Hunter LiveStrong: Rough One Again..

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...

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Rough One Again..

Vomiting continued till late last night. Nurses had to wake him a lot because his blood pressure was too low. Blood transfusion at 4am (2 units), and Hunter blew his nose at around 10 am and it began to bleed and would not stop. They had to give him platelets at 12:30 to help with clotting but still has packing in his nose as of 1:30 pm. They are going to take packing out when platelets are done. When that is done he wants to try to eat a bagel and praying it wont come back up.

Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers..

The Herrick Family