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...

What is Ewing's Sarcoma and Stem Cell Bone Marrow?

Ewing's sarcoma
http://www.cancerindex.org/ccw/faq/ewings.htm#q1


Stem cell

This was posted on the sidewalk at Tour De France

This was posted on the sidewalk at Tour De France
THANK YOU to Debbi Ortego for doing this for Hunter <3

Monday, March 1, 2010

Thanks

First we wanted to say THANK YOU TO EVERYONE for the fundraiser on Saturday! It was great to see everyone and can't thank Lisa Sharp, Mom Marie and the whole family and Shelly Bailey for putting it on. Joe and Hunter wished they could attend.

That brings us to the update. Hunter is very sick. He entered the Kaiser hospital in Anaheim, Saturday night and was air lifted to Kaiser Sunset in LA. He is in the ICU with a high fever and very low blood pressure. He is on an array of antibiotics till all the lab work comes back tonight. Because he just finished chemo his count are very low which adds to the problem of fighting this off. Please pray for his recovery and we will do are best to update more and make a longer post on the Saturdays fundraiser.
Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. UnknownMarch 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM

    As always we hold Hunter as well as you all in our hearts and prayers. Thank you for taking the time to post with all that is going on. We love you all. Hug Hunter for us.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)