The marrow procedure went well on Wednesday and Peter bounced back afterwards almost as if he was finishing a nice long nap. He checked out of the hospital and went to Ty’s second tournament game in the afternoon, which Brainerd won in overtime against Blaine, a higher ranked opponent. It’s also noteworthy that the Blaine players have stickers on their helmets that read Keep Fighting Pete. What a nice gesture from a community far from Brainerd, but connected through hockey. It’s safe to say Wednesday was a good day.
Yesterday more scans were in order — which Peter handled effortlessly — and the initial test results came in. The conversation with Peter’s oncologist started with her saying, “I only have good news for you.”
The marrow remains clear of cancer on both sides. The tumor has continued to shrink (although it’s not known exactly how much right now). The official radiologist’s report on the torso scan isn’t complete yet, but the oncologist has looked it over and couldn’t see any evidence of cancer in the lymphatic system. Yes, the lymph nodes in his neck and chest appear to be clear of cancer. The official report on this will be coming this afternoon. At this point in the battle, Peter’s status is a shining example of exactly how you hope and pray the treatment would go.
Ty and Erika also met with the surgeon yesterday, who should be going to work on Peter’s tumor next Wednesday. That meeting also went well. He felt confident and didn’t relay any major concerns. The tumor, which was initially wrapped around a major artery, making its removal very risky, has recessed enough to be clear of that artery.
Then last night Ty’s team played for the consolation championship of the tournament and won in dramatic fashion. They came back from a 1-2 deficit with less than 5 minutes to play and won 3-2. Peter had told Ty that morning something like “if he won he’d cry in his eyes” because he’d be so happy. Well, he didn’t cry in his eyes, but there were some tears from the rest of us as the day’s great news was recapped.
I really can’t put in words how exciting the news is and how optimistic it makes everyone feel. Next week will be difficult and emotional and there is still a long way to go. It’s just so promising that this fight, with all its heartache, inconvenience and struggle, is returning results.
What a wonderful report, Matt. We continue to keep our fingers crossed, and hope that next week brings more good news. Cheers to a very Happy New Year for you, Pete, and your wonderfully supportive family.
Love, Stephanie
PETE MAN!!
Great news! Dino and I are so proud of you and your family. We knew you had this kind of fight in you. You keep fighting and this is going to be a bow out!!
Love you bunches,
Woody and Dino
Thanks for the update Matt, Erika, Ty and Family.
Congratulations on the good news.
May 2007 continue to fill your lives, especially PETER, with continued news of progress.
The Power of Prayer continues…..
Happy New Year to a remarkable family.
Colleen Faacks
Great news!! Oh, the awesome power of prayer, love and support!! May God continue to bring healing to Peter, and strength beyond measure to all of you.
Julie
Great news! We continue to pray for Peter every day. I really like the hockey “family” support, that is really nice. There is something about hockey players and caring for children. Jackie and I have people you have never met praying for Peter, and the more people who petition God, the more likely He will listen.
Rick
Well Eigners – it doesn’t happen too often but Jacob and I have cry in our eyes!!!! Lots and lots of hugs and prayers coming your way – if it works why change!!!!
Love to you all
Peter, Ty, Erika and families,
What a wonderful way to end a week of uncertainty…………
There was “cry in my eyes” after hearing the awesome news yesterday!! You have done a stand up job fighting this Peter. Keep up the good work……………many thoughts and prayers come your way as we enter a New Year with promises of GOOD health and much happiness.
Uncle Matt- It was very nice meeting you and being able to put a face to all the wonderful updates you provide “Peter’s Team”!!
Happy New Year!
Much love,
Lisa
Pete –
I almost forgot – Jacob wanted me to keep you posted –
The Pee Wee B team won their first game in the Hibbing Tournament against Eveleth. They play again at 9 or 9:30 tonight so I’ll give you an update.
I had an idea while I was sending this to you —
won’t it be the coolest when Jake Johnson coaches you!!!!!!
Ice cream cups all the time!!!!!!!!!!!
We are so excited to hear the great news! Peter, you keep amazing us.
Sorry we missed you all this week. Way to go Warriors!
Love,
Michelle
YES! YES!! YES!!! YYYYEEESSSSSSSS!!!! OH MY GOODNESS! Peter, I am shivering with chills and smiles and happiness in my heart! You are the man, Pete! You are the ultimate example of how the power of prayer works! This is the best way to start the New Year…. this is just the begining of more wonderful things to come. 2007 promises to be your year….. I am sooooo proud of you, Big Guy! We love you and will continue to send up our prayers. For you, this year, we wish for HOPE, GOOD HEALTH and ANSWERED PRAYERS. This will be the year of PROMISE…..
Love you forever, Peter!
Love, Jenni, Ryan, Emily, Lily & Parker
P.S. Tate is here… and he wanted to tell you that he pulled a tooth out today during quiet-time! Now, Emily Clare is diligently working to get her next one out!!
Peter, Ty, Erika, and family-
Great news! We are so glad to hear that you are all kicking the thing rear end! Our continued thoughts and prayers are with all of you!
Love,
The Heinen’s
Eigner Family;
What great news!!!!! A wonderful way to start the New Year.
Our wish is for the very best in 2007 and that all reports will be
as positive as the latest ones.
Happy New Year
Bob and Karen
What FANTASTIC news!! I knew someone as special and as strong as you would have no problems “fighting the bad guys!!” I am so happy for you, Pete! Way to go!! Lets jump over the next hump and kick this thing in the butt!!
Love Lisa Beck
YES! Keep it up Pete and Family! Smiles. Just got back to Minnesota and it was so greatful to get an email on Petes progress and Brd. Hockey. Way to stay focused everyone!!!!!!!!! sincerely, Shane H.
To Pete and and his very strong family:
Thank God for this INCREDIBLE news for Pete! Prayer has helped indeed, but Pete’s fight in taking on the BIG C– is a battle he has handled like a PRO! You are soooooooooooo cool Peter Eigner! Keep showing IT that you are the tuff guy!
Thanks so much for the updated email to have us all check out this most current WONDERFUL news! What a great way to start 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love, Sully
Pete- You must really be a strong kid to be winning against that cancer stuff. We are all very proud of you.
Tate lost a tooth today. He was sure excited about that. The toothfairy will probly leave him money tonight. Just think before to long you will probly lose your first tooth.
You keep fighting Peter and we will keep praying for you.
Tate, Ann and Dan Richter
Eigner family-
What great news!! Peter keep fighting!!!
Thanks for sharing the wondering news!!
Stay strong,
I would still love to get one of your COOL braclets!!
Shannon
To the whole Eigner family and our dear friend and champion of all champions,
WAHOOOOO! I am crying in my eyes and my heart is aching with joy at the wonderful news that all of your hard, hard efforts are meeting with success. Praise the Lord! While we know that your battle will continue into the New Year, we are overjoyed and so dang excited we are jumping up and down in our skin and out. Peter it definitely sounds like Santa and all of God’s angels have been showering you with the power of your family and friends’ prayers. I look forward to you sharing your next round of results and pray that they are just as great!
Keep Fighting Peter. You are AMAZING!
The Bastians
Peter – Hey Buddy!! I’m so glad everything is turning around for you. Guess what? We are back on the same schedule again. I’ll be having surgery on the 3rd also. After that I think I should be the same as you through everything else too. Today I went ice fishing but my boyfriend says I’m bad luck cuz we didn’t get anything – I guess we need you to come fish with us! Well I’ll be seeing you all hopefully next week.
Mary Virnig
Yea!!! We are so happy to hear your great news! 2007 is looking to be a great year! Keep fighting Peter- this thing doesn’t have a chance! We will keep praying that next week God is with you and give you the strength that you need to take this head on and win!
Happy New Year!
Greg Brenda Brooke & Ty
YAY! We couldn’t be happier for you all.
Peter robert and family.
Peter, I can’t tell you how happy I am for you and your family. I know how life with “C” feels…like a roller coaster – chemo, waiting, tests, waiting… I am “crying in my eyes” and heart for you all. 2007 is going to be great!
All my thoughts,
Bambi
Great to see and hear, Pete and family. I believe this fight has rubbed off on the hockey team. They have been a part of your experience and the experience of giving from so many people. They have to be looking @ your situation, Pete and can’t help but believe that anything is possible. They also must realize when you give good things happen in return.
Every thing that happened shows that there is more to an attitude and a swagger than there is to talent itself.
You have both, Pete. Looks like the hockey team has, too. Keep up the good fight!
-ole gringo-
Peter John, I’m sure you are home and tucked in your bed by now but I want to tell you that I love you and your sisters and your Mom and Dad very much and I’m thrilled with the news from your doctors. I will sleep well tonight.
The Eigner Christmas was fun today. It is so much fun to see you, your sisters and your cousins playing together and fighting a little bit. I look forward to many more Christmas get togethers that are crazy, fun and full of love. Next year I want you to wear the same kind of pants that Uncle Trent had on today!!!!!!!
Sleep tight and enjoy the snow in Brainerd tomorrow.
Gramma Mary
Shannon Haugh e-mail me. maryeigner@comcast.net
Peter your doing such a great job fighting your lumps. We have not forgot about you and have continued to pray for you all the way in Hawaii. We met a three year old boy her that will be taking his lumps out next week too. Know that we send you and your family lots of prayers and aloha from Hawaii. Team Mersburgh, Dan, Charlene, Thomas, Rebekah and Ruth
Dear Peter,
I saw Chuck Grillo at a rink in Massachussetts yesterday, and he let me know about the battle you are fighting. Your dad and I know each other through hockey; I used to coach at Yale, but now I coach at a prep school in Connecticut. My team and I are thinking of you, and we wish you all the best on the road to recovery. Your spirit and fight are inspirational … people on the East Coast are thinking of you!
All the best, Peter. Maybe I will see you this summer at Mr. Grillo’s hockey camp.
Warmly,
Bruce Wolanin and Pomfret Boys’s Hockey
Peter and family,
I know Rod Peltoma through work and have been following your progress since this last fall. Way to go Pete and family. This is truly a blessed Christmas Season.
Our daughter, Sam, plays hockey for the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle-Wadena-Deer Creek Blue Devils and were in the cities this week for the Schwanns Cup. The Blue Devils didn’t fair as well as your beloved Warriors but it is hockey and so was fun anyway.
Keep up the good fight Pete. Your and your parents and sisters are in the thoughts and prayers of many many people.
The Lemkes
Dave, Cindy, Sam and Andrew
WAY TO GO PETER……….
WHAT FANTASTIC NEWS. We had hoped to visit with you all at Uncle Troy’s house yesterday but Aunt roz is sick. Her tests aren’t going as well as yours. We are so glad that you all had a wonderful Christmas and GREAT NEWS for the new year………..
love
Uncle Ed and Aunt roz
Way to go Peter! We just KNEW it would be great news!!!!
When this is all over Peter, you and your family might want nothing more than to forget all of this ever happened. But do you realize how much all of this will help you (and others) in the future to look back on? What you are going through right now will help you be successful at anything you set your mind to for the rest of your life…whether that’s to be an awesome hockey player, or to get good grades to go on to a good college, or to get a good job to buy that cool car you want.
You are learning very young that not everything in life will come easy, but the important things in life are worth fighting for. And at times, even though an opponent may appear stronger than you, you can still beat them (just like our boys beat some tough opponents in their tournament this week!). With hard work, strong faith and a relentless attitude to never give up, and a great support system, you can do anything!
Keep fighting Peter – the Swanson gang is cheering hard for you for a strong finish in 2007!
Cary, Lori, Luke, Brooke and Erica
Way to go Peter!!!
We are all so proud of you, Keep fighting, you are winning. 2007 will be good to you. Good luck …the next week will be a tough one but you have a huge cheering section. PETER EIGNER…YES!
Prayers are sent yout way.
The Musielewicz’s
Hi Pete Man
You are so amazing. You are like the Everyready bunny, you just keep on beating this thing. You are teaching all of us out here so much about life and positive attitudes. You have shown us that if you keep a positive attitude, keep your spirit up and believe you can so something, that it all pays off. I bet up in heaven on Jesus prayer line, that you have a phone with “Peters Prayers” on it and it just keeps on ringing. I am so happy for you and your family. I am doing the happy dance right now. Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope 2007 will be a grand year for you all.
Love Ya Buddy
Jill S.
Well, guess what – I too have ‘cry in my eyes’ !! What incredibly, fantastic news!! Jen was calling me yesterday to tell me the site news as I was ringing her doorbell. Wasn’t till just now I was able to get on; all of EVERYONES prayers are being listened too!!
Good luck with the upcoming steps in this battle. Such wonderful news to begin 2007. Happy New Year to you all! I look forward to seeing the 3 adorable Eigner kids at the Kelley’s on my now-and-then lunch time visits. Peter – we are all so very excited for you to wrap this long chapter up in you life!!
Thinking of you all with love and prayers!
Peg and Ron
Great news Peter!, way to battle. You are an inspiration to us as well as many others! Keep up the great fight. A toast to you and your loved ones for continued success on your road to victory in the upcoming new year! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Rob, Carol, Brandon & Briana
Peter,
WOW, you’re sticking it to the “path thing”! So happy to hear the GREAT news. We know you still have a little more fighting left to do, but this thing doesn’t stand a chance!!!! Happy New Year to you all.
Kim and Kyle
Way to go Pete. What great news to start a new year!! I really hope our boys can show as much strength and courage you have over the last few months. Believe me we talk to them about what you are up against and how well you have handled it.
Happy New Year’s guys! We will toast one tonight in your family’s honor with hopes of a very happy 2007.
Good tourney Ty!!
The Mittelstadt’s
Oh, Peter, you are amazing the way you are being so strong!! I loved the first words out of the oncologist’s mouth…”all I have is good news!” What wonderful words to hear and to start out with such encuragement in the new year. We wish you all the very best…
Dee and Jim
Eigner Family,
I will remember Peter and your family in my prayers. Both John and Jason have been keeping me up to date on Peter and now I have his website.
I feel good things happening in 2007.
PS What beautiful little children you have………….aren’t they the greatest!
Sincerely,
Vonnie Sundberg