Will be up to you all to catch the crappie in Nimrod
Just wanted to let you all know after we received my wife's test results this past week at MD Anderson we made a dicission we must move to Houston to continue her treatment. Sorry I never got to meet or fish with any of you but hope too still after we get this under control and come back home. Just to make it easy I copied the Facebook post we sent to all of our friends
Diary of a Co-Survivor D+637.
by Merritt Dan DeLaughter on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 12:43am
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To all our Friends.
As most everyone has heard the test results were not good. This is not the news we were expecting and now changes everything. We are moving all treatment to MDA which will start on Thursday.
Our plan to continue Cylinda’s fight is very fluid at the moment. In the coming days I will figure out how to make happen what has to happen so we can do this. Like eating an eliphant we will have to take one bite at a time. Currently what we do know is we start a new chemo treatment on Thursday here at MDA. More test will be started and the process to qualify her for one of four clinical trials. We rejected participation in any phase-one trials. Phase-two trials are past any blind studies where some patients receive placebo drugs. The only way for us to participate in a trial is to live here so one of the easy decisions has been made…we move to Houston.
The trial we are trying to get Cylinda into is a HER2+ vaccine drug our Dr’s here believe we can get her into. It works much like herceptin by blocking receptors that tell cancer cells to divide. We will know more in the coming days. This is all going to happen very fast.
A dear friend posted tonight “Life is completely unpredictable”. So true…there are times in your life when things happen and you just don’t understand. Then days or weeks later it all becomes clear. This is that moment for me. I have not shared this with anyone but July 5th I lost my job with Stock Building Supply and now unemployed. At first I was mad, angry, worried and a lot of other feelings. In the past weeks I had decided well it was because Cylinda needed me to be there for her and that made it ok. After our test results today I know with crystal clarity.
We will be here in Houston until we win or lose this battle to kill the cancer. Here we make our last stand to save Cylinda’s Life. I will update everyone soon as to our status and what is going on. We have to decide what to do with everything in Little Rock and will most likely have a big moving sale or try to sell it all. Just not sure.
Thank you all for your prayers
This FIGHT is not over…..
DD