Sending prayers for your neice Tina and hugs for you Wiz.

My prayers are with you.

Prayers going up from me as well. Please let us know how she's getting on.

I haven't heard anything more but I'll call Angie on Sunday and see if she has an update. I'm hoping that no news is good news.

I am so sorry this is happening.
But treatments have really progressed, I am hopeful she will get better.
My Uncle just had treatment for advanced esophageal cancer.
He is OK now.
She is young, she will get through it.
Don't worry. Wish well for her, that will help make her better.
I will be thinking of her.

Thanks Isis,

I hope it will be ok. I'll try to find out more tomorrow. I'm thinking that she might have a chance to be in a clinical trial for a new cancer treatment since she went to Chicago. I'll post an update as soon as I hear anything.

Hello,
When I check out this web site it has become a practice to spend some time in quiet meditation and prayer for those in need of divine help. In this family when someone is hurting we all are hurting. God Bless all of you.
Lanny

I am so sorry to hear about your niece Tina. My prayers are with you and your niece as well as her daughter. I hope that she finds the right doctors and treatments. I pray for her to be healthy again.

HUGSSSSSSSSSS and more hugssss for you! Prayers for her already being said, sorry about this, Cancer is so yucky... good luck for her treatment and hoping she will be free of it and on the mend! hugss,sarah

Tina saw the surgeon and he said he's 85% sure the cancer originated on her tongue and that it spread to the lymph node. She'll have surgery in Chicago in a couple of weeks (I don't know the date yet) and he's going to make a large incision behind her ear and go in to remove the growth from her tongue and look at the surrounding area to make sure he gets it all.

I'm hoping and praying it will just be the one spot and he can get it all without doing too much cutting. If it's as he thinks it is, she'll then have a series of radiation treatments afterward. He didn't say anything about chemo that I know of.

One thing I should mention, Tina smoked for many years, but as soon as she found out it was cancer, she quit cold turkey and says it hasn't bothered her. She's so worried though and not sleeping at night, which is understandable.

I'll be going to spend the night next weekend with both nieces and my sister too. We're going to cheer Tina up and bring her some surprises too. She wants to get her Christmas shopping done as well.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers, I appreciate it very much.