for an MRI at some point today, then they will put a shunt in to help relieve the fluid pressure on her brain, which should make the headaches and nausea go away. Once that's in and they get the pics from her MRI back they will let her head rest and then do surgery about 12 hour later. Surgeon said today is gonna be a long and difficult day. All we ask as her parents is that you keep her, our family and all those on her medical team in your thoughts and prayers. I believe in the power of prayer and the affects it can have. Brooklyn is so brave and fearless...but this is a whole new level and she is gonna need all the mental and physical strength possible to get through this. This is only the beginning of a long hard journey. Love you all and I will update as things go along!