Updates on Mark, a young man who was told in 2005 that he had advanced esophageal cancer with metastasis to the liver and 3 months max to live. With no insurance, limited access to health care, Mark quickly moved from Saipan (where he was working in a hospital) to Bangkok, Thailand for treatment. His esophageal tumor disappeared with radiation and chemotherapy. He had surgery to remove an unrelated kidney cancer. Unfortunately, Mark died cancer-free in 2017, of unrelated septicemia.
April 24, 2011
Mark Celebrated His 6th Birthday Since Prognosis of 3 Months or Less to Live
Mark celebrated his birthday by going to one of the many food trailers in Austin to have some tacos. He is wearing the birthday glasses I bought in Thailand. The glasses play the Happy Birthday song and the candles have lights that flash off and on. Mark wasn't too keen on posing with the glasses but being a good sport he let me get a picture of him with the glasses. Mark has been raising a vegetable garden on our decks and keeping the pool clean which has been no easy feat during the time the live oak trees over the pool loose their leaves. He will soon go back to Thailand and we will miss him.
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My English is not the best, but I will try to write some sentences.
Your blog ist giving us very much power.
why?
My husband is ill of colon cancer. The metas of liver are going to leave his body. We hope this because my husband will live.
The chemotherapy with Erbitux is our hope.
Your actual foto, snapshot with the six candels on your bicycle ....
a very good idea!
We send you the best wishings from the other side of our world from Germany.
Friderike and my husband Volker
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