Hello!!! Here is the 2nd present that I have gotten from the EIU Swim team.

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Part of this FSR process a few of my friends developed a weekly present pack. Everyday of the week, I can open little presents. It’s awesome. I don’t know who started the idea, either way, it’s great!!! I like getting little presents !! Right now it is getting a little overwhelming because there are so many and try to organize it all too.

The 1st week of presents came from the current swim team at Eastern Illinois University. In case you don’t know I swam under scholarship there from 1997-2001. The week I was opening all the presents I had one of my good friend fly in from San Diego (Chevy). Another former EIU swimmer. He help record me in opening some of these presents.

Initially I wanted to video tape me opening every single present. But there are just too many. There has been at least 4 people right now that have sent presents. What I may do is just take pictures of each present and it will be in my flickr account.

All of this has been a great experience for me to feel loved and has helped me get through each day. Thank you soooo much to all the people that are doing this!!!!

And for now. Here is the 1st video that I got from EIU. I hope to post more videos each day.

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I have been away from my online antics for some time now, but that is about to change.

I recently have been diagnosed with Desmoplastic small cell tumor malignant cancer. First off, don’t do any research online, you are just going to freak yourself out (trust me).
When I was on a trip to San Diego, I started to have abdominal pain. I came home and found out I have multiple tumors in my body. When the doctor told about the tumors, I saw my life flash before my eyes. I saw hundreds of pictures flash through my head. The pictures were of friends, family, happy times, swimming, sun and all things that make me happy. Also, I saw and thought of things in my future. Things I need to do and want to do, so I can be happy. It’s funny how this makes you think totally different than before, but you have a bigger inter-motivation than ever.

Back to the tumors. The tumors are in my abdominal region and range in size from very small to the size of a grapefruit. Actually about two of them are grapefruit size. The funny thing is that I went through tons of tests and came back normal, negative. So, I’m completely healthy!!! I just have a couple masses living inside me.
The biopsy of my tumors was sent to the Mayo clinic, where they diagnosed the tumors. Next step was to find the right doctor. I had a friend whose sister met one of Lance Armstrong’s doctors and Lance’s wedding. So I contacted the doctor and he directed to me to a specialist in my type of cancer. The type of cancer is a sarcoma, which is a soft tissue tumor. They directed me to Indiana University.

My treatment will be six sessions of chemo at Indianapolis. Each type of treatment is alternated. Treatment A is a one day outpatient session. Treatment B is an inpatient treatment in a hospital for 5 days. There is usually about 10-14 days break between each treatment. Therefore the chemo will be about 3 months.
I’m going to survive this and get on with my life with the goals I want to accomplish. So I’m going to start a category of my recovery on my Web site. You can access the category on the right hand sidebar. It will be labeled as F.S.R. – an acronym for Faith. Success. Recovery. All three of these words are beneficial for me to get over this milestone in my life. Faith comes from God, friends and family. Success happens after the faith from God, friends and family. Recovery is a mixture of Faith and Success and the process of me adapting to my present and future successful life after cancer.

So from now on, you will see constant updates of my F.S.R. here on my blog. The updates can be a variety of things like: motivational quotes, inspirational quotes, videos, pictures, blog posts and more. Viewer digression is advised, which has a new RSS feed. The RSS feed icon is at the top right of my website too. But if you need a link here you go: http://feeds.feedburner.com/schmult.

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