Doug Corta, Eagle Idaho
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As friends, family, teammates, colleagues, and church family we have come together to create this fundraising site for the Corta family. Doug is fighting a Gioblastoma (GBM) - High Grade Tumor, and despite his physical limitations, he continues to bring strength to this community. The time has come for us to surround the Corta family with our love, support, and finances. Many people know someone who is in the fight for their life from disease and how financial stress makes it all worse. This GoFundMe account is set-up to help them in their current season of reality: flights, travel, hotel stays, and pressing financial needs knocking at their door.
Doug and Jacki are both self-employed, and Doug cannot run his business due to his health condition, but has been able to coach the Eagle High School Girls Softball team (which just one the Idaho 5A State Championship!). Jacki spends most of her days trying to figure out all the details of how to care for him, cover both of their businesses, coach basketball, and hold everything together. Please consider joining with us to support TEAM CORTA!
Here is an update from last weeks events written by Jacki:
Doug finished his regular season undefeated. Wow what a huge accomplishment. They went into districts and lost in the semi finals, yep they LOST! There was devastation seen, but I believe it put a fight in the girls. I told a few of them, it is now when you want to lose, you don't get rings for district champs, you get rings for state champs! They came back and won and entered the state tournament in 3rd place. Putting them in the first round of the state tournament playing the #1 seed from the north, yep, we get Coeur d' Alene. Both teams only having 1 loss each. It was a great game with a huge crowd for CDA since we were playing in Post Falls. Game one. . . .Eagle wins! Game two vs. Highland. . . Eagle wins! Semi final game vs. Meridian. . . Eagle wins! State Championship game vs. CDA. . . EAGLE WINS! Doug gets his first State Championship!
Doug was named Coach of the Year for 5A SIC, once again making me so proud. Him back on the field this year has been a huge blessing in our house. Seeing him doing what he is so passionate about and loving every minute of it. The guy truly loves these girls and has only wanted the best for them and this season they got exactly what he wanted them to get a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! As I walked up to him on the field and said good job honey, you did it! He quickly said, no Jack, no, THE GIRLS DID IT, the girls did it all! I wanted to sit and cry, the man is so absolutely amazing.
MRI on Monday! This is where life can get REAL real fast. Dr. Benkers walks in, nope she isn't saying the MRI was good, she goes right into "how are you feeling, how are things going, are you having headaches" She does some neurological testing on Doug, then says the MRI does not look good. You have 3 spots of growth, this is where the air in the room gets heavy. She doesn't slow her talk and continues on with the chemo you are doing isn't working, so we need to stop the CCNU, the Nativis study doesn't seem to be helping either. She says we need to look at other options, novacure device, and some radiation. She still doesn't slow, there are many studies we can look into, some are closed, some you don't qualify for, and you need to focus on quality of life. Your quality of life seems really good right now. You are strong and doing well, but with these aggressive tumors that can diminish quickly and when that happens we would look into hospice! WAIT A MINUTE, why are we even saying the "H" word right now, that is what I screamed in my head. I looked up at Doug, deflated, she just took all life he had right out of him in on word. He looked at me with the most fear I have ever seen in his eyes. I quickly said take some deep breaths, Douglas, take some deep breaths. With me babe, breathe. He looks at her and says are you saying I have years? She says No. He then says, days? She said, no no not just days. I wanted him to stop asking and I wanted her to stop talking. I sat there quiet, she says I can give you my clinical overview of a time if you want, Doug softly says I am scared to hear it. He began to cry. We moved on to treatment, thank you God I did not want to hear a number. She gave us both a hug said we would have another MRI in 8 weeks. Dr. Cobbs came in he seemed completely torn, the trial states if there is any growth you are void to be in the study. Mary the study coordinator comes in, Dr. Cobbs says out loud, I want to throw a fit and keep him in the study. Mary says it states he can't. As I grab the boxes of the device I said I want to keep one for memory sake. She giggled, like have it bronzed like baby shoes. She walked out the door, Doug looks at me and says what do you think. I broke, the tears began to flow and I said I wanted to tackle Mary as she walked out the door and grab those boxes that is what I think. Dr. Cobbs looked towards the ground. Doug began to cry, Dr. Cobbs walked over and hugged him. As we waited for them to get us an appointment with Dr. Loiselle for CyberKnife scheduling, Doug started listing off all he was going to miss, sobbing he started with Demi's graduation, grandkids, walking his girls down the isle. I kept telling him we need to stay strong. Then I decided, today, today we are going to let this just be ugly. We shed many tears, Doug was completely worked up. We got our treatment plan, and he had to have another MRI, we had them give him something to try to relax for the MRI. We then went to the cafeteria to get something to eat before we got on the road for home. We got to Swedish at 6:30am and we were getting to eat at 2:00. We are sitting there eating and Doug softly says to me, I hope this goes fast. I said what did you say, he begins to cry and says I hope this goes fast for you. We both began to cry, I said please don't say that. He says, Jack I have never wanted to hurt you. I said sweets, I signed up for this. You are not hurting me. With the most sincere look in his eyes he says, I am so lucky to have you. I responded, I am pretty lucky to have you and I love you so much. I followed it with, "NOW WE FIGHT! WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT!
Here is the timeline of his medical events:
February 23rd 2014 - Doug was not feeling well I took him to St. Luke's Urgent Care where they checked his blood pressure, told us he was probably having some anxiety and to follow up with his doctor on Monday.
March 5th the headache had become so severe he began throwing up. I rushed him to urgent care where they did a few blood pressure tests and told us we needed to rule out a few things before they would send him home. But that meant going to the ER.The doctor told us that on the scan it showed a 2 inch spot / lesion on the right side of his brain.
March 6th Doug had his MRI done at 11:00 am. at St.Luke's in Eagle. Doug has an unknown brain tumor that has to be removed. Once it is removed they will be able to determine what type of tumor it is. He will have surgery in about 10 days. The surgery will take 3-5 hours. Doug will be down for about 6 weeks, depending on how he heals. The tumor is located in a sensitive spot, that could affect the movement of his left side.
March 13, 2014 - Surgery to remove tumor - the doctor determined the tumor itself was a malignant tumor, and the doctor removed 95+% of the tumor and the other portion he could not get due to it affecting his left side. Doug has a GBM - High Grade Tumor. It is not melanoma. Which means it is only in the brain and not throughout his body. He will start chemo and radiation.
Jul 18, 2014 - Doug's tumor has grown. Doctors here in Boise feel the treatment they have done, Doug's tumor did not respond to it.
Jul 23, 2014 - Surgery - The Doctor reports: The pathology shows it was tumor regrowth, BUT I BELIEVE I GOT IT ALL ! We will do a MRI to look at it tonight or in the early morning. I feel it was a success.
Oct. 8th, 2014 - MRI - The spot we seen in the last MRI looks stable and even a bit smaller!
October 13th, 2014 - Cyber Knife Radiation
Dec 4, 2014 - 2 new spots of growth
Dec. 16th - GammaKnife radiation on three spots
Feb 2, 2015 - MRI results - Dr. Benkers came in and said TUMOR IS STABLE!
Feb 12, 2015 - Entered the clinical study for the head band
Mar 10, 2015 12:30pm - MRI - TUMOR IS STILL STABLE!
Apr 6, 2015 - MRI - TUMOR IS STILL STABLE!
May 18th, 2015 - We did NOT get a stable tumor. Doug has 3 new spots.
As friends, family, teammates, colleagues, and church family we have come together to create this fundraising site for the Corta family. Doug is fighting a Gioblastoma (GBM) - High Grade Tumor, and despite his physical limitations, he continues to bring strength to this community. The time has come for us to surround the Corta family with our love, support, and finances. Many people know someone who is in the fight for their life from disease and how financial stress makes it all worse. This GoFundMe account is set-up to help them in their current season of reality: flights, travel, hotel stays, and pressing financial needs knocking at their door.
Doug and Jacki are both self-employed, and Doug cannot run his business due to his health condition, but has been able to coach the Eagle High School Girls Softball team (which just one the Idaho 5A State Championship!). Jacki spends most of her days trying to figure out all the details of how to care for him, cover both of their businesses, coach basketball, and hold everything together. Please consider joining with us to support TEAM CORTA!
Here is an update from last weeks events written by Jacki:
Doug finished his regular season undefeated. Wow what a huge accomplishment. They went into districts and lost in the semi finals, yep they LOST! There was devastation seen, but I believe it put a fight in the girls. I told a few of them, it is now when you want to lose, you don't get rings for district champs, you get rings for state champs! They came back and won and entered the state tournament in 3rd place. Putting them in the first round of the state tournament playing the #1 seed from the north, yep, we get Coeur d' Alene. Both teams only having 1 loss each. It was a great game with a huge crowd for CDA since we were playing in Post Falls. Game one. . . .Eagle wins! Game two vs. Highland. . . Eagle wins! Semi final game vs. Meridian. . . Eagle wins! State Championship game vs. CDA. . . EAGLE WINS! Doug gets his first State Championship!
Doug was named Coach of the Year for 5A SIC, once again making me so proud. Him back on the field this year has been a huge blessing in our house. Seeing him doing what he is so passionate about and loving every minute of it. The guy truly loves these girls and has only wanted the best for them and this season they got exactly what he wanted them to get a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! As I walked up to him on the field and said good job honey, you did it! He quickly said, no Jack, no, THE GIRLS DID IT, the girls did it all! I wanted to sit and cry, the man is so absolutely amazing.
MRI on Monday! This is where life can get REAL real fast. Dr. Benkers walks in, nope she isn't saying the MRI was good, she goes right into "how are you feeling, how are things going, are you having headaches" She does some neurological testing on Doug, then says the MRI does not look good. You have 3 spots of growth, this is where the air in the room gets heavy. She doesn't slow her talk and continues on with the chemo you are doing isn't working, so we need to stop the CCNU, the Nativis study doesn't seem to be helping either. She says we need to look at other options, novacure device, and some radiation. She still doesn't slow, there are many studies we can look into, some are closed, some you don't qualify for, and you need to focus on quality of life. Your quality of life seems really good right now. You are strong and doing well, but with these aggressive tumors that can diminish quickly and when that happens we would look into hospice! WAIT A MINUTE, why are we even saying the "H" word right now, that is what I screamed in my head. I looked up at Doug, deflated, she just took all life he had right out of him in on word. He looked at me with the most fear I have ever seen in his eyes. I quickly said take some deep breaths, Douglas, take some deep breaths. With me babe, breathe. He looks at her and says are you saying I have years? She says No. He then says, days? She said, no no not just days. I wanted him to stop asking and I wanted her to stop talking. I sat there quiet, she says I can give you my clinical overview of a time if you want, Doug softly says I am scared to hear it. He began to cry. We moved on to treatment, thank you God I did not want to hear a number. She gave us both a hug said we would have another MRI in 8 weeks. Dr. Cobbs came in he seemed completely torn, the trial states if there is any growth you are void to be in the study. Mary the study coordinator comes in, Dr. Cobbs says out loud, I want to throw a fit and keep him in the study. Mary says it states he can't. As I grab the boxes of the device I said I want to keep one for memory sake. She giggled, like have it bronzed like baby shoes. She walked out the door, Doug looks at me and says what do you think. I broke, the tears began to flow and I said I wanted to tackle Mary as she walked out the door and grab those boxes that is what I think. Dr. Cobbs looked towards the ground. Doug began to cry, Dr. Cobbs walked over and hugged him. As we waited for them to get us an appointment with Dr. Loiselle for CyberKnife scheduling, Doug started listing off all he was going to miss, sobbing he started with Demi's graduation, grandkids, walking his girls down the isle. I kept telling him we need to stay strong. Then I decided, today, today we are going to let this just be ugly. We shed many tears, Doug was completely worked up. We got our treatment plan, and he had to have another MRI, we had them give him something to try to relax for the MRI. We then went to the cafeteria to get something to eat before we got on the road for home. We got to Swedish at 6:30am and we were getting to eat at 2:00. We are sitting there eating and Doug softly says to me, I hope this goes fast. I said what did you say, he begins to cry and says I hope this goes fast for you. We both began to cry, I said please don't say that. He says, Jack I have never wanted to hurt you. I said sweets, I signed up for this. You are not hurting me. With the most sincere look in his eyes he says, I am so lucky to have you. I responded, I am pretty lucky to have you and I love you so much. I followed it with, "NOW WE FIGHT! WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT!
Here is the timeline of his medical events:
February 23rd 2014 - Doug was not feeling well I took him to St. Luke's Urgent Care where they checked his blood pressure, told us he was probably having some anxiety and to follow up with his doctor on Monday.
March 5th the headache had become so severe he began throwing up. I rushed him to urgent care where they did a few blood pressure tests and told us we needed to rule out a few things before they would send him home. But that meant going to the ER.The doctor told us that on the scan it showed a 2 inch spot / lesion on the right side of his brain.
March 6th Doug had his MRI done at 11:00 am. at St.Luke's in Eagle. Doug has an unknown brain tumor that has to be removed. Once it is removed they will be able to determine what type of tumor it is. He will have surgery in about 10 days. The surgery will take 3-5 hours. Doug will be down for about 6 weeks, depending on how he heals. The tumor is located in a sensitive spot, that could affect the movement of his left side.
March 13, 2014 - Surgery to remove tumor - the doctor determined the tumor itself was a malignant tumor, and the doctor removed 95+% of the tumor and the other portion he could not get due to it affecting his left side. Doug has a GBM - High Grade Tumor. It is not melanoma. Which means it is only in the brain and not throughout his body. He will start chemo and radiation.
Jul 18, 2014 - Doug's tumor has grown. Doctors here in Boise feel the treatment they have done, Doug's tumor did not respond to it.
Jul 23, 2014 - Surgery - The Doctor reports: The pathology shows it was tumor regrowth, BUT I BELIEVE I GOT IT ALL ! We will do a MRI to look at it tonight or in the early morning. I feel it was a success.
Oct. 8th, 2014 - MRI - The spot we seen in the last MRI looks stable and even a bit smaller!
October 13th, 2014 - Cyber Knife Radiation
Dec 4, 2014 - 2 new spots of growth
Dec. 16th - GammaKnife radiation on three spots
Feb 2, 2015 - MRI results - Dr. Benkers came in and said TUMOR IS STABLE!
Feb 12, 2015 - Entered the clinical study for the head band
Mar 10, 2015 12:30pm - MRI - TUMOR IS STILL STABLE!
Apr 6, 2015 - MRI - TUMOR IS STILL STABLE!
May 18th, 2015 - We did NOT get a stable tumor. Doug has 3 new spots.
Organizer
Jacki Cada Corta
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Eagle, ID