When it rains it pours, Poor Landon
September 21, 2007 by Heather
Wow, what a week. We have been working hard insulating and sheetrocking our new office, running kids to preschool and kindergarten and trying to help some close friends who are having problems. Then we find out that my little brother Landon who is 11 years old has bone cancer. WHAT A SHOCKER. Adam came out of his office after talking on the phone with my parents and asked "Are we ready to be strong?"
That didn't bode well. I was kind of thinking I was already being strong for people. Landon has been limping for a couple months but we were shocked when a knee specialist said he thought it was bone cancer. My parents have been at Primary Children's from Tuesday to late Thursday and we found out for sure yesterday (Thursday) that the knee tumor is in fact cancerous. It's officially called:
The Doctors and staff made my parents feel very at peace with it. They say it is very treatable and it doesn't seem to have spread to the surrounding bone or effected his lungs or other common occurances. He will have to do Chemotherapy every 3 weeks at Primary Children's for a year and thus he'll have those side effects and can't be around sick people or stressful situations. He starts chemo on Tue, Sept. 25.
The hardest part of this for my parents is reliving it every time someone calls or asks so in order to lessen that discomfort Adam set up a blog just like this one for them on my Dad's stock photography domain. The address is:
This way everyone can know how it's going without putting my mom on an emotional roller coaster everyday.
On behalf of my family THANK YOU so much for the prayers and fasting and various other help it has really made this ordeal seem bearable. We know we're not alone in this and that is a great feeling in a less than great situation.
You're awesome!
Heather
Your Comments
- Alana Butikofer made this comment on October 11, 2007
Heather,
I have Cody Holley in my class at school right now and he just told me about Landon and this web site. Your own family web site and his web site are just beautiful. You and your husband have done a wonderful job on that. I just wanted to let you and your family know that I feel so bad about Landon and his medical condition. I will pray for him and you all. I hope your mom is dong okay and I would like to visit with her sometime soon. Please send my love to all of your family. - Natalie Wheeler made this comment on September 23, 2007
Poor little guy. Tell Landon to hang in there. Things will be a lot brighter after 1 years time. We love you guys. You're in our thoughts and prayers. - Sterling made this comment on September 22, 2007
Thank you for keeping us informed. Prayer and fasting has done a lot for our family's health in the past. We'll be doing what we can through that. - vaughn Quinn made this comment on September 21, 2007
Our thoughts and prayers are with Landon and your family, hope the treatments go well. - Christine Quinn made this comment on September 21, 2007
What a great idea this is! Thank you for keeping us in touch with everyone.
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