Hunter LiveStrong: Friday the 23rd..

THE BEGINNING

January of 2007 we found a small lump on Hunters back located just under the skin, between the shoulder blades. The doctor told us it was a fatty tumor or sebaceous cyst, and it would get bigger, then smaller and go away. If it grew, or bothered him we could have it removed. June 27th it was removed in surgery and on July 3 we were back for a check up of the area and were told he had, cancer, Ewing's Sarcoma PNET (of the soft tissue surrounding the bone). A year of Chemo was started, which consisted being in the hospital every 21 days for 6 or 3 days at a time. He underwent a second surgery in October 2007 to clear the margins. On May 27th of 2008 he finished chemo and was "Cancer Free".

He was scanned and examined on regular intervals and his last clear scans were on August 19th 2009. October 28th 2009 we noticed a lump in the original tumor location. After a biopsy on October 29th, we were told the next day that the cancer has returned. The central line was put back in his chest on November 2nd and a series of tests have begun to determine the extent of the disease. Please view "posting" dated November 7, 2009 for treatment plan...

Friday, April 23, 2010

Friday the 23rd..

Hunter had a pretty good day today. He was able to eat, although his diet is pretty limited due to low counts. Hunter had another extremely bad bloody nose tonight around 9:30 p.m. lasting for a little over an hour. They were finally able to get it to stop although he lost a lot of blood. He had to have a platelet transfusion tonight due to the fact that his blood wouldn't clot. It will be interesting to see if he will need a blood transfusion tomorrow as well. They draw blood each day at 4 a.m.. His counts are continuing to drop each day as we expected.

Thank You Again For All the Continued Support..

The Herrick Family