Most of you may have heard that we are going to create a  fundraiser for my brother, Ricky Dixon, who is battling his fourth round of oral/mouth cancer. He was first diagnosed in September 2012 and underwent 36 rounds of radiation and was clear of cancer until July of 2019.  At that time they had to remove part of his tongue, salivary glands and lymph nodes from the right side.   He was clear of cancer until March 2020. In March the cancer came back and he had to undergo major surgery, a team of doctors had to take the muscle and vein from his forearm to reconstruct his tongue, take a skin graph from the top of his leg to cover where they had  taken out the muscle, pulled 4 of his back teeth and shaved his jaw bone. We had hope again, but in July of 2020 the cancer showed up again,  very aggressively in his right jaw and we were told that surgery was not an option anymore.  We were very scared and thought we needed a second opinion.  We had alots of friends and family tell us many  good things about MD Anderson in Houston, Texas. At that time our boss gave me a name of a friend of his, Laura Heatherly, that works for the TJ Martell Foundation.  She was very helpful in getting us into MD Anderson. We had appointments within the week. Also 2 of our best friends just so happened to live in the Houston area and offered us a place to stay and offered to drive us back and forth to the hospital and to his appointments. Things were just falling into place and we knew at that time this was where we needed to go.  When we arrived in Texas we ended up having to stay 3 weeks to have all the necessary testing and had to see numerous doctors. They all pulled together and decided to try chemo which he had never had. The plan was to have 4 and as many as 6 treatments every three weeks. After treatment #2 they said they should see improvements so on the beginning of treatment #3 a CT scan was done, but we didn’t get the news we wanted.  The tumor had grown and he even had more lesions. The doctors immediately stopped the chemo treatment that was scheduled that day and said we are going to change the treatment to Cetuximab Immunotherapy because this type of cancer has shown to be very aggressive and we were going to have to trick it.  These new  treatments have to be done every 2 weeks and every sixth week which means there will be lots of trips to Houston, Texas. This is just a very short story about what is going on with my Brother.  We greatly appreciate everyone’s thoughts and prayers. We will keep you updated after every treatment and let you know how Ricky’s journey progresses.