Update 2

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick note to let you know what happened at the Oncologist appt today.

He looked at Westin’s wound from his last surgery and decided he would like to give it another week to heal before starting treatment.

So Westin will start the Interferon treatments on Monday June 14. He will go everyday (Mon-Fri) at 7:30 am and it takes about 2 hours each day for 30 days.

They sent us home with prescriptions to fill to help with nausea and an anti-depressant. Some of the side effects of Interferon are achy muscles, fever, chills, feeling flu like, nausea, and depression. But you’ll be happy to know that Westin fully intends to defy the odds and feel good the whole time :)

After the 30 days, he’ll be sent home with Interferon injections that he will give himself every other day. It looks like a little pen that you just click and poke. This dosage is about half of what the intravenous dose will be so he should feel less sick (if he gets sick ) during the 11 months that he is on this.

His boss at work loves him and has told him that he can start working again and they will arrange his schedule around how he feels and give him as many hours as he is able to do. Westin is very grateful for that because he still has bills to pay but hasn’t been able to work since April.

Kelsey has been working on a fundraiser to help Westin with some of his medical expenses. Her salon is sponsoring a “Cut for a Cause” day and will be doing haircuts all day (at a great price) and donating a portion of the proceeds. They should have a definite date for the event very soon. Also, Sweet Cakes is participating in the fundraiser on that day as well. Kelsey is busy contacting other businesses to see if they would like to participate . It will be a great help….what a great sister! She and Sarah will both be cutting hair at the salon that day, thank you girls!

BriAnne has offered to spend days with him at treatment to be there with him ,when she has a babysitter -that’s usually me…yay!. It’s been neat to see our family come together and work for a common goal. We are being blessed by so many and also strengthened by continued prayers and kindness.

Thank you!!...Life is good.

Love,
Helen