As many of you know, there was good news on the colon cancer front today. It appears that I will be heading for liver resection surgery at the end of July or the beginning of August. The surgeon expects to remove about 90% of my tumors while taking about 50% of my liver.
Thanks to our Creator for making us with regenerative livers! After my liver regrows, we will revisit my status to see if a stage 2 resection of the remaining 10% of the tumors make sense.
Interesting liver resection fact #1: They don't just take out the area where the tumors are now...they take out the areas where the tumors showed at diagnosis. So while I have shrunk the number of tumors and the volume of remaining tumors by half (thanks to God, prayers, chemo, diet, visualization and good fortune), they still take out the chunks that used to have tumors there.
Interesting liver resection fact #2: They'll also be taking out my gall bladder at the same time.
Interesting liver resection fact #3: (For those who've had hemocolectomies, stomach resections and/or been at bedside for people who have)--NO TUBE DOWN THE THROAT! Yaay!
So...now to what I'm asking YOU to do. One of the sites that I find most useful in this fight (C3--Colorectal Cancer Coalition)...and coincidentally the site where I first ran across my second opinion doctor, Heinz-Josef Lenz, is part of a contest to receive a $25,000 grant to upgrade their social media capabilities.
I'm asking folks to support this by voting for C3 to receive the funds for two reasons:
1. Colon cancer is the 3rd most common form of cancer, yet it lags behind in awareness by a significant degree other forms of cancer (breast, lung, prostate to name a few...heck, since Ruth Ginsberg and Patrick Swayze are both fighting it, we probably lag behind pancreatic cancer in awareness).
2. Colon cancer is highly preventable if caught early, during screenings. Social media will be critical to getting younger folks (20-40) to recognize symptoms that could lead to screenings and save their lives...literally.
So please click on the link below to C3 help get the word out. If you twitter or have a Facebook account, there are other ways to help, listed below.
§If you haven’t voted for C3 yet, do it. Now. Click this link, fill in your email address and submit. MindComet will only use your email address to make sure all votes are unique.
§If you have a Twitter account, then copy/paste this message into a tweet and post. Each tweet counts as an additional vote (only the first tweet counts, no ballot stuffing).
RT to help Colorectal Cancer Coalition Inc. win a 25K social media makeover http://ow.ly/4pcs @CommuniCause #cause2455
§Post about this to your Facebook wall, including this link which will automatically fill in our organization name: http://www.communicause.com/2455. Your friends and family probably already know that colorectal cancer matters to you. Let them know that their support of this campaign is important to you too.
Thanks y'all!
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