cousin Sheila

Sheila wants you to know that she will join the blog just as soon as she can figure it out. She also wanted to warn you, er, let you know, that she will be at the reunion in July.

Good News from Annie's Doug

Hey there everyone,
Just wanted to let you all know we got good news today. I saw one of my surgeons and the pathology report was clear---no cancer in my lymph nodes. He said it looked like the cancer was just in that one spot on my leg. They are going to do a couple more tests just to make sure but he said they were just being over-cautious at this point---and what the hell why not? I also wanted to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers over the last few weeks. They were much appreciated. I hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend and hope to see you soon.
Love,
Doug

Prayers, Please

This is a message from Annie:

I just wanted to let all you guys know what's going on with Doug. He had a mole biopsied a while ago and it came back as malignant melanoma skin cancer. It is on his leg and it is coming off in surgery at St. Johns this Thursday. We are being positive and hopeful that we caught it in time and there will be good news to follow. I just wanted to ask you all to have Doug in your thoughts and prayers this Thursday.

He's having a plastic surgeon do the removal of the area where the mole is. It's on the side of his left leg just above his knee. It's a tight area and the surgeon felt that a plastic surgeon would be a good idea. The plastic surgeons name is John Pollock-he looks like he's 12, but he reminds me of my brother Marty so it's okay. They are also doing a biopsy of the "centinel lymph node", which will be done by Dr. Altapeter. (Some of you work in the medical field so I included the names of the docs).

We saw Dr. Steven Allen today, he's an oncologist, and we feel very relieved by his feeling that he thinks Doug will be fine, that we caught this in time.

So, please say a prayer, have a good thought, for Mr. Doug!!

Thanks!
Love, Anne