Pam Kenyon, Coast Union’s venerable volleyball coach and science teacher, that was diagnosed along with colon cancer in December 2013 yet declared cancer-free several months later, is when again struggling along with the disease.
Researchers say that upward of 30 percent of patients that have actually had surgery and/or chemotherapy to fight colon cancer will certainly face the exact same battle again since this sort of cancer does indeed return.
Kenyon knows every one of concerning those odds.
Meanwhile, having finished her 25th year as a highly successful, respected and beloved volleyball mentor — leading the Lady Broncos to a 10-0 Coast Valley League tape in 2015 and advancing to the second round of the CIF playoffs — Kenyon has actually position the gloves on and is all set to battle cancer when again.
She joined an upbeat mood throughout a phone interview adhering to her visit to the Stanford Medical Focus on Saturday, Jan. 6; throughout that medical examination, doctors told her that “some quite extensive surgery” is in the offing.
In early December 2015, she had a Pet dog scan and it was determined that “there was some cancerous activity” in her colon. “quite immediately” she was position on “some various kind of chemotherapy,” and she’s been obtaining infused along with chemotherapy due to the fact that then.
I’m surrounded by people willing to cope with me, and that’s a blessing.
Pam Kenyon, Coast Union volleyball coach
In January 2016, one more Pet dog scan revealed that “there was no modification whatsoever,” so doctors didn’t understand whether the earlier Pet dog scan had revealed “scar tissue” or indeed much more cancer. Scar tissue can easily appear in scans as cancer, Kenyon explained.
So, after a couple much more tests, surgery will certainly be scheduled at Stanford — “they have to go in there and notice what’s happening” — probably in late springtime. She will certainly be hospitalized for four or 5 days after surgery, after that come estate and grab a month of bed rest. Or, as Kenyon position it along with a laugh, “until you don’t feel enjoy you’ve had surgery anymore.”
A wonderful concern to Kenyon is that she could gone her teaching job. She has actually taken close to the optimum variety of days for “emergency leave,” and she should grab “a couple of days of job in prior to my surgery simply to keep my job.” She is hoping her oncologist in San Luis Obispo will certainly authorize her to teach a minimum of for a couple of days.
Meanwhile, her support network has actually kept her going, she said.
“I’m surrounded by people willing to cope with me, and that’s a blessing. My coworkers have actually been supportive, and I grab messages every one of the moment that say, ‘We’re praying for you … you’re in our thoughts.’ It’s quite uplifting,” she said.
Her former volleyball gamers have actually her spine as well. According to last fall’s Coast Valley League MVP Xue DiMaggio, “Pam is a genuinely pleasant person; we every one of feel that. She establishes a truly excellent partnership along with you. She’s a coach, yet additionally she’s a friend.”
Sophie Flemion, a three-time MVP for Kenyon that graduated in 2010, remembers well exactly how Kenyon helped her, the two athletically and academically.
“She pushed every one of us to step from our comfort zone. I constantly talk concerning Pam; I constantly think of her.”
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