“Toledo native, Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, was recently diagnosed with Stage 3 Pancreatic cancer. Joe is a Military Veteran and is receiving treatment at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital as well as the University of Michigan Hospital. Joe’s wife, Katie, explains: “Joe had been having stomach issues for about 3 months, which eventually became painful. On December 26th, he’d had enough of the pain and we went to the VA emergency room in Ann Arbor. They ran tests and performed scans which showed a mass in the head of his pancreas. The mass was restricting one of his biliary ducts, so they classified it as Stage 3 cancer. They also found that his SMV had a large blood clot. His current treatment plan is 6 months of Folfirinox chemotherapy and surgery to remove half of his pancreas and reconstruct the vein with the clot.”
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Thanks, Spunky.
My BFF, the best friend ever, died after she had the Whipple Procedure to remove cancer from a bile duct going into the pancreas, recovery was so rough that she never was able to get chemo and later developed liver cancer which she died from.
That very painful, horrendous operation did give her 2 more years of life which we are all thankful for.
Joe has a very painful road ahead, praying for him.
I missed this post earlier. Prayers for Joe!