Another Round of Chemo

News from Brandon's Dad, on Brandon's progress. Thank you so much for your prayers and contributions...


We're home again. We finished up another round of chemo the other day and came back home. It was one of the rare short trips this time. We were only up there a few days.

This trip included an appointment with Brandon's surgeon. The surgeon took a look at all of Brandon's scans & x-rays and said that Brandon's response to treatment thus far is "phenomenal" - he has responded better than expected to treatment, which will make the surgery easier. During surgery they plan to remove a lot of Brandon's fibula bone. Before, they were going to remove the entire bone, but since he's responding so well to treatment, they're going to leave part of the top and part of the bottom of his bone. So, this is good news! We thank you all for the prayers, they are certainly helping.


Although this is good news, we're still not even half way to the end of this. We have a long road ahead of us. We need all of your prayers again for the surgery. There is a major nerve that runs down the leg from the fibula, called the poreneal nerve, which when cut, damaged, or removed, leaves the patient with "drop foot". They are numb on the top of that foot, and do not have the ability to lift that foot. It would then drag behind when the patient walks. We are praying that this does not happen to Brandon. He would like to exercise and play sports some time in the future. We absolutely Know, with all of our hearts, that with everyone's prayers, Brandon will come out of this surgery without nerve damage. Please pray with us, pray for the doctors.


We will be continuing with chemotherapy, as planned, through May of 2009. We aren't even so sure that everything will be complete by that time. There will be follow up doctor appointments, so we don't expect May to be the end of our road.

We've put a Donation button on Brandon's website:
http://www.brandonsfight.com/

...and we hope you will all pass that web address (maybe along with your thoughts) onto your email lists, to give everyone the chance to be blessed by helping & blessing our family during this financially impossible time.

We've had some friend-of-a-friend type people pass our website around, and we've actually had about 15 perfect strangers donate anywhere from $10 to $50 through our website.

We have been surprised that there were so many good people out there, people who don't even know us, people with no money themselves really, have written us and donated small amounts. We have felt blessed by their efforts, and I pray they will be blessed for their kindness to our family.

Thank you again to those of you who have helped, you know who you are, and our family thanks you for your generosity this Christmas Holiday season! We can't thank you enough. Any amount helps! :)

We'll update you all again soon,
Thank again for your prayers.
Love The Hammett family