March 27,2007

Hi, Steve's dad reporting again.

Yesterday was a major milestone for Steve. He completed the full throat radiation and now proceeds to radiation for the specific tumors. Starting today, he has 10 days of radiation left. He completed the 1st of those last ten this morning and now has only 9 more to go.

Steve's weight has been going down since all of this started and the doctors decided today to stop the radiation for the rest of this week to allow Steve the time to relax, as best as he can under the circumstances, and also to try and gain some weight back. Steve's wonderful wife will continue to feed him the major amount of his needed calories through the tube, in addition to some of the calories Steve is still taking orally.

Next Monday, we hope to restart the last nine days of radiation.

Your thoughts, prayers, and cards are greatly appreciated by Steve and his entire family.

March 25, 2007

Hi, this is Steve's dad making this post today. Steve has been very successful the past two weeks and has completed all 10 of his radiation treatments. We are now down to the last two weeks and the chemo and radiation is starting to take its toll. The doctors told Steve these last two weeks would be the worst and they are shaping up just that way. Steve won't be making any posts for a few weeks, however, I will try to make a few entries to keep everyone informed as to his progress.

Everyone in Steve's family continues to thank you all for your concerns, notes, and prayers. All of your thoughts are so greatly appreciated and extremely helpful, not only to Steve, but to all of us.