Steve’s Story

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The last several days have been up and down. Pain in varying degrees at night. The doctors warned Steve that there would be due to the effect of the radiation on the tumor, so this is good and bad. Good because the radiation is having some effect. Bad because he is in pain, sometime bad enough to prevent sleep. You wish there was something you could do…but there isn’t, so you feed frustrated and helpless. Now we are waiting on the results of the last PET scan to see how things are going. Steve is still planning to be with us for the KOA Pro/Am Jam. (more…)

Big thanks to Steve’s former co-workers at North Bay Landscape. They took up a collection and sent him a box of bucks! <–more–>I know he hated leaving that job. It’s hard to leave when you like the people you work with. So thank you guys!

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Today is Steve’s re-evaluation. They will evaluate the results from the previous radiation and chemotherapy rounds and decide what to do from here. Presently, tomorrow, Wednesday, is scheduled to be the last of the current round of radiation. He should have a period of rest now. He seems to be feeling ok, none of the horrendous side effects he had with the first chemotherapy attempt. He is tired, understandably, from the radiation, but he seems to be eating a bit better. Still some problems sleeping at night thought. He has to use the Morphine Sulphate at night for the discomfort. We will see what they say at today’s re-evaluation.

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Steve’s brother has been visiting which perked his spirits up a bit. They went to a Shark’s game over the weekend and this was also the World’s Greatest Disc Golf weekend so they dropped by Stafford Lake. Pleased to say, the weekend made cash. We also received a promise of some hard-to-find and/or collector’s discs to auction off to help Steve. The auction is scheduled to take place at the KOA Pro/Am Jam tournament held on June 7th and 8th in Willits. The auction will be held on the evening of Saturday, June 7th. The drawing and trophies will be awarded on Sunday evening, the 8th. We already have quite a bit of material, some of it dating from the early days of disc golf. We just have to determine minimum bids and get the stuff sorted and marked.

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