Jasons' Journey

  1. RPLND scar after five and a half years.

  2. Notes left after midnight.

  3. At some point even the mom's have to sleep. Nancy tried to rest when Jason slept.

  4. It took between 5-6 hours for an infusion cycle to be completed. He often just sat in a daze.

  5. Jason getting a very close trim from his best friend Ryan.

  6. The doors to the operating room where Dr. Sheinfeld will perform an RPLND are 10 feet in front of Jason. His last words to me before the operation...

  7. Jason like so many young men simply wants to put the whole cancer experiance behind them. As parents we simply can't forget. We have have turned...

  8. This is the incision about a week after the operation. It took more then 50 staples to close him up.

  9. Aug. 13, 2004 chemo is done.

  10. Just before the beginning of round two the inevidable hair loss began. As difficult as this was to see we took it as a sign that the chemo was...

  11. This is about two weeks after a the RPLND. The hair is back and all of the chemo weight is off along with an amazing amount of muscle mass.

  12. June 7, 2004 just before the start of Jason's first of four rounds of EP. We blasted "Bad To The Bone" on our CD player as we were getting ready to...

  13. Dr. Joel Sheinfeld at Sloan Kettering is one of the world experts in performing an RPLND. This is him with Jason a month after the operation.

  14. This is our oncologist at Sloan Kettering in NYC. Dr. Robert Motzer.

  15. After Jason was diagnosed we all went for tattoo's. The ones on the right are the Chinese symbols for health, both spiritual and physical.

  16. Our local oncologist, Dr. Thomas Rakowski, with Jason just before the start of round 4.

  17. Walking graduation at WNEC. Two weeks after his I/O and three weeks before the begining of chemo.

  18. Graduation day 5/13/04.
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