THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

In October 2012, Jan was diagnosed with it Non Hodgkins lymphoma, her prognosis was great, because the cancer was very slow growing, she was told that while her type of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma was incurable, she could live potentially with it, for a very long time.

At the time of Scott's passing (Sept 2014), Jan had a scan again for cancer since she was having pain, and at that time, nothing had changed, everything was the same and there were no new tumors.

Over this last month Jan had some stomach pain, and believed it to be an ulcer.  After visiting the doctor, they performed an endoscopy and found nothing so they suggested it was probably her gall bladder. She had a bi-annual visit to her oncologist, which showed nothing out of the ordinary when they checked her previous tumors.

Thursday the 31st, she took herself to the emergency room with intense stomach pain and after a few scans, it became apparent that there were tumors all through her abdomen, her intestines and most likely her lungs.

At her next appointment with her oncologist, she was told that her cancer had changed and it was now Large B Cell Aggressive Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and was told it was probably something called "Double Aggressive" or "Double Hit" referring to how quickly it was growing.  "Double Aggressive" or "Double Hit" will require much more aggressive treatment.

The silver lining of all of this news is that this type of cancer *can* be cured, as apposed to her original diagnosis which didn't have a cure.  If her cancer is double aggressive or double hit, her chances of a cure are reduced but there is still a chance.

Jan will have a big fight ahead of her and prayers are appreciated at this time.

While we understand and appreciate all of the calls of concern and well wishes, at this time the volume of those calls are a little overwhelming.  We are going to update this blog as soon as we have information to give so please know that if this blog has no updates, there are no new updates and please keep your calls to Jan to just emails or texts of well wishes.

Please note that with her aggressive treatment she may not be feeling well enough to answer emails and text messages but definitely feels the love that is pouring in.