Cancer - Help Dave with Expenses
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On Dec 8th my husband Dave had his first routine colonoscopy, at the age of 60. He generally always feels fine and healthy. On December 18th we got the diagnosis that Dave had Colon cancer. Since then our lives have been a whirlwind.
Preparation for surgery 3 weeks later brought Dave's work in his business to a frenzy, and then to a complete halt. Surgery involved removing the entire ascending Colon and all connected lymph nodes; the pathology report showed that 4 lymph nodes were involved, and the tumor was through the intestinal wall and into the local blood vessels. Recovery from the surgery was slower than we thought it would be, and the oncologist wanted to wait a couple more weeks so that he'd be stronger, since she felt she needed to do a more aggressive chemo protocol. He had his first round of chemo this last Wednesday, it'll be 3 days of drugs every other week, for 6 months.
Dave has been building his business for the last 6 years as a furniture restoration expert and furniture builder. So far over the past 2 months, even with the help of our son in the shop for a month, Dave’s business has ground almost to a complete halt. This has all hit just as the flow of work was the most abundant! There's plenty of work coming in, but not the health and vitality with which to do it. I'm not able to support us both with my income, and we don't know how effective he’ll be able to be in the shop for the duration of the chemo treatments, or the necessary recovery time after the treatments are over in September.
We're hoping to raise enough funds that he won't have to force himself to try to work and worry about money, when what he needs to focus on is rest and healing through this hard time.
Tomorrow we will get a report from the Dr on the full cavity CT scan he had last Friday and we’re hoping she'll say nothing else was visible!
We do appreciate all the help we get. Thanks to everyone!
Dave and Deirdre
Preparation for surgery 3 weeks later brought Dave's work in his business to a frenzy, and then to a complete halt. Surgery involved removing the entire ascending Colon and all connected lymph nodes; the pathology report showed that 4 lymph nodes were involved, and the tumor was through the intestinal wall and into the local blood vessels. Recovery from the surgery was slower than we thought it would be, and the oncologist wanted to wait a couple more weeks so that he'd be stronger, since she felt she needed to do a more aggressive chemo protocol. He had his first round of chemo this last Wednesday, it'll be 3 days of drugs every other week, for 6 months.
Dave has been building his business for the last 6 years as a furniture restoration expert and furniture builder. So far over the past 2 months, even with the help of our son in the shop for a month, Dave’s business has ground almost to a complete halt. This has all hit just as the flow of work was the most abundant! There's plenty of work coming in, but not the health and vitality with which to do it. I'm not able to support us both with my income, and we don't know how effective he’ll be able to be in the shop for the duration of the chemo treatments, or the necessary recovery time after the treatments are over in September.
We're hoping to raise enough funds that he won't have to force himself to try to work and worry about money, when what he needs to focus on is rest and healing through this hard time.
Tomorrow we will get a report from the Dr on the full cavity CT scan he had last Friday and we’re hoping she'll say nothing else was visible!
We do appreciate all the help we get. Thanks to everyone!
Dave and Deirdre
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Deirdre Ann Hormel
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Oakland, CA