Round four of the 6 round bout of chemo took place a couple weeks ago. As has been the case throughout treatment; during the few days of chemo, Jesse is not doing much. He laid around on the couch and watched his beloved Hawkeyes win another football game. The chemicals are tough on the body. During treatment, he's pretty down and dragging.
Things turn around pretty quickly in the 3 weeks between treatments. Jesse is himself. According to Andrea, "He's the same person he's always been when not on the pills." He's the same old caring, fun-loving Jesse that we all know and love.
Kalen, (his 7 year old son) has started flag football, and he wants to be the star QB. Dad (aka Jesse) is a proud papa and has been working hard with Kalen in the backyard. He says Kalen has a pretty good arm on him.
So, how about the prognosis, you ask? Well, only time will tell at this point. The doctors have said that they won't know much until after all of the chemo treatments. My assumption is that they will do another MRI at that time to see how things are going.
That's all we have for now. We're busy making final preperations for the Jesse Haworth Benefit Pancake Breakfast, on October 2nd, 2010 from 8am - noon at the Meredith Drive Reformed Church in Des Moines, IA. I hope you all will be able to attend and help us raise money to cover Jesse's medical bills. As I'm sure many of you have been touched by cancer already, the medical bills can really start to pile on.
Have a good weekend.....and check out our flyer! And check out the awesome Raffle and Auction Prizes!!
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