Hi Tony,
I want you to know that my thoughts and prayers are with you and Karen. If you
need to talk, I'm always ready and more than willing to listen and to help in
any way that I can.
Take care and God bless you.
Lori, 1981.
From: Vickie
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 3:59 PM
To: MSB Alumni
Subject: [msb-alumni] Prayers Needed
Well I finally get to spill the beans about Tony. He’s been telling me not to
tell this list, and I’m not sure why, because prayers have been needed for
quite some time. Tony is healing still from his broken leg, and is now using a
walking cane instead of the walker. But the news is not about Tony but his
girl friend, or fiancé`e really, for about 17 years, Karen. Karen is older
than Tony, by about 15 years. Recently, she has been diagnosed with lung
cancer, as an amniotic carcinoma exists in the lower lobe of the right lung.,
measuring 2.6 by 1.8 centimeters. She has visited a surgical oncologist, who
is reluctant to perform surgery to remove the tumor, since Karen also has COPD
or emphysema, which the doctor described, is the same thing. He’s afraid she’ll
lose her quality of life, having to live on oxygen, etc. if he removes the
whole lobe. She has a lot of scarring from the COPD. So, there is more to be
known. In the PET test completed back in May, her lymph nodes in the same area
of the lung, showed to be enlarged. They didn’t light up, like the tumor did,
but the surgeon is concerned and therefore, this Wednesday, she will undergo a
procedure where they will put a tube down the windpipe through her nose, to
examine the lymph nodes, and remove them, if they appear to be cancerous as
well. So, that’s why Tony has released my silence allowing me to ask for
prayers on Wednesday when this procedure is being done. If all goes well, it
will be a one day affair, and she’ll be home Wednesday evening around 6. They
claim that the kind of cancer she has is not the kind that moves around the
body, but he told her if nothing is done, being no chemo or radiation, she will
die within 18 months. And, of course, the 20 doctors reviewing her case, have
only given her those options, chemo, radiation, or surgery. No immune therapy,
or vitamin C therapy, etc. like they do for people out here in Arizona. So, I
guess prayer is the only option, as far as I’m concerned. So, please pray,
even if you’re not a Christian, please pray. Anyone who knows Tony, knows that
Karen is his life, not just his life’s partner. Of course, I’ll let you know
more as I know it. I didn’t find out until a couple of weeks ago, myself.
Vickie Rolison
May God bless you now, and evermore!
