11/06        Extreme coughing and shortness of breath begins.

03/07        Itching all over the body begins.

7/22/07     Return home from mission trip to Athens, Greece.

7/26/07     Doctor's appointment with primary physician who requests chest X-ray

8/15/07     Chest X-ray performed.  Shows "shadow" in lung area.

8/17/07     CAT scan shows shadow to be a mass between the lungs.

8/23/07     PET scan shows mass to be cancerous.

8/24/07     Biopsy performed on mass.  Preliminary report states it is possibly Hodgkin's Lymphoma

8/31/07     Biopsy sent to lymphoma pathologist in Charlotte, NC.  His diagnosis is peripheral T-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.  He also states that it is extremely rare because the mass is in the chest area. 

9/11/07     Appointment in Houston scheduled for at MD Anderson Cancer Hospital.

9/11-13/07 Several tests performed for the doctors at MD Anderson

9/27/07     Results from MD Anderson confirm that it is T-cell lymphoma

10/9/07     Port installed in chest for chemotherapy treatments

10/10/07   First session of chemotherapy

10/31/07   Second session of chemotherapy

11/20/07   Second CAT scan done to show progress of first two chemo sessions

11/21/07   CAT scan results show mass has shrunk by 75%.  Also a "questionable area" which showed up inside one of the lungs at the first CAT scan has disappeared leaving doctors to believe the area was in fact cancerous and was eliminated by the chemo

11/26/07   Third session of chemotherapy