Subject: Recently...

Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:42 PM

Hello Everyone,

I'm sorry it's been so long since I have sent a recent update and some of you may have heard some of this info through the grape vines already so bear with me. In the past month or so we have had some discoveries. One is that my red blood cells were running a little low and even with the help of some shots they were still running low so a few weeks ago I had a blood transfusion to help replenish those cells and boost some other parts. The transfusion went well and made me feel much better.

Another issue we dealt with was that I was having severe headaches for a couple of weeks and they were concerned that the cancer may have spread. Therefore we had an MRI done on my head and turns out everything is normal.

We are thinking that my headaches may have been attributed to my lack of food intake. So now I have a liquid medicine that I take in the morning to help stimulate my appetite. That medicine is working well and my hunger is back to a sort of normal. I'm eating better anyway.

Now to the most recent news. I had another scan done this past Friday to check my sacrum/pelvis area to see how things were going. The results were not good. It seems that the original tumor has gotten bigger and is spreading spots throughout that area. It has not left that bone or that bone area so that's a positive thing, but not an impossible thing.

This means that the doctor has concluded with the time frame from when this all began over a year ago that this cancer in my sacrum has always been there. It has not responded to the chemo I had before surgery, or the radiation, or the chemo that we are doing now.

He has suggested that we try a different route with the chemo drugs. We will use different ones that will attack the cancer differently. I don't know what they are yet, but I will next Wednesday when we have another treatment. The course of action right now is to continue chemo since it does not bother me too much and to make me as comfortable as possible on my pain level. He is not setting a time line he is just letting us know his plans for now.