He was one of my first cancer patients, with cancer
throughout his liver, spleen and throughout his lymph nodes. Almost everything I was seeing at that time
was new to me, especially cancer and how to treat it. His case sure stretching my family practice
training, but we treated him with all the chemotherapy that we had and he
responded. As it looked like we were on
the winning side of things, he left our hospital and didn’t follow up. That was 5 yrs ago, I assumed he had died,
but by God’s grace he is still alive and showed up 1 week ago.
When he left our hospital he went to live with his father
and got care at another hospital in PNG.
They were able to do surgery to remove a large tumor burden and to give
him radiation and chemotherapy. He
responded well and has been doing well for the past 3 years or so, but his
cancer hasn’t fully resolved, which is why he came back.
He still has enlarged lymph nodes and his spleen is replaced
by tumor, but he is alive and well, and got married last year. We hope to keep him around for a number of
years more as we look to continue to treat his cancer.
Pray for Nason, pray for his physical healing as well as his
spiritual. 5 years ago, his mom was daily
praying for him and he came to the Lord while we were treating him, but since
he has been better, he has quit going to church. Pray that he would go back, that he would
find strength in the Lord and His grace.
