[nfb-talk] Asking for prayers

Sherri flmom2006 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 02:35:59 UTC 2010


Hi Joseph,

My thoughts and prayers are with you. Sorry you have to miss convention, but 
sounds like this was caught pretty early. Please keep us informed.
Sherri from Orlando
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Oregon mailing list" <nfb-or at nfbnet.org>; <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 5:00 AM
Subject: [nfb-talk] Asking for prayers


> Hi everyone,
>
> Word's already circulating to some extent, but I wanted to wait until they 
> had done some tests so we know what we're dealing with.
>
> I won't be attending national convention this year, because I found out on 
> 6/21 that I have an unusual cancer called a sarcoma.  Being me, it would 
> figure that this particular cancer is quite rare, even among other 
> sarcomas.  The good news is that there is no metastasis (spreading to 
> other organs) which is one of those things that cause them to start giving 
> you survival statistics.
>
> The other bit of good news is that being the rare sort of cancer that it 
> is, it's located in fat tissue.  Even though it's a 7 cm tumor of what 
> they call intermediate grade, because it hasn't spread it's not the kind 
> of thing that would become life-threatening with modern cancer treatment.
>
> Being in fat tissue, obviously there will be surgery to remove the tumor 
> and some surrounding healthy fat tissue.  There will probably be radiation 
> and a pretty good chance of chemotherapy as well.  People react to these 
> differently, but aside from my weight I'm actually very healthy, which 
> works in my favor.  (I did of course suggest that the doctors could remove 
> extra fat tissue during the surgery, you know, just to make sure they got 
> it all!)
>
> The question remaining is what order do we do the things that we are 
> likely to do?  Emerging research says that chemo before surgery might give 
> me a lower chance of recurrence in the future, but the chance might 
> already be so low that giving me some relief might be in order.
>
> I see a medical oncologist tomorrow after OHSU's sarcoma conference meets 
> to discuss cases like mine.  My surgical oncologist has already consulted 
> at least one other sarcoma specialist from Baltimore.  So really, I have a 
> team of experts in this kind of cancer treating me, and they are 
> consulting with other teams.
>
> Even so, this is pretty serious, so I welcome your prayers.  I'll miss you 
> guys (and the wardrobe update of blindness-related T-shirts of course! 
> *grin*
>
> Joseph
>
>
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