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My friend Mark, who has cancer, is in the hospital. From what I've been told, his digestive system is shutting down. Please, keep him in your thoughts and prayers, he needs all he can get now.
Here's a little snipet from an article that the local paper did in January about him.
Mark Edmondson
On Nov. 26, readers were touched by the story of Mark Edmondson, an Everett High School junior who'd been diagnosed with an aggressive mouth cancer.
He'd had oral and facial surgery at Seattle's Swedish Medical Center. He and his mother, Stephanie Edmondson, were awaiting word on whether the cancer had spread.
On Dec. 7, they learned bad news. "Mark's cancer got into his bone marrow. It was a T4 tumor, a very bad one," Stephanie Edmondson said Thursday.
He started chemotherapy at Swedish hospital Dec. 18. "He has eight days of chemo every 21 days. The first three days, he stays in the hospital," she said. His chemotherapy includes three drugs; he comes home with a pump for part of the treatment.
After the 21-day cycles are repeated four times, he'll undergo seven to nine weeks of radiation, five days each week.
"They're trying to do everything they can," said Stephanie Edmondson, who called the treatment "a double-edged sword." Meant to attack cancer, it also causes nausea and painful spasms in Mark's esophagus.
Stephanie Edmondson is grateful to all who contributed at an auction for Mark. The $9,000 raised "is a little buffer from disaster," she said.
"He's still trying to be really positive," she said of Mark, who just turned 17. "We need all the prayer we can get."
For the last 2 weeks he's been on a feeding tube and hasn't been able to speak. I want to go and see him, but i've got a cold that won't go away and I don't want to make him any sicker than he has been. I'm scared, because I have a feeling that this is the turning point. Either he'll make it, or he won't, and it scares me.
Please, pray for him, and his family. Thanks.
Here's a little snipet from an article that the local paper did in January about him.
Mark Edmondson
On Nov. 26, readers were touched by the story of Mark Edmondson, an Everett High School junior who'd been diagnosed with an aggressive mouth cancer.
He'd had oral and facial surgery at Seattle's Swedish Medical Center. He and his mother, Stephanie Edmondson, were awaiting word on whether the cancer had spread.
On Dec. 7, they learned bad news. "Mark's cancer got into his bone marrow. It was a T4 tumor, a very bad one," Stephanie Edmondson said Thursday.
He started chemotherapy at Swedish hospital Dec. 18. "He has eight days of chemo every 21 days. The first three days, he stays in the hospital," she said. His chemotherapy includes three drugs; he comes home with a pump for part of the treatment.
After the 21-day cycles are repeated four times, he'll undergo seven to nine weeks of radiation, five days each week.
"They're trying to do everything they can," said Stephanie Edmondson, who called the treatment "a double-edged sword." Meant to attack cancer, it also causes nausea and painful spasms in Mark's esophagus.
Stephanie Edmondson is grateful to all who contributed at an auction for Mark. The $9,000 raised "is a little buffer from disaster," she said.
"He's still trying to be really positive," she said of Mark, who just turned 17. "We need all the prayer we can get."
For the last 2 weeks he's been on a feeding tube and hasn't been able to speak. I want to go and see him, but i've got a cold that won't go away and I don't want to make him any sicker than he has been. I'm scared, because I have a feeling that this is the turning point. Either he'll make it, or he won't, and it scares me.
Please, pray for him, and his family. Thanks.
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Went and saw him today, and he was awake, and talkative, which was good, because the anit nausea meds they gave him would knock him out as well. So we went at a good time.
