Mitchell  (Tyler Merriman Love Legacy Scholarship Recipient) is heading to OSU and majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

CANCER is a lesson of endurance, faith, and patience.

Week Three is over and I am almost half way there!! Then surgery.  I should not be so excited about knee replacement surgery but when I get to that point, I will be doing the downhill run plus anything beats sitting in a hospital four days at a time while Chemo runs through your veins. But it is saving my life so I shouldn’t complain.

Hello people, I can’t believe I have so many people. Smart people, strong people, funny people, compassionate people and most of all PRAYER people.

It’s been a good day – and a good week. Getting strong and swigging protein drinks like they are candy!! Visited OSU and got caught up on what’s going on in orange country.

MONDAY IS LOOKING GOOD. We completed our first round a 3 day inpatient Chemo. Since all Good things come in threes, I have listed the top three things that I am most thankful for today.

Hey everyone. I’m doing pretty good this far. A lot has happened in the last few days. I will be starting chemotherapy this Monday at Valley View Hospital in Ada.

This is going to be an “up till now” journal entry. So here’s what has happened. I went to the orthopedic oncologist, Dr. Smith.

March 22, 2011, Osteosarcoma became a part of daily vocabulary. My son could hardly utter the word on the phone that day when he found out that the pain in his right knee was in fact cancer.