Nick Asoian’s Recovery

At the Rolex Grand Am at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah

First Day of Ski Season �09/'10 Well everyone I can't believe that today is actually the first day of ski season this year! Loveland opened up the earliest they have ever opened in forty years. However, I drove back to Denver from Vail and I'm not quite sure what they were skiing on up there. "White Ribbon of Death" might have a new meaning with an opening this early. Well first I want to invite everyone to Spill tomorrow night for the first official benefit fundraiser for me. Spill is located on Market St. between 14th and 15th in Downtown Denver. Thanks to Richie Hadley and Spill for hosting the event, thanks to Bryon Friedman for coming to rock the house with his band, thanks to Ellen and Matt for pretty much taking care of everything, and to everyone else thank you and I hope this turns out to be awesome. We should have some amazing swag to be given as door prizes, some signed equipment from local pro sports teams, tickets to many sports games, nights in Vail, and many other great prizes. There is even a rumor that there may be some pro athletes showing up! It should be a great time and a chance to see many old friends and make some new ones; I hope to see everyone there. Well onto my health. After my last PET scan I got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that all of the cancer is gone except for this one "hot spot" which may turn out to be nothing. Unfortunately the bad news was that because of this "hot spot" I had to have a surgery on my chest to find out why this particular spot had been unaffected by the chemo treatment. The surgery consisted of three cuts into the left side of my chest where the doctor would deflate my left lung and the remove as much or all of the mass in order to do a biopsy of it. The surgery went very well and all was going smoothly until the next day. The day after surgery I started to feel sharp pains in my lower chest which became worse as the day went on. Finally at around 12:30am the second night the doctors had to put a chest tube back into my chest in order to release the air and blood that was accumulating in my lung cavity. Even with over twice the regular dose of pain medicine it was the most painful thing I have ever felt. Thanks to my wonderful girlfriend Sarah for staying all those nights with me and holding my hand as they put the chest tube into me! So here we are again on the first day of the ski season for 2009/2010 and the day before the first fundraiser event being held at Spill in Denver. Before the events tomorrow I have to see both the chest surgeon and the Oncologist to find out the results of the biopsy and to make sure that I am healing well from the surgery. I will try to let everyone know those results tomorrow night at Spill and ASAP here on the website as well as my upcoming treatment schedule. Happy ski season and talk to you again soon. Nick