NEWS

Here we go the latest news from Houston M.D.Anderson hospital ......Just in case you haven't heard the doctors were very happy with my progress on my current chemo drugs and those two spots on my liver well one they can barely see and the other shows significant shrinkage. So they recommends 3 months more of same therapy and then in fourth month a scan to see...and there is a possibility on no more chemo if there gone.....can we say thank you JESUS.

So I still need those prayers y'all been putting up cause them chemo treatments are not pleasant and Brenda still has to put up with my whinning about it!

Thanks for the prayers you have said for me.

For my KATE

AS most of you know I have temporary guardianship of my grand-daughter and she keeps me on my toes. She also has been growing like a weed currently she is 4ft. 1 in tall and weighs in at 70lbs. Makes it hard to lift her around when we need to go some where. Most of you know she is in a wheelchair and to go somewhere we have to load her in the chair, roll her to the van, unload from wheelchair into car seat then load wheel chair, we do not have a lift in our van.This goes on every time we want or need to go some where. So our need is a wheel chair van, do you know just how expensive those are!! Here is the deal....we have found a used van already equipped with a lift and all we need is $4500.00, so the race starts. I have several plans on how to attack this, the main one is trust GOD to make it possible. My daughter has placed a pay-pal button on her blog for donations to this cause. Any help would be wonderful and if you can't send money I understand, you can always pray for us. Thanks and GOD bless all

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND I'M STILL HERE

It has been a while since my last post, so let me catch you up.

Yes I still have cancer, yes I'm still taking treatments, yes my faith in GOD is still intact.


Now that's been taken care of let me continue, my treatments and numerous surgerys have taken a toll on my self and my family however we seem to have struggled Thru. And I plan to continue to fight, I had developed a toxicity to one of the drugs they were giving me so my drug therapy has changed. The new one they have me on still causes nausea and it also has another side effect, it gives me a rash that looks like acne and yes it itches like crazy. I have some cream to put on it however it only helps a little.


Other news is I am a granfather for the 4th time. Haven't gotten to hold the little buger yet but there will be time for that later . That's it for now will post more often and thanks.

NEWS AND RAMBLINS

Yes its been a while since my last post.

So here's the news, recovery went well from my surgery and was preparing to take several more chemo treatments when my incision from my surgery developed a hole, not a big one but it was still a hole in my belly. The doctors here in Odessa decided not to start chemo until that healed all the way, well that took a while. Finally it healed enough that the surgeon here would put another port-cath in my chest and I get to start my chemo Monday.

The bad part is my last c t scan at M.D.Anderson showed another spot on my liver, it is a small one only the size of a Lima bean and the doc there said if he's not happy with the shrinkage the chemo causes then this one would be fairly easy to cut out, at least easier than my last time.

Thank all for your prayers

Hello everyone, I'm back from Houston and the surgery went well. I had the surgery on December 8, 2008 and was supposed to spend a week in the hospital and be released that didn't happen. I had an infection hiding behind my portacath and once my surgery was done my immune system wasn't strong enough to fight it off. The wife says they nearly lost me twice because of that. But that's why we went to M.D.Anderson, they are the best at this sort of surgery and they removed the portacath and the infection and here I am. I was finally released on December 17 to go home. Then on January 7, 2009 went back for check up, doctors were very happy with my progress and said I was healing well, they also recommended about three more chemo treatments . Once this is done my survival chances are at about 65% that the cancer will not come back. That's not to bad if you consider the first doctor only gave me 18 months.

Thank you all for your prayers, may GOD bless your lives more than you can imagine.

Surgery to come

This will be my pre surgery thoughts and wishes, to have GOD guide the surgeons hand to give my family strength while they wait to see if all is well and to show the strength that my faith has given me in this time of trial.

I've always considered life as a test, just a test to show how much each person has grown in their personel relationship with GOD. Yes bad things happen to Christians just like they happen to any one else, the difference is how you let it affect you and those around you . I've said this illness was just a tool to use in witnessing and I need to treat it as such. I have been able to talk about GOD and his mercies and the many wonders he has seen fit to allow me to see, I have been allowed to witness about GOD to the toughest people a man like me could witness to,family the people who have seen all my mistakes and know me like no other , the people who watched me in my sin full youth.

LIVE LIFE LIKE YOU WERE GOING TO DIE TOMORROW AND MEET GOD.

Yes I'm very afraid of this Monday and what it has in store for me the surgery, the recovery, the waiting for the biopsy . But GOD has given me a strange kind of peace which will be hard to explain so I will not try, all I can do is trust GOD. His will be done.

New News

Here we are back from M.D.Anderson cancer center and here's the word from the doctor.

The plan is to gain strenght and not take any more chemo , and eat right of course so that my system can stand the surgery. I'm supposed to go back to Houston December 5th for lab work, an ekg, and talks with doctor and anesthesiologist about what to expect.

In the meantime I will be talking with all the accounting departments about what I already owe and of course what I will owe and trying to find all available funding I might be eligible for to help pay for this.

I think they already have so much invested in me that they have to keep me alive just for a slight chance of them ever getting paid. I just thought I was in debt....wait till I get this bill.

Until then I plan on riding my motorcycle on every nice day, playing with these three gran kids, and giving Brenda all the trouble she can stand....now that sounds like fun.

Please continue to pray for me and I will continue to pray for you.