Great Christmas!!

Gavin Butzine, Matt's Nephew

Sunday December 27 was Matt's Nephew, Gavin's Baptism.

Matt and Casey with Ella at the Danihel side Christmas.

Matt gave rims to Nate for Christmas
Matt and Casey at Christmas.

Sorry it is little dark. Here is Casey and Matt before they go snowmobiling.

Matt had a great Christmas. He feeling well. We are working on getting the insurance company's blessing for this surgery in Washington DC.

Matt spent time snowmobiling with his family and friends. He said he had a blast!! He even took Casey out on the snowmobile!!

Thank you to all for you continued thoughts and prayers. Thank you for the prays of help for the insurance company to help with this surgery. Matt is truly blessed with the support of his family and friends. Thank you so much!!

Surgery Change!

Matt is no longer having surgery in Watertown Hospital. I sent the pathology report to Dr. Sugarbaker and he felt he will help Matt the most. Dr. Sugarbaker knows this cancer and how to deal with it.

Matt is set up to see Dr. Sugarbaker on January 19, 2010 for a physcial. January 20, 2010 he will have some tests done and on January 21 he will have surgery. They say he could be in the hospital 10-14 days.

Matt got back his tumor marker results. It went up to 2.8 from 2.7 last time.

Thank you for all your continued prayers.

Surgery again!

Dr. Stoddard found 2 polyps or nodules. We will have the pathology report on Thursday. Polyps are not cancerous but will turn to cancer nodules. Nodules are already cancerous. Dr. Stoddard says they have to come out and the only way is surgery as soon as he can do it.

Matt is set up for Surgery on December 23 at 7:30 in the morning. Dr. Stoddard said by Christmas Day IF. . . he was feeling up to it she would let him leave the hospital for a while to be with family! My side (Kitty's) of the family gets together on Christmas Day and we have switched it to be at our house in Ixonia so Matt can be apart of it.

Matt is having a colon resection surgery. This is where she cuts the colon open where the polyps are and takes them out and reattached the colon. She is not worried about my possibly having a colostomy done. She dose not for see that happening!! She cannot do it Laparoscopic surgery because Matt has had to many surgery's.

So on December 23rd Matt has to be in the hospital at 5:30 with a clean colon again!! He cannot eat or drink after midnight on the 22nd.

Thank you for all your continue thoughts and prayers for Matt! If you want to visit Matt he will be at Watertown Hospital Deceber 22 thru Dec 27. They said it is usually a 5 day stay.

Colonoscopy scheduled

Over the weekend Matt developed some bleeding. He went to the hospital on Saturday. Dr. Eastman had them check if he was anemic. Tests show he was okay. Matt has no pain anywhere so we decided to wait until Monday.

Matt saw Dr Stoddard today. She checked him over. Matt has a colonoscopy scheduled tomorrow at 11:30. It should take about a half hour. Dr. Staddard will let us know if she found anything after that.

Thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers!