My Wonderful Husband!!!!

Well, there is not too much new with Jeff...except the cancer Dr. in Long Beach was okay with the LA's cancer Dr. working with us too (for some reason I thought they wouldn't like another doctor looking into the case)...anyway he told us that the LA Dr. had a new study he was looking into for Jeff to see if he qualifies for it...that would mean that we'd do the chemo and radiation at Long Beach and if he qualifies for this, somewhat experimental, treatment then we might have to go to LA for that...so we may still have to drive into LA, but if 3 different treatments will give him a better chance, than we will gladly drive to LA. They are supposed to let us know this week when the radiation will start and the experimental thing and chemo will probably start at the same time. The LB Dr. said that they have a total of 6 weeks before they absolutely have to treat him...so...tomorrow will start the 6th week since he was diagnosed. He's still in pretty good spirits and the only thing slightly affected by any of this is his short term memory...that could be stress, meds, or damage from the seizure...only time will tell.



NOW THE BUCCOWICH FAMILY:

My friend Susan, who I told you about in previous posts had figured on having surgery to remove her tumor early next week, however, last week Wednesday night (the 4th of July) they had to do emergency surgery because her motor skills and speech were deteriorating by the day...she got through the surgery fine and her family were told that they were able to get 98% of the tumor...then in the last few days her husband was told by the doctors that after looking at the scan they took after surgery...they were only able to remove 70% of the tumor and that it looked like it may have been malignant, stage 2. She had the tumor on the left frontal lobe of her brain so her left eye was swollen shut from the surgery and she was having trouble with the vision in her right eye...the doctors told Mike the reason for the vision problem was because she had a slight stroke...I'm not sure if that was before the surgery or during...anyway this morning in church I talked to Mike and every day Susan is getting a little better...so...we believe that God will pull her through this valley and she also will be healed...she & Jeff will have mighty testimonies!!!!!!

We are thankful for your prayers and ask that you continue to lift up both of our families!!!

~JAYNE~