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September 17th, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Hey Everyone! Here’s a post from Ryan and Brooke: Hello! We’ve had quite the week this week. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get the Corporate Angels program to work for a free plane ride, so Brooke and I left from Chicago and headed to Philadelphia earlier this week. We saw the Penn... [READ MORE]

September 1st, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Update from Ryan and Brooke: Hey Everyone! Brooke and I can't thank you enough for all of your support. Everyone who has reached out, donated and shared the Go Fund Me has been so helpful and we are incredibly grateful. We have had an incredibly busy week. Not only are Brooke and... [READ MORE]

August 25th, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

New Update from Ryan- Hi Everyone - We've been a little quiet for the past few weeks because we aren't sure exactly how to write this update. The initial plan that we had for post radiation/chemo may need to be changed.We had a visit with my oncologist last Friday, and she... [READ MORE]

August 3rd, 202

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Update from Ryan: Hi everybody, The past 2 days has been a whirlwind of struggle and emotions. On Tuesday morning, I started having severe abdominal pain. It continued to get worse as the day went along. I was able to coach Asher's last baseball game, but the pain started to spread to... [READ MORE]

July 28th, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Update from Ryan: Hi all, Back at it yesterday! Treatment #29 ✅ My platelets are pretty low this week, but I was able to still get my treatment yesterday. Low platelets = risk for bleeding issues so I have to watch myself and not get injured. The plan is for one more treatment next week... [READ MORE]

July 7th, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Update from Ryan: Hi everybody, I wanted to give an update on what has been going on lately in my fight against cancer. Back in June I started and finished radiation. The radiation I had was a very high beam dose, and I was able to complete it in three rounds. This... [READ MORE]

June 12th, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Update from Ryan: Hi all, I wanted to send a health update and what has been happening lately in our lives. Since the last update, we met with a radiation oncologist at University of Iowa Hospitals. I will be starting high-dose targeted radiation therapy tomorrow. The plan is to get radiation every... [READ MORE]

May 23rd, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Hello Everyone- here’s an update from Ryan: Hi All! Now that things have settled down, we wanted to give everyone an update. I celebrated my 39th birthday with what was potentially my last chemotherapy. Brooke surprised me by bringing the kids and balloons to celebrate; it was quite the surprise. I was... [READ MORE]

April 12th, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Hi Rally for Ryan supporters! Here’s an update from Brooke: Hi all! It’s been a while since we’ve updated, but things have been chugging along very well and we didn’t have much to update until last week. Ryan had a monitoring CT scan to check on how things look on his liver.... [READ MORE]

March 12th, 2023

by Ryan Dwars
6/2/2024

Hey All- here’s an update from Brooke: Hey Everyone! It’s been awhile since we updated, but besides minor side effects, there isn’t a whole lot to update right now. Today marks two years exactly that Ryan went to the ER with what was supposed indigestion, and our world was turned upside... [READ MORE]