Game Plan CHANGE

I can't add much to what Dave wrote about our change in plans. Sure is disappointing and stressful to change plans in mid-stream! We were all set to keep going here and get a BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant), but there has been some changes. Doc Yasenchek said there is too much cancer to go ahead woth a BMT so we have to go back home and Dave will have to have more chemo...one or two treatments and then return here for the BMT.
Well....that's it. Pat. I'll attach the following note from Dave to everyone.......



Well, the league office (Mayo Clinic) made some major changes in our playing
schedule. They have sent us back to training camp for more work with Coach before
we start our season schedule. After the two salvage chemo treatments in Indiana,
there is still too much cancer remaining for a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) to be
effective. Sooooo, it's back to Indiana and at least one, maybe two more rounds of
two-a-day drills (chemo) with Coach. So the BMT has been delayed for several
months. Yippee, we'll get to start the season at the beginning of a Minnesota
winter - sounds great! Pat and I will be returning to Indiana this Fri - don't know
yet when chemo starts, but it will be soon. It's somewhat of a letdown after all
the preparations, but the "Lord's will be done". Thanks for all of your prayers and
support - and keep them coming. Through all this there is some great news - last
Sunday shorty after arriving at the Gift For Life Transplant House here at Mayo, I
was watching Tiger brush over the other golfers at the PGA, and sat next to a fellow
(in his 40's) named Andy. Andy is from North Carolina and has been here for 4.5
months waiting for a heart and liver transplant - both need to come from the same
donor. Well lo & behold, Andy received word late this afternoon that a donor had
been found. The whole house lined up in the hallway as he left and gave him a
rousing sendoff to the hospital. His surgery is scheduled for 7am in the morning.
The Lord works in strange ways. Maybe I can get a few more rounds of golf in before
the snow flies. See ya.
Dave