About Robert Feuille
On February 24th, Robert Feuille was diagnosed with testicular cancer, at the age of 26. That same day, his doctors performed an orchiectomy (to be read: they took his cancerous ball out). The cancer showed none of the typical growth patterns associated with its spreading. So, Robert’s doctors presumed that he was in the clear.
After a week of vomiting, rather than resting from his surgery, Robert was rushed into chemotherapy. As it turned out, the cancer had already spread to his lungs and liver, with cumulative tumor marker counts at about 2.4 million. The tumors in his liver were causing internal bleeding. What he hadn’t been told at the time was that his liver was in such a bad state that he could have been dead in just a few days if he hadn’t gone to the hospital when he did. So much for being in the clear.
Robert spent the next four months in chemotherapy in Austin, Texas. His wife Aimee was by his side, though his two daughters were sent to El Paso, Texas to live with their grandparents while Robert was weak and immuno-compromised. With each round of chemo, Robert’s tumor markers dropped and, not surprisingly, hope and peace returned. The results of each blood test seemed to demand a sigh of relief. What was 2.4 million dropped to 45,000 in the first month, 1500 in the next, and to 188 after that. The cancer was responding to the treatment and all seemed well. By June, the tumor marker count was at 19. Although, Robert had lost a lost of weight and desperately needed some color back in his flesh, victory seemed just within reach.
July’s blood test brought less joyous news. Actually, the tumor marker count of 900 felt like a swift kick to an already maltreated crotch. Robert and his family were thrown back into combat mode and plans were made to send Robert to Indianapolis for another chemotherapy treatment, but this time it would be a higher dosage (i.e. - nearly lethal), combined with a stem cell transplant. However, Aimee would be unable to join him. Weeks away from delivering their third child, the chemotherapy would be dangerous to both her and their child should she come in contact with it.
Robert is a copywriter for an advertising agency and a brilliant photographer. He is a proud father of three children and husband to an amazing and beautiful wife. As it currently stands, Robert, now 27, is undergoing a second brutal chemotherapy treatment. It’s certainly been difficult, but Robert has been both surprised and blessed by the family and friends who have rallied around him as he fights this cancer. The battle just got a little harder. So, it’s time for us to rally around him all the more.
Fight for Feuille.