After four heart wrenching months of watching their one-year-old daughter fight for her life, Santa Clarita natives Brittany and Cardon Ellis can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

On June 1, baby Elisabeth Ellis underwent an 8-hour brain surgery — her second since the February diagnosis —  to remove an aggressive and rare cancerous tumor called Choroid Plexus Carcinoma.

Baby Elisabeth recovers from surgery with her parents, Brittany and Cardon Ellis, at her side.

Her parents didn’t know what would happen when their daughter was wheeled off to the operating room at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles that morning, knowing only that the surgery needed to be much more aggressive than her first.

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“Our neurosurgeon, Dr. Krieger, he told us … now we’re at the point where we need to completely eradicate (the tumor), so she could have a seizure, she could have a stroke, all these different scenarios could play out,” Brittany told KHTS. “And he said, ‘I have to keep going with the surgery.’”

Cardon called it the longest eight hours of his life, second only to Elisabeth’s first brain surgery in February. When the doctor finally reappeared in the waiting room, it was with good news.

“They were able to take out all of the tumor,” Brittany said. “I think he was pleasantly shocked (that) everything went well. There was no seizures, no strokes. He said, ‘I don’t foresee any permanent damage.’”

In fact, Elisabeth’s surgical team told her elated parents that the little girl had come out of the surgery “swinging” at the nursing staff after less than a minute of being awake, when a normal child would have been incapacitated for hours.

“She’s always a super resilient girl,” Cardon said. “I was so proud of my girl in that moment.”

Elisabeth with her parents before the surgery.

Cardon attributed Elisabeth’s awe-inspiring strength and continued progress in beating her cancer against all odds to his dedicated community of prayer warriors in Santa Clarita.

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“I think all the prayers kicked in,” he said. “We overloaded the call center up above, and it worked.”

While Brittany and Cardon get to be home with Elisabeth for about another week while she continues her recovery, her battle is far from over. The family is set to return to Children’s Hospital L.A. on June 19 for Elisabeth’s final three rounds of chemo, which Cardon described as the most “brutal” of all.

“We’ve still got a long road ahead of us, but I’ve got to tell you, the physical demand of putting your child through chemotherapy is not half as difficult as the emotional and mental demands,” Cardon said, “and the emotional stress was greatly relieved when we found out that Dr. Krieger was able to take out all the tumor. So there’s light at the end of the tunnel.”

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All photos courtesy of Cardon Ellis.