
Help Pete beat the crap out of colon cancer!!!!
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Hey everyone. Thanks for coming by and taking the time out of your day to read this. My dad, Pete, is once again, battling colon cancer. We have been doing treatments on and off for the last several years. This last Feb, I started noticing changes in my dads blood work and already had the looming fear that the "C" was back. As the next few months go on, the docs watching his numbers climb and then just explode into chaos. He was given every imaging test possible the end of July. He previously has had over a ft of his colon removed, 27 lymph nodes, appendix and gallbladder removed on top of knee surgery and eye surgery. He had bone loss from the chemo that didn't work initially, and had lasix from going blind from heavy steroids. He had COVID pneumonia and spent a lengthy part of the beginning of 2021, in Emory. We received the worst call on earth, whether we place him on a vent or we let him go. They gave us a chance to let him hear us and say our goodbyes in case he didn't make it. He went from needing 15% oxygen to 100% dependent in mere days. We were lucky and prayed for him heavily. I got him transferred to LTAC downtown where they explained that he may never go home (just gonna say he loved their breakfast----would highly recommend) but if he truly wanted to, he had a chance. Our spirits were lifted and we brought him home. It's been pretty smooth up until Feb for me when I started to panic. Back to July of this year, he is Stage 4 with metastatic to multiple organs. He now has multiple spots on his liver, pancreas, his right adrenal gland and in his lungs. We are now on another path to recovery. Today is his second round of chemo and are hopeful it shrinks everything enough to allow us other options. They have the option to do an ablation, surgery and a Y90 clinical treatment trial. He has been out of work for sometime but still makes time for others. His father, my only living grandparent, was diagnosed yesterday with cancer, another punch in the gut. I would be forever grateful if you could pray for my dad. I believe prayer works and God has the power to heal him but I cant do it alone. I need your help. We need your help. I would love to see my dad get to watch his granddaughters graduate and play their sports and enjoy life the way he taught others to enjoy it. My dad has always been someone who will help you no matter what the case is. Cancer has robbed my dad of being all things to all people. The term remission or cured may never happen, but I'm forever grateful for the time I have with him. Any and all help would be appreciated.







Organizer and beneficiary

Alexis Phelps
Organizer
Bremen, GA
Richard Van Gilder
Beneficiary