Update from Sassy
Copied from the horn site which was a post on her Facebook page.
I am sorry for laying this on you guys, but you're like family and I'm feeling rather lost~
This is my post from my facebook page~
A call for prayers~
Don went into the hospital on Friday due to very weak legs. He has been in excruciating pain since the end of May. He was getting weaker and weaker and we assumed it was due to the chemo-treatments.
After the last chemo session (last Thurs) the radiologist was very concerned and said that this was in no way, shape or form from the treatments and he needed to get with his oncologist. The oncologist said Don needed to get to the hospital as the weak/numb legs were VERY worrisome.
So on Friday he went in. They ordered an MRI, which didn't get done until last night and it pained Don greatly. The consensus before the MRI was a deteriorated section of the spine that might be treated with a heavy-dose radiation for 5 days or if it was a tumor, surgery. The one oncologist made it abundantly clear that an impact could break Dons spine, leaving him paralyzed.
They started the radiation therapy then took him back to his room. Well, he just called and said they want to take him to Flagstaff for surgery. They wanted to go tonight, but he said absolutely not! As he needed to work things out with the girls and me.
So he is going to Flagstaff in the morning for surgery. he is going alone as I can't leave the girls (well, Kasey) alone. I thought of pulling them out of school(s) & work and just heading over there, but what am I to do with Bosco? And where could we stay and how in the heck am I going to pay for said hotel room & gas and......well......I'm offering it up to God here. I have to trust in him to see us through yet another ordeal. I have leaned heavily on Aunt Irene and her sage advice has helped me cope.
Now I am calling on all of you in one way or another.
Please continue to keep Don and us in your prayers.
Linda~could you let David & Mary know. Maybe David could give Don a call.....just to try to lift spirits. I will message you the #. Just warn David that Don is exhausted and very short tempered.....rightly so~
Lori~I love how much you have helped me through this past weekend. Please don't stop!! mad-love for ya girlfriend.
That is enough for now as I've got to make something for dinner for Kasey, wait for Emma to get home from school/work then we will head over to the hospital.
I am trying to remain strong through all of this but I am terrified.
The love of family & friends is so very important to the entire Hunt family.
I've held out telling people until we knew more.....now we know.
Read more: http://vikinghorn.proboards.com/thread/7656/burden-all-update-on-don#ixzz5RSXsN0Ys
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
Thanks Jimmy.
Everyone send thoughts and prayer if nothing else.
I'm very sorry to hear that, best wishes go out to Sass and her family. :(
A very difficult situation, I wish her and her family the best and to find the strength to get to the other side.
Prayers for Don and Sassy and the family, asking the Lord to give them all strength and courage. Praying for healing for Don.
Thanks for the update, Jimmy. Thoughts of strength and best wishes sent your way, Sass. Very tough news, so sorry.
Ugh I know this has been a long ordeal for their family. Thinking about them today.
Very sad to hear things like this happening to good people. Prayers and well wishes to Sassy and especially to Don.
I am wishing them all the best. Sending love, light, positive and healing vibes. May they all find the strength to continue to fight and trust and believe in the powers above and beyond us all.
A little more background on what they're going through:http://vikinghorn.proboards.com/thread/7599/chaos-reigns-supreme
There is a gofundme link for anybody interested in helping out in the thread that Jimmy posted:http://vikinghorn.proboards.com/thread/7656/burden-all-update-on-don?page=1
Thoughts and prayers.
She, Don and family are in my prayers nightly. Miss her on this board. :(
Thanks for the update, so sad
Seems not that long ago the biggest problem they had on a Sunday was how many wings to make for the company they invited over, some like me, a transplanted Viking
Good folk, salt of the earth
I thought I had this posteD yesterday but it must have not stuck.
Here's a link to a Gofundme
Another update from facebook~
Just hung up with Don in Flagstaff. It is amazing what a good nurse, along with the proper drug(s) will do for one's outlook!!!
He is scheduled for surgery tomorrow afternoon. The surgeon went in depth with all that would take place. Dr. Hall will remove as much of the tumor (yes there is a tumor) as he can without further damaging the spine, then bridge the two vertebrae directly above and the 2 directly below the deteriorated discs. Then in two weeks time he will get radiation therapy.
Don is aware that he has a very uphill battle ahead of him and that his time on earth is limited, but if things go well......he'll be around to see Kasey graduate and catch a few monster small-mouth bass and the like. Heck.....if things go really well, maybe we can all, as a family, head down to Tucson in December for Emma's deer hunt & Christmas with his family. Something I was fearful about just yesterday. Fingers crossed!!!
I had planned on taking the girls to Flagstaff on Friday to see him, but he is adamant that we wait until he is ready to come home so he doesn't have to endure another ambulance ride for 3 hours.
Again he was in good spirits and that is the first time I've heard that in a while.....well except of course for when Bosco came to visit!!
So you are now as up to date as I am.
This part is not on facebook.....he told me that Dr. Hall figures a year or less. And Don is terrified.....I am relieved because I didn't think I'd have him around after this weekend with as bad as he was/is. So.....while not a set in stone timeline, it's the first time a doctor has given his 'estimate'~
Shoot, they're a great family and great Viking fans. Thoughts and prayers go out to them. Cancer can suck it, it ruins so many lives.
Purp1eOne has opened up the VikingHorn Board to guests if you'd like to leave a well wish message within the thread. I know she has a lot of friends that are still over here. Sassy has been pretty good at keeping us informed (and venting....as only Sassy can do...lol).
http://vikinghorn.proboards.com/thread/7656/burden-all-update-on-don
As Jimmy said, we also started a GoFundMe campaign. Please give it some consideration. Every little bit helps. Thanks in advance.
We keep them in our family prayers as well. I hate cancer.
Glad Don has turned a corner, at least for a time. Hard to even imagine being in her shoes, but I do know from experience that the not knowing is very hard.
Sassy, sending you and your family a lot of love and prayers.
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