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| DATES OF LOGAN'S ILLNESS November, 1998 - Logan was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma. |
| What is rhabdomyosarcoma? Rhabdomyosarcoma is a disease in which cancer (malignant) cells begin growing in muscle tissue somewhere in the body. Rhabdomyosarcoma is a type of a sarcoma, which means a cancer of the bone, soft tissues, or connective tissue (e.g., tendon or cartilage). Rhabdomyosarcoma begins in the soft tissues in a type of muscle called striated muscle. It can occur anywhere in the body. There are several types of sarcoma that are found in children and young adults. The cancer cells must be looked at under a microscope to tell which type of sarcoma it is. Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common type of sarcoma found in the soft tissues of children. Other types of soft tissue sarcoma are covered in the PDQ patient information summary on childhood soft tissue sarcoma, non-rhabdomyosarcoma. Sarcomas occurring in the bone are usually called osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma; see the separate patient information summaries on these diseases for more information. Soft tissue sarcoma in adults is covered in the patient information summary on adult soft tissue sarcoma. |
| Logan had five surgeries: 1. November, 1998 - biopsy 2. February, 1999 - biopsy 3. September, 1999 - biopsy 4. October, 1999 - major surgery (was closed up and nothing was done.) 5. March, 2000 - major surgery at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York City. Chemo started in November, 1998. Radiation for five weeks, starting in February, 1999, and finishing on his birthday, April 15, 1999. Chemo continued. Starting in July, 2000 - complications started due to: cancer, scar tissue from surgeries, and radiation and chemo. October 14, 2000 - Logan decided that he was ready to go home and live with Jesus. Logan died at 7:40 a.m. November 4, 2000 at home with all his family with him. |
Safely Home I am home in Heaven, dear ones; Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief is over, Every restless tossing passed; I am now at peace forever, Safely home in Heaven at last. Did you wonder I so calmly Trod the valley of the shade? Oh! but Jesus' love illumined Every dark and fearful glade. And He came Himself to meet me In the way so hard to tread; And with Jesus' arm to lean on, Could I have one doubt or dread? Then you must not grieve so sorely, For I love you dearly still: Try to look beyond earth's shadows, Pray to trust our Father's Will. There is work still waiting for you, So you must not idly stand; Do it now, while life remaineth- You shall rest in Jesus' land. When that work is all completed, He will gently call you Home; Oh, the rapture of that meeting, Oh, the joy to see you come! Author Unknown |
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