{"id":2632,"date":"2013-10-01T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2013-10-01T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T00:07:48","slug":"bob-busteeds-friend-nathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/2013\/10\/bob-busteeds-friend-nathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Busteed’s friend Nathan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bob<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Update from Bob, September 26, 2013<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“A brief update on Nathan who will be two in October.\u00a0 He has a “pediatric glioma tumor” near the brain stem.\u00a0 A portion is inoperable and they have been treating him all this time with a chemotherapy regimen.\u00a0 Symptoms have been difficulty swallowing and left side facial and body weakness.\u00a0 Just this week we have learned the chemo is no longer working, the tumor is growing and the symptoms are becoming more pronounced.\u00a0 His parents have decided to try a risky vaccine clinical trial (experimental) as the oncologist believes it is the most promising option.\u00a0 Nathan can’t have radiation until he is three so everyone is working to get him there.\u00a0 Surprisingly, he is a happy and fun loving little guy who is tough as nails.\u00a0 His parents are most appreciative of the prayers from the Brave Men and these prayers are most important now as the new treatment begins next week.\u00a0 Thanks to all.
\nBob”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bob Busteed,\u00a0<\/strong>“An update on little 8 month old Nathan, the grandson of the Talkowski’s,\u00a0<\/em>friends of ours. An MRI revealed a brain tumor attached to his spine. \u00a0An operation took place on June 5th. \u00a0Little Nathan was only 14 lbs.\u00a0<\/em>The surgeon removed about 90% of the brain tumor.\u00a0 The remainder affects swallowing,\u00a0one arm, an eye.\u00a0 He has a feeding tube although they have commenced some limited soft foods by mouth.\u00a0 Nathan is at home now and physical therapy has started\u00a0for the arm.\u00a0 Doctors are hopeful.\u00a0 Parents are encouraged and their faith is growing. \u00a0They (and I) are very appreciative of the prayers from the Brave Men!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Update from Bob, September 26, 2013 “A brief update on Nathan who will be two in October.\u00a0 He has a “pediatric glioma tumor” near the brain stem.\u00a0 A portion is inoperable and they have been treating him all this time with a chemotherapy regimen.\u00a0 Symptoms have been difficulty swallowing and left side facial and body weakness.\u00a0 Just this week we have learned the chemo is no longer working, the tumor is growing and the symptoms are becoming more pronounced.\u00a0 His parents have decided to try a risky vaccine clinical trial (experimental) as the oncologist believes it is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer-requests","category-quick-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravemen.org\/BravemenBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}