Update as of Wednesday, August 25th

Kandi and I have been struggling with the decision of which direction we wanted to go in. We were told that once a facility begins treatment, you are stuck with them, that nobody wants to go behind someone else for treatment, so we are praying to God to point us in the right direction. I had a Doctor’s appointment with a local oncologist that will handle my chemotherapy. We discussed our thoughts with him, and he gave us some great advice. His advice was to pursue Duke University. We were scheduled to fly out on Sunday to Tulsa. That, in his opinion, would not be the best course. He explained that I will go to Duke to be evaluated, and then return home for initial treatment in strict accordance to Dr Friedman’s (Duke University) instructions. Now I don’t have to worry about the financial burden of finding a place to stay. They (the local oncologists) will report any and everything back to Dr Friedman at Duke, and work together to make sure that I get the best treatment possible. By going this route, the doctors will continue to track any re-growth of the tumor through continuous MRIs to look for signs of the treatment is not working, at which point I will go back to Duke to begin a more in-depth treatment, and if they start a new trial then I would be asked to participate.