Randam Adam

  Well I just got the call from Julie at Doctor Senders office in UCI and all three things that I have been waiting for have been approved! The tissue sample was delivered to their pathology lab this morning. They are gonna re-test it and have a clear cut diagnosis by Fri.  Then they are gonna talk to me and set up a chemotherapy plan and their hope is that I will be starting chemotherapy by mid next week.

  Also they are scheduling me for the eco-cardiogram test of my heart and the minor surgical procedure of installing the portacath which is where they administer the chemo and draw blood from.   So although I am happy to finally have this happening it is also a scary thought.   So all prayers are appreciated and I will blog any more as soon as I hear anything about specifics or dates. I just got my appointment time for the ecocardiogram and I'm having it done this Thursday at 2:30pm. If you have any questions or suggestions please leave a comment. As always, thank you so much for caring .

                                                           GOD Bless,
                                                                            ADP

 OK, so I just called my oncologists office cause its been a few days since we talked and I wanted just an update. Well the doctor and nurses are in the cancer clinic today treating patients so Dora at the front desk said that she would pass on the message and have them get back to me.   The things I've been waiting on are the lab results from the pathologists at UCI to re-test my tissue sample that was taken during my surgical biopsy, and have a clear diagnosis of exactly what I have. Then from there we are gonna make a "road map to recovery" plan on my treatment and all of the details. So I will post anything new I find out.

   In a side un-related topic every time that there is a holiday my paycheck (which is mailed to me by the workman's comp insurance company) is late. So because it is almost a week late again my account is overdrawn because I have direct bill pay that automatically deducts for certain bills. So I called my lawyers office yesterday to talk to them like I always do when I have a problem with my checks and Maria (office director) puts me on hold and then my lawyer Mr Meline comes on. I never talk to him directly unless its and emergency, so right away I know somethings up!  So he comes on and asks me a few questions about whats going on with the cancer and I tell him all that I know and then he tells me that workman's comp has "p.n.s.'d" me which means that they have released me from disabled status to able to work status.
  
  Now I have a question: "If I was physically unable to work in March when I was doing therapy and found the lump, then why would I be physically able to now when I have not done any therapy or physical activity to help strengthen my back since then?" If anything I have basically become physically dormant to rest up and not make the situation any worse.  So now I am scared and confused and my lawyer said that he was gonna check into a few things for me, but the next step would be to start talking settlement, which is good but that can take awhile and he gave me the two options: either take lifetime medical coverage of my back and a bi-weekly check until it runs out, or take lump sum settlement.

  Now I always thought that I could do a lump sum and also ask for lifetime medical, so now I'm really confused and don't know what to do! Also my lawyer talked about how this cancer is number one priority and I should focus on whats going on with that. I cant just wait around and not be getting paid and do the whole settlement thing after I'm done with Chemotherapy, so I need some serious prayer. Please pray that GOD helps show me and my lawyer what to do and that I can be taken care of during this time, thanks.

                                     As Always GOD Bless,
                                                                      ADP

P.S. This picture was taken at Disneyland last Sunday

Well I had a great birthday. After getting the call in the morning that I had been approved my day was really shaping up. My parents, brother and I went to KNOTT'S for brunch at the Chicken Dinner Restaurant. It was good.



  Then after that my brother and I headed to Disneyland, where we hung out at California Adventures and rode some rides for a few hours and then my friend Joey showed up. We stayed at California Adventures for a few more hours and then headed to DISNEYLAND.

Once at D-Land we went on the Haunted Mansion Holiday where we met up with my friend Juliet and Bryan.



We went on Pirates of the Caribbean where in line I recognized Kelly Packard who I used to watch on California Dreams and she was also on Baywatch for awhile. I talked to her and asked her for a picture, she was really sweet.





  We went around the park and did all the major stuff: we rode Matterhorn, Big Thunder Railroad and we had a blast. We ate dinner at the Plaza Cafe,  watched the fireworks and we stayed until around 11pm. It was a blast! Thanks to all of my friends that showed up. I had a great day!


Thanks a lot for a Blessed Birthday everybody!
                                         ADP

OK, so i didn't write yesterday cause there was sooo much going on and I just could  handle writing cause I was on emotional overload .

  So after the awesome visit that inspired me and filled me with hope on Tuesday i get a call yesterday from Dr Senders office telling me that I need to change my "MEDICAL HOME"  to include their facility. I called MSI and before I even got a callback Dr Senders office called me again and told me that they said that as of September 1st no one can change their medical home.

  Dr Senders office said that without approval to have them be my medical home they cant start any treatments. Well i was making phone calls to everybody that I knew to call.I even called Medi-Cal to check up on my application. So needless to say that by the end of yesterday I was upset and distraught! I had an oncologist that cared for me and is willing to help me out' treat me and is a specialist in my field an then I have an insurance company that wants me to be seen by an oncologist that doesn't care about me and even said that she couldn't even treat me!


  So for the first time since finding out I have cancer I broke down and cried! I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO BUT CRY OUT to GOD and ask for mercy!  So I put it on my facebook and twitter asking everyone to pray for me and that GOD would intervene and somehow sway the insurance company to change their minds and their new policy.

  This morning I got a call back from the insurance company, just to tell me that I'm not eligible to change doctors til the end of December. I begged and pleaded with them and explained  that the doctor they are trying to send me to told me that she doesn't treat my type of cancer in her facility and they said thats the rules! I get a call back from the same lady from MSI about fifteen minutes after I got off the phone with her saying that Dr Sender himself called the medical director of California and pleaded my case personally and got them to overturn that rule for me and so now I am approved to see Dr Sender and get my treatment and chemotherapy done thru UCI!

  So praises be to GOD, I was literally at the point of despair last night and today I am rejoicing and praising GOD! HE is good and I am seeing his work in this situation.  I still don't really know they "why" behind all of this, but I am amazed and humbled about how he has worked to help the insurance situation.

  I also want to personally thank each and every friend, family member, brothers and sisters in Christ and any strangers who lifted me up in prayer. Its an overwhelming feeling to know that people all over the place are thinking and praying for you!

  I also need to thank Dr Sender and every other person in his office that has gone to bat for me (Dora, Teresa, Linda, Julie, Anna and anyone else that name escapes me at the moment)
I am soo lucky to have found people that actually care if i live or die! thank you soooo much!

  Well i am on my way to Disneyland for my B-Day  so I have to go (don't worry I'm not driving and writing this) LOL. God Bless you all and I pray that I can be as good as a friend and prayer warrior as you guys have been for me!

     An eternally Grateful,
                                       ADP

So I finally got to go see Dr Sender at UCI today. After talking to everyone in their office for the past three or four weeks. I only got approved to see him cause his awesome office put in a lot of calls to the insurance company & pushed them to approve me.

So as soon as I got into the office the entire staff that Ive been talking to for the past few weeks came in and introduced themselves and they all gave me a hug. it was overpoweringly emotional. Its just such of a relief to finally know that there are people out there that truly do care about me and my well being.

So I saw the doctor and he and his physicians assistant discussed the previous test that I have had and what those results were. what it boils down to is that although the surgical biopsy did tell us that it was Non-Hodgkins B-Cell Lymphoma, it said "with possible Burkitts Lymphoma" and Dr Sender says that he doesn't do "possibles" they want an exact diagnosis so they are ordering my tissue samples to be sent to UCI so their world class pathologists can examine them and know for sure if I have Burkitts or not.

I also brought the cd with he PET scan images on it and he is gonna have the radiologist there at the hospital take a look at the images and give a second opinion and maybe a reason why the other lymph nodes did not show up on the scan.

So from the pathological review I am gonna find out if I have intermediate lymphoma or a type of Burkitts, and there are two types that it could be: a inactive lymphoma (if I had it but there is no longer any traceable cancer in my body) or another kind that is active.

The bad news is that all of the above require chemotherapy: depending on what their review of my tissue sample find will just change the type of chemotherapy I get and how long the treatments will be. The shortest one is a few months and the longest one would be around or a little over six months . He didn't give me a ton of information on the chemotherapy cause he said that it would be pointless to flood me with all this information until they have an exact diagnosis.

Dr Sender also discussed with me that he is looking for a young person to blog and or tweet about their experience, so he mentioned to me that maybe I could be that person, that bring this information and all of my experiences to a new generation. He told me that he has a lot of young patients with cancer and it is a very scary thing. So I was thinking "could this be my purpose? My reason for going through this?" who knows but GOD and only time will tell. But just having that thought gave me some new hope and shed some light on my situation. I guess uplifting would be the word for it.

So I think that's all the information I have for now' or all that I can remember at this time. I will be sure to keep you all updated on what I find out. Thanks again for reading and caring about me and please keep the prayers coming!

GOD Bless,
ADP

So as you all know I have been struggling with he insurance company to be approved for the next round of tests & also to see a oncologist that I was told about by my friend Jay at the American Cancer Society. Well I have been in constant contact with this doctors office and they have been talking to me and I have been keeping them abreast of whats going on with the insurance company so they have been calling my primary doctor nd putting pressure on them to do follow up calls and they have also started calling the insurance company and bugging them as well.

So I got a call from Dr. Senders office late his afternoon and they called and yelled at someone and got the insurance company to say yes for me to see hem. Now this is how awesome Dr Senders office is, they are rushing me in to have a consult with the doctor tomorrow afternoon, and its his day out of the office! I am seriously soooo grateful to finally have someone that I feel truly cares for my well being. Its a blessing, a true blessing!


So praise GOD for all of that. Its gonna be a consult and we are gonna go over all of the results from the previous test that I have had done. Were also gonna discuss the next steps and other tests that I need 2 have done. So please continue to pray that those can be approved asap so they can get a clear idea of what I have and how to treat it! Soooo thank you sooo much for all of your thoughts and prayers and I will be sure to blog about what I happen to find out at the doctors appointment tomorrow!

As always GOD Bless and I love You!
ADP

Ok, So my family and I went to Disneyland Yesterday to celebrate my cousin Kelly's Birthday. We were there the afternoon and night. It was super crowded which sucks, but what are you gonna do?

So we rode a few rides and watched the new parade and FANTASMIC. It was a good but exhausting day. Ill put a few pics on here but the rest of them will be on my facebook.

































So im back to the grindstone tomorrow with calls and trying to get some answers. I will post something as soon as I hear it. Thanks soo much for reading and I will talk to you soon!

GOD Bless,
ADP

First and foremost I wanna thank everyone who came to see the movie with me, so its time for shout outs: Dad, my friend Dawnn that I used to work with. My friends Bob and Janet. Kiera and her mom Andrea, Monique and Tim (it was great to see you guys) and anyone else I forgot I'm sorry!

The Invention of Lying is a comedy written by and starring the ridiculously funny Ricky Gervais. Its is also staring Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill and of course Rob Lowe. So the premise of this movie is simple: IN a world where no one can lie or even know what lying is one mad discovers he can and when he does everybody automatically believes him (because they don't know any better).

So there are a few things that I am going to address first: this movie is rated PG-13 but I would not suggest to any parents with kids that age or younger there are multiple times that the dialogue goes sexual and is a bit more detailed then "Tommy Teenager" needs to hear. The second item I want to address before the rest of my review is the hidden storyline behind this comedy. Besides the funniness and laughter there is a (not very well hidden) theme in this movie and it is actually about atheism and GOD. There is no GOD in this alternate universe and nobody has ever heard of "The Big Man In The Sky" until the main character makes him up to comfort his dying mother and then the whole movie spins that way. Then he just starts making up rules that GOD wants the world to live by and then he mimics Moses and the ten commandments. Not sure if they were mocking/spoofing or completely making fun of the Bible but just beware that is the central theme.

On with the review. Overall I liked this movie, it was a bit slower then I expected, with less laugh-out-loud moments then I hoped for but there was a surprising twist that I didn't expect, this movie had a heart! There were quite a few heartfelt and tearful scenes and that I wasn't expecting. This was a great addition to the typical situational comedy that I was gonna place this movie in.

The Supporting cast was great and I surprisingly believed the relationship between Garner and Gervais. I liked Jonah Hill as the downbeat suicidal neighbor. Rob Lowe doesn't even have to act to be the pretentious you-know-what (its just how he seems to be in real life in my opinion). I love the cameos appearances by Tina Fey, she can do no wrong in my book (so far).

So to boil it all down: you should see this film if you are OK with the two reasons I listed above and you can expect laughs just not constantly. Be prepared for some slower dramatic parts and if your an emotional movie goer a tissue or two as well.

I hope this was helpful and until next time Ill see you at the movies!

ADP