Robin’s Story

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After leading a healthy active live Robin started to have some breathing difficulties and sore abdomen over the last year. She went to a number of doctors and had lots of tests and X-rays done but nothing specific was found wrong.  Finally on October 7th the pain in her abdomen increased and we went to Kaiser Urgent care on Maui and further tests were done and it was determined that she had major stuff going on and we were shifted by ambulance to the Maui Hospital and then from there by air ambulance to. Kaiser Moanalua. She had exploratory surgery and a cancer mass about 4cm and one of her ovaries was removed and an abscessed bowel had drains put in. She had complications and further surgeries to try to find out what was going on and she started to decline in health. She was moved to ICU unit and placed under sedated sleep. I will update from here as I can.

Newest Update

Journal entry by Jerry Welch

We flew to Oahu yesterday and saw Robins main oncologist and he told us that Robin is now in remission from her epithelial ovarian cancer. He also said that 80% of the people with her type of cancer have recurrences within two years but he also felt he did good with her surgeries etc and is optimistic she may fair better. We sure hope so and Rob is in great spirits.

Meanwhile Robin has a ten day backpack trip in less that two weeks to glacier Nation park planned and has been walking most days to get into shape for it. The deleterious effects of her 24 weeks of chemo are starting to leave her and her hair grew back for the last three months though snowy white and the oncology department has been surprised at that. I am getting Robin's bike out of the garage loft today and she plans to start back on that. Due to the WBC count being really low from chemo Robin has had to avoid most social contact but now is looking forward to rejoining society and has missed seeing a lot of you.

I will update this site if anything majorly changes and Robin will be getting tests every three months but if you do not see new post that means tests came out OK. Mahalo Nui Loa for you caring about Robin and following her progress and hopefully we will see or communicate in more normal ways in the future. Jerry & Robin
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