Dear Friends and Family-
Just wanted to let you know that I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in early June and have spent the last few weeks since then doing the research (with the the help of my amazing cousins, Drs. Alan and Michael Moskowitz) to assemble the best possible medical team and treatment plan to battle this disease. I will be having surgery up in San Francisco at UCSF Medical Center. My cousins' were able to connect me with one of the leading colorectal surgeons on the West Coast, Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar who will be doing my surgery sometime at the end of Aug. or in Sept.(tba) I will be starting pre-surgery chemoradiation down in Santa Cruz on July 7th supervised by oncologist Mike Wu and radiologist, Jay Meisel. I have quickly established a good relationship with both and feel secure in their hands.
I'm thankful for all the love and support that I'm getting from my family and friends-grateful that I have Toby(daughter) and Jade (granddaughter)now living with me(as of April) to keep me company through this difficult period .I would very much welcome any messages that you care to send me through this blog. I'll try to answer them as I can and keep this blog updated with current news and thoughts.
All my love, Ivan
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Hi Ivan,
Sorry I missed your call today. Just wanted to let you know your post is very informative and that it works. Yes, you will be able to edit posts through the blogger.com site. If you have any questions, just let me know. You should also get emails for new comments like this so you don't have to go on the WRDuo or Blogger.com site to see the latest updates. If you don't get an email from this, let me know and I'll check the settings. Also, if you want to set it up to email certain people everytime YOU post, you can add up to 10 email address in the "Settings" section on the "Dashboard" page under "Email."
I heard about this cancer blog on NPR a few days ago. You might be interested in it.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/mycancer/
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Best,
Dale
Great idea. I'm glad the plan has taken shape. Please feel free to include me in the 10 automatic notifications that Dale referred to- and I could then forward them to the Men's Group.
Chesluk
Dear Ivan:
So sorry to hear of your haelth travails, but wanted to offer our very best wishes fort a speedy recovery/surgery. It looks like you have a good team on board too. Rest assured that the Trimble's are
keeping you in our thoughts and prayers.
Bill, Fabia, Scott and Demian
Hi Ivan,
Just checked into your blog and was so happy to read how well you are doing. Keep up all the great activities you have been doing and good luck with getting through the therapies so very well. Your great attitude will give you an Olympic Gold in this fight!
Love to you,
Joann
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