The prognosis...

Monday, July 28, 2014
We met with the Hematology Oncologist. She is a general cancer doctor who specializes in Chemo treatments. The appointment did not go well. We learned that cancer is very rare and that there is no standard of treatment at the hospital we are approved to go to and that no one in the hospital had experience with this type of cancer. She was very nice and offered to do some more research, but that the prognosis was not good. She confirmed that Mama Pham was now "metastatic" which means the cancer has spread into multiple organs and she is past stage 4.

As we left that day, we knew our lives would never be the same again. We are now in the fight of our lives, as we need to fight for Mama Phams life. That night we had a Phamily meeting, divided up jobs and in true Pham Family fashion came up with a plan to beat this.  ALL of the odds are stacked up against us, the odds are low but if anyone can beat the odds at come out top of the class it is going to be Mama Kim Pham.

Please help pray for Mama Pham, us, the doctors and the medicines to work. It is going to be a long, scary journey and I promise to update you all as we go.