God has blessed our family:
Micheal lived through the liver biopsy. His liver started bleeding and would not stop. They gave him 2 blood transfusions during the operation and then had to tilt the bed down so blood would go to Michaels head. They had to pack the liver in ice just to get it to stop bleeding. He gain 10 pounds of fluid from the operation. So that added more pressure on a already cramped body.
The doctors believed that Michael would never start his 2nd round of chemo on time but he recovered and his immunity came back, so he started on the planned started date.
Michael's stomach after the operation was 66cm and in just one month went down to 50cm. Not only that his stomach soften now so much you can hardly feel his liver.
Michael's liver that was swollen so much from the tumor, it went from the right to the left side of the body and below the belly button. (the liver is suppose to be under the right rib cage) It has now reduced in size, has become much softer, and is now on the right side and above the belly button.
Amazing Michael still has his hair.
Because his tumor in the liver has shrunk so much, Michael does not require oxygen anymore.
Michael's liver cancer number cell number was lover for the size of the tumor, so doctors thought it would not respond well to treatment. Past cases have not. The first cancer number was 66,000 and the week of May 3 it had dropped to 32,000. Then only one week on chemo it dropped again to 12,800. The second week of chemo it dropped to 649. They did not check it and for one month, but when they did it was 97. Just last week it dropped down to 59. The doctors said that they could not account for chemo dropping the first two times. Thanks for the prayers.
The chemo has not affected Michael's heart.
The MRI and CT scan showed no new growth. The best part is that the cancer in the lungs has shrunk and some are gone. The cancer in the liver has reduced in size a good 20-30% and what is left has the beginnings of holes in it. That means that it is dying.
Michael has begun to eat on his own again and Saturday, May 12th ate a 6” chocolate chip pancake and even had some of his mom's. His favorite thing to eat is cheese slices.
We were told it would take longer for Michael's body to recover, but his immunity this cycle has already started to recover and if his kidneys are OK he will start round #4 of chemo on time.
Michael has finally started smiling and laughing again. He has even started to say more words, even tho he has lost some of his hearing in both ears.
Prayers of so many people, churches of many different denominations. What a wonderful Godly support team. Our goal is reach out to the world to pray for Michael. We have many of the states in the US (like Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona, California, Oregon, Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Pennsylvania) . The countries that we have currently is: Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Europe, China, South Korea, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada