Jason's Cancer Journey

Hi my name is Melissa and I am married to an amazing man Jason. We got married on February 19th, 2022. It was a first marriage for both of us at ages 40 and 42. Jason had cancer as 10 year old and was not supposed to survive. God spared his life and he has had very little lasting effects. About 2 months ago Jason started having an odd tingling sensation on the right side of the body that kept spreading. Jason saw our regular doctor who sent us to a neurologist. The neurologist did a quick eeg in the office and had Jason schedule a MRI. Tuesday he had the MRI. Wednesday around 12:30 he texted me at work and said to call him on my lunch break. I asked if it was because of the MRI and he said yes. And the nightmare began....I called him and he said there are multiple tumors showing on the left side of the brain. Originally the oncologist said he would meet with us next Thursday but in the 20 minutes it took to get home, he said get to his office by 4:30. We left immediately. He told us there were 5 tumors. One is so deep in the thalamus it would be impossible to do surgery or anything on because it would cause too much damage. He sent us immediately to Osborn Medical center in Scottsdale to be admitted. They did a needle biopsy Saturday morning. The frozen tissue sample appears to be astrocytoma. The final pathology will take up to a week. This cancer has a 1-4 year survival rate with treatment. Treatment would be daily radiation and a chemo pill. I want to be able to be with him as much as possible during this. We have talked and he wants me at his treatments. I am a lead pre-k teacher so I don't have a job where it's easy to be gone. I will talk to them more tomorrow. First we need prayers and lots of them. Second if anyone can contribute anything financial to allow me to be with him we would be so so thankful. More updates to come as we start seeing more doctors this week

* update that our final pathology is glioblastoma stage 4*