Thursday the 27th of December

Mom heads to Geisinger to start her new treatment today at 2:00. Luke will be making the trip with her. There will not be any blood tests or appointments today just the treatment. This new treatment takes a lot longer to administer and has more side effects. Please remember mom in your prayers, especially in the next few days as we see how she will react to this treatment. Thank you all for your love and support. Happy holidays.

Thursday the 20th of December

Mom did not receive chemotherapy treatment yesterday. The meeting with Dr. White to review the radiologist report on the cat-scan did not turn out as we had previously hoped. The report indicated that the gemsar/tarseva treatment that mom has been on did not inhibit the cancer as much as we thought. Mom's pancreatic tumor has shown some more growth, the lymph node on mom's lungs looked a little bit larger and there were a few more spots of cancer in mom's lungs. The treatment will be changed to a much stronger, newer type of treatment combining gemsar with an intravenous drip of oxaliplatin. The treatment will be bi-weekly and will take three hours to administer as oposede to the previous 30 minute treatment. We still have many questions that we are working through with our doctors and we hope to have more details on mom's cancer and treatment in the near future.

Please continue to pray for mom and our family as we continue to fight the cancer.

Tuesday 18th of December

Tomorrow is another big day in moms treatment. At 2:45 mom will get her blood work taken, 3:30 mom will meet with Dr. White to further review the Cat-Scan results from last week and to evaluate the current treatment plan if every thing goes well mom will receive her treatment at 4:30. Please continue to pray for this process. Anticipating the appointment with Dr. White will be sure to test moms nerves. Please keep the encouragement comming. Thank you all.

Thursday the 13th of December

Mom's cat scan results were reviewed today by Dr. Sheldon, our surgeon. His reading of the cat-scan shows that there has not been any more growth from the tumors in mom's body. They are not, for the time being, shrinking, but the report is encouraging considering that in early September the tumors were growing at a very rapid pace. The lymph nodes in mom's body also looked a bit healthier, which is more encouraging news. The doctors are remaining cautiously optimistic. And we will continue to pray form mom's healing. The treatment plan will most likely continue as it has been. We will meet with the chemotherapy doctor, Dr. White, to review mom's case next week. Thank you all for you love and support. Please continue to pray for mom as she fights this disease.

Tuesday the 11th of December

Tommorrow is our first look at the cancer since mom started treatment. As you can imagin this is going to be a stressful week even still we look forward to getting some good results. Please pray for this test and mom's and all of our anxiety as we await the report. The test is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 9:30am. Mom has an appointment with Dr. Sheldon (our surgeon) Thursday. This week, as allways, mom and our family really need your support, encouragement and prayers (leave a comment the keyboard won't bite). She has allready exceded the normal tolerance for the chemotherapy and now we look forward to hearing how well her treatment has been working.

Sunday the 9th of December

The Ott family wanted to share some of our holiday cheer with all of you. Please click the link bellow. Thank you all for your unending love and support.

CHRISTMAS CHEER

Wednesday the 5th of December

Ooooppppsss. The radio spot was on 1360 WPPA. Sorry for all of those who were listening. The spot went great special thanks to Joe Hull who has been taking care of all of the details, Ark Rentals who paid for the advertising, Lazy Dog Coffee House for opening their doors for 3 hours past normal closing, and Soji who brainstormed this entire idea. The Lazy Dog will be open until 9:00 and have decided to extend their kitchen hours to 7:00 for those who want to eat. There will be a 5 dollar covercharge. All procedes will go to mom's medical costs. Here are some of the artists that will play.

Stand By Me

www.tommydeemusic.com

Soji's Myspace

Tuesday the 4th of December

Mom received her chemotherapy treatment today. Her blood work looked great and her weight had a slight dip. So please continue to pray that mom could put on a few pounds. Next week mom will get tested to see how well the chemotherapy has been attacking the cancer. It will be a real important week for mom. Please pray for the scan and that the results would be worth celebrating. Also pray for mom as she anxiously awaits these tests.

Tomorrow at 9:30 Ark Rentals has purchased advertising time for us to talk about the benefit concert for mom that will take place at the Lazy Dog Coffee House this Sunday from 6-9. Turn your radio dial to T-102 (101.9) and check it out. We hope to see a lot of you at this concert.

Monday the 3rd of December

Mom goes for treatment number 9 tomorrow. Please pray for mom's blood work and weight. Mom's appointment is at 10:45 and the chemotherapy is scheduled for 12:30.

The holidays always remind us to be thankful for the relationships we have. And so again we say thank you for allof your love, support and prayers. It means a lot to mom and it encourages her for this fight.