From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V5 #126 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Sunday, July 28 2002 Volume 05 : Number 126 In This Digest: ----------------- A HUGE favor to ask... ["Rob Tittel" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:06:30 -0400 From: "Rob Tittel" Subject: A HUGE favor to ask... Hi Everyone -- I interrupt your regularly scheduled banter about all things Emm and Sarah to ask for a HUGE favor. I don't consider myself an extremely religious person, but I do feel I am spiritual in some way and I do believe in the power of prayer and positive thought as a healing mechanism. I want to ask all of you who may be religious to please say a prayer to whatever god you pray to for my roommate. She went to her doctor about 4 weeks ago after she noticed she had started gaining weight again and her abdominal area was starting to swell a bit. They did some tests and the doctors said she had some cysts on her ovaries and was going to need surgery. They scheduled her for a surgery in August. Over the last three weeks however, her condition worsened by the day. She begin to feel a huge energy drain (taking a shower in the morning to get ready for work became a hugely tasking effort). She was sleeping a lot and always in great pain. She went back to the doctor's several times; they prescribed Darvasett; that didn't work; they prescribed Vicadin. That helped a little, but eventually wore off as well. Finally the pain was so intense and crippling that she went back to the doctor again this past Monday. They examined her again and were disturbed to find elevated LDH and CA125 levels in her blood. They immediately bumped up her surgery to this Friday. So yesterday she went under the knife at 1:30pmEST. When the doctors came out, the news was NOT good. They said Kristen had an very advanced and aggressive cancer. The surgical team did a complete hysterectomy and removed part of her colon. The cancer had engulfed both of her ovaries and part of her colon and had moved into her uterus. They removed all of the tumor but it remains to be seen if the cancer has spread into other parts of her body. More testing needs to be done and a biopsy on the tumor done to determine what kind of cancer this is, how aggressive it is, and what the next course of action is. Kristen is only 30 years old. MY AGE for gods sake. It's not fair to anyone to have this disease at ANY age, but especially not so young. I have lost my mother to Ovarian cancer 6 years ago and my Uncle to Brain cancer just 2 years ago. Cancer is extremely prevalent to me it seems. I know there must be others of you on this list that have been personally affected by this disease. While I know none of you know Kristen (except Trish Concepcion who played at a benefit party for her for another tragedy about 3 years ago), I ask that you keep her in your thoughts. Thank you everyone, Rob P.S. as I am typing this email, Kristen called me. she is out of recovery and into a normal hospital room. I am probably going to visit her today or tomorrow, and if anyone wants an update you can email me personally.... thank you all for keeping her in your thoughts We now return you to your regularly scheduled Emm and Sarah content....................................... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Tittel DreamsAwake Music Music and Concert Reviews, News Tour Dates, Booking, Publicity, NetRadio, and more... www.dreamsawake.com Click here to Listen to Jericho Two, indie-rock, folk, and 90's alternative internet radio www.live365.com/stations/193197 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V5 #126 *******************************