Well I'm setting in my brothers room right now. As I type this he is going under to have his transverse colon removed(?) along with about two feet of his intestine. He is staying strong and is convinced that he will be home by Christmas.

He is only 30 years old. Last March, after his son was born, he went to the doctors complaining that his stomach hurt. They told him he had an ulcer. They never even scoped him. A few weeks ago his back began hurting him again. He was in a bad car accident several years ago and figured that the back pain had to do with that.

He came to the hospital and the short of it is, he has cancer. They believe that it is in the early fourth stage, as there are cancer cells in his lymphnodes. They finally found the tumor during a colonoscopy. There is a baseball size tumor in his large intestine. They believe that it has been there for at least five years.

As far as the doctor who said that he had an ulcer. During testing here, they found no signs of an ulcer, and docters have said that they have no idea how this other quack even believed that it was an ulcer. Hey, I'm no doctor, but last time I checked there was a bit of a difference between an ulcer and cancer.

Those of you who have been trying to call, thank you for your thoughts and prayers. I have not even taken my phone out of my coat pocket here, so it just dies searching for a signal. I'll try and return your calls when I get back to the charger.