[Woodcarver] update on Ol' Don

[Sheri Lew]

Great news Sandie! Bless you both!! And the docs!

Sheri Lew
shlew in Littleton

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, SANDIE BURGDORF <outdoor111 at verizon.net>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.

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> Sandie

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