[Woodcarver] Fwd: Brief update - Good news, Bad news

[Teri Fox]

"Ol Don"
I follow reports on you and also have enjoyed and appreciated your 
colums and help.
Your in my prayers and sure glad to hear good news. teri

On Jun 16, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Ol' Don wrote:


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> The good news is that apparently the chemo and radiation treatments 

> are working since the cancer lesions in the lungs are shrinking.  No 

> change in the kidneys though since that is a different, slow growing 

> type cancer and will be addressed after resolving the aggressive small 

> cell lung cancer situation.  The current thought is that the kidney 

> with the malignant lesions will be removed but we'll address that when 

> the time comes.

>

> In our meeting with my oncologist yesterday it was determined that the 

> treatments for the lung cancer have to continue through August  and, 

> depending on my blood count at that time, treatment could continue 

> into early September so all of our pre-September events will have to 

> be canceled. We still  hope to be able to travel to Switzerland with 

> Wayne Barton in mid September and the GOW in October but regretfully 

> we will not be able to participate in Carv-Fest this year.  That was 

> not good news to me because we always have a good time in Faribault 

> and I will certainly miss jammin' with the band, a major part of my 

> enjoyment of Carv-Fest.

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