Loveland, CO February 19, 2013 \u2013 Ryan and Amy Green are parents to four boys between the ages of 2 and 7. In January 2010, they received some bad news. One-year-old Joel had cancer.<\/p>\n
Joel had an Atypical Teratoid\/ Rhabdoid Tumor (AT\/RT) that was successfully removed. After the surgery he was scheduled to undergo 54 weeks of treatment including chemotherapy and radiation. He never finished treatment because 10 months later he had a tumor recurrence.<\/p>\n
Joel Evan Green was declared terminal and the Greens were referred to Hospice and they were advised to sign a do not resuscitate form. However, Joel did not die. This doesn\u2019t mean the last few years haven\u2019t been difficult; Joel has had six tumor recurrences, but he isn\u2019t dead.<\/p>\n
A year ago, over lunch, Ryan and Amy first discussed the idea of writing a book.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were discussing that he\u2019s not dead yet,\u201d recalls Ryan Green. \u201cAnd then realized it was an interesting idea because we\u2019re all not dead yet. That\u2019s where the seed for the book first came from.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the name may seem startling, the concept of death is very real to the Green family. They\u2019ve seen doctors shocked and thrilled when Joel does better than expected, but they know there are no guarantees. They have found peace in the middle of all the ups and downs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese past three years could have been overshadowed by death, but instead they\u2019ve been marked by joy and love.\u201d said Green.<\/p>\n
The fact that Joel is alive is something the Green\u2019s want to shout out to the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis book is about choosing to love somebody you know you can lose,\u201d said Green. \u201cWe wanted to talk about this while we were still involved in it, not afterward, because I think you find out who you are and what you believe right in the middle of a trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Green\u2019s book, \u201cHe\u2019s Not Dead Yet\u201d faces these painful concepts head on. It is written from the perspective of an older brother, and walks through the story from the dire prognosis of terminal cancer to the fact that, a few years later, this little boy isn\u2019t dead yet. He keeps living, blowing out birthday candles, riding his trike and opening Christmas presents.<\/p>\n
While \u201cHe\u2019s Not Dead Yet\u201d looks like a children\u2019s book, it will be up to individual parents to decide whether or not it is appropriate for their child. The Greens are acutely aware that everyone is battling something, whether it\u2019s childhood cancer or some other disease or difficult life issue.<\/p>\n
The book is about how the Greens have chosen to face their situation, and they hope it will be a comfort to others struggling with their own difficult life journey.<\/p>\n
You can read about the Green\u2019s journey at www.joelevangreen.com<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s Not Dead Yet\u201d is available at www.hesnotdeadyet.com<\/a>. For more information about the content of this press release please email RyanGreen8@gmail.com<\/a> or call 303-249-8245.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Loveland, CO February 19, 2013 \u2013 Ryan and Amy Green are parents to four boys between the ages of 2 and 7. In January 2010, they received some bad news. One-year-old Joel had cancer. Joel had an Atypical Teratoid\/ Rhabdoid Tumor (AT\/RT) that was successfully removed. After the surgery he was scheduled to undergo 54 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[295,312,317,318,34,314,316,319,313,315],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cancer","tag-childhhood-cancer","tag-hes-not-dead-yet","tag-living-with-cancer","tag-loveland","tag-rhabdoid","tag-self-publishing","tag-terminal-cancer","tag-tertoid","tag-tumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannonmarcom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}