Hunter LiveStrong: Saturday the 24th..

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...

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Saturday the 24th..

Hunter wasn't feeling that great today and did end up getting a blood transfusion due to his bloody nose that he got last night. He was up almost most of the night not feeling to great, which left him not feeling that get today either. They started him on TPN last night also which is basically liquid nutrients and fats. He is basically not eating and when he does it doesn't stay there too long. The idea of eating sounds good to him but not the foods that he is able to eat, but even if he was able to eat what he wanted to it wouldn't be a good idea because he is not keeping things down.

Unfortunately he had yet another bloody nose tonight. It lasted well over an hour and again had to get a unit of platelets. The main problem was that the blood wouldn't clot to stop. We will see how his Red Blood Counts are tomorrow to see if he needs another blood transfusion. Hunter's counts are going down each day and this shouldn't be any different tomorrow or the up coming days. We just have to wait for the Stem Cells to kick in. This is and will be the hardest part for him...

Thank you for all of your continued thoughts and prayers....
The Herrick Family