Pictures

Ryan and Ashley

University of Michigan Hospital (this place is gigantic!!!!)

U of M Hospital Campus

Kolby sporting Gramas sunglasses

Update

Holy cow . . . this place is ginormous. The hallways are like rush hour traffic!

Saw the oncologist this morning at University of Michigan. He has ordered additional test and scans, and we will see the radiation oncologist in the morning. They have decided that they will order mitotane chemotherapy, and 5 weeks of daily radiation. The radiation oncologist will be able to tell us more details on the radiation after we see him tomorrow. The treatment plan is all pending on the results of clear scans that we will have done tonight and tomorrow (which we all know we be CLEAR!!!) :):)
I will update more when we have more details.

p.s.
yes it is snwoing here today, but its actually not that cold!

Just Landed in Salt Lake City, UT

We have a layover until 1:30. So far our flights have been on time. It's snowing in Salt Lake-hopefully our flight will go out on time! :)

Michigan Update

We will be flying out for University of Michigan Sunday at 8am. We will spend the week there.
Tuesday we see the Adrenal Cancer specialist, and we know that we will see the Radiation Oncologist on Friday. Other than these, we are not sure yet what they will do.
I will keep you all posted throughout the week.
Love you all!

University of Michigan Cancer Treatment Center

Michigan it is. We will be seeing a specialist by the name of Dr Hammer. He is well known and serves most of the adrenal cancer patients in the US. In order to get an appointment with the UofM, they have to have all of your radiology films, and 10 pathology slides of the tumor. THIS HAS BEEN FUN.
To make a really long story short- we just got back from sending all of these out overnight by Fed Ex, so they will have them at the University tomorrow morning. The coordinator for Dr Hammer will call us tomorrow with the exact date and time of our appointments. It is looking like we will fly out Monday morning.

No news yet, we should know more in the morning!

Oncology Appointment

We saw the Ocologist today. Ryan's scans came out negative-no sign of the cancer spreading to other organs. Since he has not treated this type of cancer, he wants us to go to a large University to see an Oncologist. Its looks as though we will either be going to the University of Michigan, or MD Anderson in Texas. We will be hearing back from him in the next hour to let us know where we will be heading. He said that we will be going soon, since time is of the essence.

Ryan is healing great, and has been such a pillar of strength. God works wonders and we are confident that Ryan will set history as being "cured" of this rare type of cancer. We are so thankful that we have all of you to lean on during this difficult time.

From our entire family to yours, we thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.