Supporting the Schultz Family
Goal:
USD $10,000
Raised:
USD $2,505
Campaign funds will be received by Angela Schultz
Supporting the Schultz Family
My husband Tony, the strongest man I know, FINALLY let me bring him into the New London ER on February 6th 2025 after suffering from severe gas pain for the past couple weeks. The ER took scans of his abdomen and did some blood work. We never got the results of those tests. Instead, we were told Tony needed to be transfered by ambulance to ThedaCare Neenah for 'exploratory' surgery. Very soon after this news he was whisked away and admitted into the ThedaCare Neenah hospital's operating room. We barely had any time to say our goodbyes let alone talk about all of the "what ifs" the doctors warned us about. My husband is a fighter so whatever the outcome was, I knew we were going to be just fine! The 'exploratory' surgery lasted 1 1/2 hours and was a success according to the surgeon. During the surgery they found a 5 cm tumor in his colon. They were able to remove it and send it out to pathology. Almost all of the 'what ifs' turned into our 'new normals'. Tony woke up from that surgery with a colostomy bag, cancer diagnosis, and lots of hurdles to climb! He was hospitalized until February 15th. Shortly after we got home we found out he is battling STAGE 3 ADENOCARCINOMA COLON CANCER.
He needs to heal from surgery before he can start any type of treatment. As of right now, he needs to have a proper colonoscopy in 6 weeks to make sure they got everything, genetic testing, make a cancer treatment plan, and heal/rest. His colostomy bag can be reversed after all of the cancer treatment is completed. The timeline on that is all unknown. We are just trying to take things day by day!
My husband Tony has been the sole provider of our large family for a very long time! We never left any room for the unknown and what ifs. He is and will be out of work for awhile. He will be receiving short term disability but it won't be enough to cover all of the new and pre-existing expenses. Because of this we are asking for help with medical expenses, transportation, medical supplies, monthly bills, ect. Any donation will help reduce the stress we are dealing with. The less stress he has the faster he recovers!
Thank you for your time!
Love, The Schultz Family
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Updates
Update #4
June 13th, 2025
Tony was able to complete round 5 of chemotherapy. The doctor lowered the dose to 80% in hopes of reducing the side effects he was experiencing. The side effects DID reappear but weren't as strong as the last round.
We also sat down with Genetics Testing and decided to send some blood work out to hopefully gets some answers for our children and childrens children! We want this to stop here!
Update #3
March 20th, 2025
Tony's tumor is a T3N1M0. That basically means that the tumor hit a few lymph nodes but didn't spread. (As far as we know) He will be starting treatment the day after his birthday (March 27th). His treatment plan so far is 12 rounds of chemotherapy and it will last about 6 months.
March 21st he goes into surgery for a chemo port. Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers!!
Update #2
March 5th, 2025
March 4th Tony & I sat down with his Cancer Team and went over a few options for treatment. We decided to go with chemotherapy due to it being stage 3. The next steps will be getting a port placed under his skin for treatment, more blood work, and chemotherapy.
His blood sugars have been better and tonight he will have the glucose monitor attached to him so he doesn't have to poke himself too much.
This past month has been overwhelming and very draining! Thank you for all of your support!
Update #1
February 23rd, 2025
March 4th we sit down with the Oncology Team and get a better look at what we are fighting. We should walk out of there with a treatment plan!
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