Prayer Warriors Update: If you're able to help or share my GoFundMe campaign, I'd be so grateful.

As God always seems to do for me, suddenly there are lots of appointments and decisions to make and weigh.

Here's a quick recap:

1) Jim Greer and I went to Columbia Presbyterian in NYC on Thursday and back in the same day. It was a very long day but so worth it. We met with one of the best colorectal surgeons in the country. I have a small tumor that my doctor in France has just told me he is worried that his treatments would make a hole in my rectum if he were to treat the rectal area tumor with his interventional radiology techniques due to its close location to my rectum. The doctor in NY was very competent and has done thousands of surgeries to try and help cancer patients avoid colostomy bags—even temporary ones. Of course, it will still mean a 5th open abdominal surgery, but there is a very good chance that I would not need any of my rectum resected and an ostomy. Mass General doesn't have the capability to do that yet. I'll most likely be scheduling the surgery very soon.

2) I'm heading to Miami by myself this Monday for an appointment at the University of Miami Medical Center where there is a fairly new center that is just dedicated to the rare form of sarcomas that I keep getting. I'm very excited to find out what possibilities and options they have for possibly slowing down or stopping the cancer from coming back. With the FDA and NIH losing so much funding this past year, this center is a God-send for me. There is a very generous fellow Solitary Fibrous Tumor cancer patient (the same kind of rare sarcoma that I have) who has funded the entire research team and center there.

3) Then I have an appointment at the Cleveland Clinic on 2/10/2026 with another colorectal surgeon because they also have one of the best colorectal surgery centers in the world. It will ease my mind to get a second opinion on the surgery options.

4) I have a couple of new tumors on my liver, but they are small and can be zapped by my favorite Interventional Radiologist at University of Texas Southwest Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas. He's the doctor who killed 12 tumors in my liver in 2019 at Mass General in Boston.

5) I'm on the waiting list for a clinical trial in L.A. using a new drug that boosts a cancer patient's Natural Killer Cells to try and shut off the mechanisms causing the cancer in the first place.

6) I'm in touch with a clinical researcher at a cancer center in Quebec who is using a technology called Radioligand Therapy for carcinomas, but they are opening up their trials to other kinds of cancers in the next month or two. I've been reading medical journal articles about how this therapy has been very promising in Germany and Spain. It is a very targeted nuclear therapy that spares any surrounding tissues from the tumors and has had a near complete response in Solitary Fibrous Tumors (again, the rare sarcomas I have) in three patients in Germany. Unfortunately, Germany will not take non-citizens at this point for the therapy, and the FDA in the U.S. is holding up clinical trials with radioligand therapy right now.

So...here's where I need to ask for some help from all of you good people.

- I have a flight to and from Miami on Monday and Tuesday thanks to two very generous friends and the corporate flight folks who have helped me a few times before.

- I could use help with money for the hotel, an Uber, and food. Jim and I just moved into a house a couple of months ago, and we're starting to catch up from the cost of the move, but it was a necessary move. Our rent in our apartment was once again going up $500/month with no maintenance whatsoever from our old landlord. Thanks to the VA, we were able to purchase a perfect little one-story house with solar panels in Springfield. We couldn't be happier! Thanks in huge part to our friend, Nicole Vadnais Real Estate! She is such an amazing real estate agent and long-time friend. God has been taking care of us.

- The corporate flight folks are working on trying to get me a flight to and from Cleveland for my appointment on 2/10, but that's not definite yet. I could put off the appointment, but I'd feel much better going sooner rather than later to make a decision on where to have the surgery.

Thank you in advance!