Matt

I saw Matt on Thursday, he was taking a couple of tests so that he could remove Incompletes from his record from the semester a year ago. The university requires Incompletes to be removed within a year or the become Fs. He has some facial hair but his head was bald. He was more thin then the last time I saw him. He was in a cheery mood. I got to chat with him between exams, he had to take two that day. By the time he finished the second he was extremely tired.

He told me he was having one of his regular treatments starting next Monday, the 17th. This treatment is to hold his tumor where it is now until he can have a new treatment sometime in the new year. There is a doctor in New York at Sloan-Kettering that has a new, experimental, treatment for the kind of cancer Matt has. That doctor has had some success with the treatment. It is so new, and so experimental, that you have to go to Sloan-Kettering to have it. Matt's current physician is now in the process of getting Matt into that treatment program.

Matt continues to have a positive attitude..... I can't help think that on Monday while the 4 O'Clock Club meets for a chit chat and brew and companionship that Matt will be having that treatment to hold his tumor in check. And while we spend this coming week in anticipation of the coming of the Christ.... Matt will be fending off the effects of that treatment and once more be losing his hair...

I would ask you to pause for a few seconds during this week and pray for this young man has he battles his disease. Pray that he may find the treatment that will cure his cancer.....

God bless you all, john