
Support Scott's Battle Against Stage 4 Cancer
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For those that don't know me my name is Amy. I am Tracy's sister and Scott's sister in law. As many of you know Scott has been fighting cancer for over a year now. This past summer everyone thought he beat it and was on the road to recovery until he recently started to feel ill again and unfortunately it was discovered his cancer returned with a vengeance. Scott is currently back in the hospital and on antibiotics again for an infection. All money raised will go to help Tracy and Scott with monthly living expenses and hospital bills. With Scott being unable to work as much as he would like and an unknown future they could use a little help.
For those who have not seen Tracy's Facebook post I have included it below with the details of his current fight with cancer.
Long post ahead....so Scott had a good couple months & was feeling back to "normal"! About mid September he started having some left side pain. Dialysis did a culture and he had an infection in his belly lining. Treated it with meds, but still having problems. Oct 1 his kidney dr sent him for a CT to see if he might have fluid overload or some in his lower left lung. It came back with no fluid overload but a couple big tumors. Like 4" size. A couple days later we had a video call with the cancer dr. He said cause it came back so fast & with the size and area it's stage 4. He can't do chemo infusions like he did before. He started him on a chemo pill. He does 5 days of meds & 3 weeks off. First round went good. Last Tuesday we went up to mayo for 2nd opinion. He explained everything a bit more than his dr here. But he said the treatment he's getting here is the same he would do. The mayo dr said after 2nd round of meds a pet scan will be done to see if any shrinking. Then 2 more rounds, pet scan and 2 more rounds & pet scan. IF its shrunk enough they can do surgery & try to remove. And if can remove then radiation. His tumors are on both sides of abdomen. One goes into his pelvis area & both are pushing on other organs & intertwined with part of his colon. This morning we had an appointment with palliative care about helping with pain management, eating, etc. He's lost a lot of weight the last month due to not eating. Yesterday was his first day back to work in a month. We have unfortunately just had only my income the last month. We are hoping that with the meds from palliative care will help with pain, etc & he can work more.
Organizer and beneficiary
Amy Benson
Organizer
Urbana, IA
Tracy Beauregard
Beneficiary