[Woodcarver] update on Ol' Don

[Sally Nye]

Sandie and Don,

Thanks for the wonderful post.  So good to hear things are as they  
should be.  Keep it up!
Love and HUGS
Sally and David
http://www.FanCarversWorld.com



On Sep 1, 2010, at 2:39 PM, SANDIE BURGDORF wrote:


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> Hi everyone,

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> Just wanted to share the good news. Don has finished his radiation  

> treatments and his chemo treatments for the lung cancer. The scans  

> yesterday showed that there is no sign of lung cancer cells in his  

> brain, chest or abdoman. And the kidney cancer has remained  

> unchanged since the last scan a couple of months ago.

>

> The only bad news is that once again, Don needed to get blood  

> tranfusions overnight. For the last 4 chemo sessions now, he has  

> needed transfusions a couple of weeks later. We are hoping that this  

> will be the last one needed since he doesn't need more chemo.

>

> They tell us that in another month or so they will want to do a  

> series of low dose radiation on the brain to protect the brain from  

> the lung cancer cells invading at a future date.  No word yet about  

> surgery for the kidney cancer. If it is not growing, they may hold  

> off on that.

>

> Sandie

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