Home From Hospital - Thank You For Emails

Shipmates:

Good morning.....finally have a bit of strength back in order to post an update to you on my return home from the Portsmouth VA Naval Hospital after my IL-2 treatments for my melanoma cancer. And I have to say 2 things that I have learned this past week and one-half:

* There are some terrific and caring sailors in our Navy who passed on some wonderfully kind words via email to my wife and I...and it shows you why the Navy family is the best in the world.

* And two: there are some enormously dedicated and supportive Doctors, Nurses, and Corpsman in both the Cancer Ward and in ICU at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. My wife and I could not have been happier with the attention I received, especially when I had to be sent at one point to ICU due to low blood pressure. They were all wonderful people and provided fantastic care.

So I am home for now. On 30 day CONV Leave and recuperating to see in a month or so how this treatment may have worked.

Will do my best to keep updating the web site for you all in preparation for your next exams.

For now, thank you again.....I have a great wife, family, friends, AND command keeping watch over me. Your prayers and short emails of support --- you just don't realize how important those are.

Regards, SKCS(SW/AW) Chuck Zwierzynski