So Mike had surgery the day after saint Patrick's day for a blood clot/burst vein removal. The surgery went ok, the doctor said it didn't look quite right and he sent it off to pathology- He said he doesn't normally send them off to pathology but he did because his gut said it looked weird.

Just over a week later on March 30th mike received the phone call that absolutely no one wants to receive- it was cancer. But because we have to be special- its a rare cancer. A Triton tumor. Within the following hours of that day we had 3 doctors appointments and 2 procedures scheduled for the following week. We met with Medical oncology, radiation oncology and surgical oncology in warrenville. Mike also had a MRI and a CT scan done. He was scheduled for a PET scan at the appointment, and had it done last week . He was also set up with genetic testing.

He has a condition called neurofibromatosis 1. Which means his body makes tumors that are usually benign. Brantley will have a 50/50 chance of also having this condition and will need to be tested.

The radiologist is concerned about his pelvis and his prostate- both areas that lit up on the pet scan in addition to where he had surgery on his right calf as all the tumor was not removed.

He got a biopsy done of his pelvis, to which it was confirmed to have spread. he had 3 days of high dose radiation there. and then weeks of radiation on his calf, monday through friday, that started in May and will end in july.

We don't like asking for help- but it takes a village.