01/07/2024
Let’s beat pancreatic cancer by showing who is boss of it! Help support Steve in his journey by giving him a room to dream about his best fishing days, and more to come!
FIRST OF ALL…….SHHHH !!!! This room makeover is a SECRET! We are so excited to make this a huge SURPRISE for Steve, but his wife Sharon is in on it! I have known Steve and Sharon for as long as we have lived in our neighborhood, which is about 30 years! We are so honored to do a room for dear friends and neighbors on their cancer journey. Please read more about that below, and then head on over to our web page with the link provided to share in the excitement of making this wonderful room come true for Steve. We are designing a brand new main level den makeover for Steve for ease of that wonderful afternoon nap dreaming of fishing, or a cozy visit with friends talking about fishing…here is Steve’s story…
Steve is a family man, husband to Sharon, faithful, a good friend and neighbor, and a passionate fisherman. After a very successful fishing trip on Lake Erie in July 2020, Steve returned home and became a little jaundiced. His doctor thought he had a clogged bile duct that needed a stent. After surgery on July 24 2020, the shocking diagnosis came – the surgeon found pancreatic cancer. There was a whirlwind of appointments that followed.
Step one on this cancer journey was two rounds of chemotherapy starting August 18, 2020. Step two came on December 3, 2020 with the 13.5 hour Whipple surgery that resulted in a 70th birthday present for Steve about a week later: surgery was a complete success, all margins were clear and he was considered CANCER FREE. More “insurance” chemo followed the surgery. Now Steve just needed to make a New Year’s resolution to fatten up!
2021 saw Steve, and his wife, Sharon, become home bodies, kind of like the rest of the world. But 2022-2023 had them back on the go. They enjoyed trips to Boston with family, a cruise and trip to Disney World, a Caribbean Cruise, several trips to Breckenridge and Ohio and of course fishing whenever the opportunity arose!
Then on October 23, 2023 a biopsy of a spot on Steve’s lung confirmed that his pancreatic cancer had returned. Currently, Steve is going through another round of chemotherapy with fatigue being the most challenging side effect.
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Be watching this story as we will soon be posting as well for volunteers and donations towards this deserving man’s room. TIA!
