Help Debbie’s Cancer Fight
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Stage 4. Non-curable. Non-operable. Pancreatic Cancer. All words that an otherwise healthy person does not ever want to hear or expect to hear during a family vacation in Arizona. This is Debbie Osborne’s story:
Debbie and husband, Royal, flew to Arizona on Feb 21st. She began to have some off and on stomach cramps after eating. After a few days with the discomfort, she agreed she should not wait to get home to see the doctor, but to head into the ER in Arizona on the morning of Sunday, March 3rd. Once there, they ran multiple scans and blood work to investigate what the issue could be. By the early afternoon, they had found multiple tumors in her pancreas and liver. She was told to follow up with her local hospital as a biopsy would need to be done to see if it was cancerous. All they could give her was medicine to try relieve her increasing pain.
Debbie and Royal decided to fly back to Minnesota on March 5th, a few days earlier than planned. On March 8th, she had a follow up appointment in Fargo to take a biopsy of her pancreas and see what she was dealing with.
On March 12th, Debbie and Royal, along with their 4 kids, met with the oncologist in Fargo to give them the results of the biopsy. Which was when they got the news they never wanted to hear. Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. They were told if Debbie did nothing, she would likely have only 2-3 months to live, and if she tried Chemo (and if it was successful) she could maybe have 1-3 years. At this point, Debbie wants to try the Chemo so she can fight for more time and will have a follow up scan done after 1-2 months to see if the Chemo is working and if the cancer is shrinking. The main goal along the way is for Debbie to live as much as she can and try to be as comfortable and pain free as possible.
After having a port installed and an internal nerve block performed to help with pain, she is scheduled to have her first Chemo treatment appointment Monday, March 18th.
The facts: “Pancreatic cancer is sadly a deadly disease, mainly because it is poorly diagnosed and is quite difficult to find with screening tests. It is a silent disease, often showing no symptoms during its early stages and when they do finally show symptoms, chances are it’s already too late.”
We have created this website to help update friends and family of her successes and wins, times when she (and we) may need extra prayers to help get through the pains and struggles. Any messages or prayers that you might want to share to give her strength would be greatly appreciated. Debbie has her first line support system: husband (Royal), 4 kids (BreAnn, Tera, Chelsey and Jordan), 4 grandkids, 3 brothers and 2 sisters, and she is lucky to still have her mom and dad living down the street from her. We all LOVE her so much.
Debbie also loves her huge extended family, her friends, her work friends, and she loves her job at Digi-Key. She really wants to continue working if she can. Debbie is a “social butterfly” as she told her doctor.
Debbie and husband, Royal, flew to Arizona on Feb 21st. She began to have some off and on stomach cramps after eating. After a few days with the discomfort, she agreed she should not wait to get home to see the doctor, but to head into the ER in Arizona on the morning of Sunday, March 3rd. Once there, they ran multiple scans and blood work to investigate what the issue could be. By the early afternoon, they had found multiple tumors in her pancreas and liver. She was told to follow up with her local hospital as a biopsy would need to be done to see if it was cancerous. All they could give her was medicine to try relieve her increasing pain.
Debbie and Royal decided to fly back to Minnesota on March 5th, a few days earlier than planned. On March 8th, she had a follow up appointment in Fargo to take a biopsy of her pancreas and see what she was dealing with.
On March 12th, Debbie and Royal, along with their 4 kids, met with the oncologist in Fargo to give them the results of the biopsy. Which was when they got the news they never wanted to hear. Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. They were told if Debbie did nothing, she would likely have only 2-3 months to live, and if she tried Chemo (and if it was successful) she could maybe have 1-3 years. At this point, Debbie wants to try the Chemo so she can fight for more time and will have a follow up scan done after 1-2 months to see if the Chemo is working and if the cancer is shrinking. The main goal along the way is for Debbie to live as much as she can and try to be as comfortable and pain free as possible.
After having a port installed and an internal nerve block performed to help with pain, she is scheduled to have her first Chemo treatment appointment Monday, March 18th.
The facts: “Pancreatic cancer is sadly a deadly disease, mainly because it is poorly diagnosed and is quite difficult to find with screening tests. It is a silent disease, often showing no symptoms during its early stages and when they do finally show symptoms, chances are it’s already too late.”
We have created this website to help update friends and family of her successes and wins, times when she (and we) may need extra prayers to help get through the pains and struggles. Any messages or prayers that you might want to share to give her strength would be greatly appreciated. Debbie has her first line support system: husband (Royal), 4 kids (BreAnn, Tera, Chelsey and Jordan), 4 grandkids, 3 brothers and 2 sisters, and she is lucky to still have her mom and dad living down the street from her. We all LOVE her so much.
Debbie also loves her huge extended family, her friends, her work friends, and she loves her job at Digi-Key. She really wants to continue working if she can. Debbie is a “social butterfly” as she told her doctor.
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Family of Debbie Osborne
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Thief River Falls, MN