Yes, I said it. Goddamn cancer. This last year has just felt like one bad episode of House. If I lose one more person to this dreadful disease, I just might snap.
Friends of our family have been struggling with this disease as well. Our friends Alan and Angie live in Niles and we see them often. Angie has a sister whose husband Johnny was diagnosed with colon cancer last year, shortly after my diagnosis of Leukemia. He since gone through a fierce chemo regimen and surgery. It's also metastasized in his liver. This is from his Pam, his wife's blog today:
News from the CT is bad. Liver is worsening, despite both regimens of chemo. Cancer has traveled outside the liver to the mediastinal lymph nodes (lower chest) and in the upper abdomen.
Dr. Ansari is giving Johnny his regular chemo regimen today, and adding Avastin. He will evaluate our options and give us an updated plan in two weeks. We may be looking at experimental options next. Radiation isn't an option. Additional surgery isn't an option.
Dr. Ansari is giving Johnny his regular chemo regimen today, and adding Avastin. He will evaluate our options and give us an updated plan in two weeks. We may be looking at experimental options next. Radiation isn't an option. Additional surgery isn't an option.
My heart goes out to Johnny and his family. I wanted to post this here to raise some awareness about him. So, if there's a God you pray to or a savior you turn to in times of turmoil, now would be the time to keep Johnny and his family there in hopes of a good recovery. There's always hope.
Johnny, Pam, Alan and Angie -
If you need anything, please don't hesitate to call. You know we'd be there.
~Jonathon
