Lightner: Son Doing Well Undergoing Treatment

Less than two weeks after arriving in Belgium to , Glenn Lightner is doing well and has undergone one minor surgery so far, according to his father, Larry Lightner.

That surgery, Larry Lightner said in an email to Long Valley Patch, was to insert a small catheter in Glenn’s leg. From there, Glenn’s blood was cycled through a machine that extracts white blood cells, Lightner said.

In a week’s time, a laboratory will be attaching proteins from the tumor to the white blood cells, and Glenn will receive injections of the mixture, Lightner said.

The injections will begin at the end of this week, he said.

“Glenn is handling it like a trooper and Silvia is doing well,” Lightner said of his son and wife. He’ll head back to Long Valley on Easter Sunday and return at the end of the month to be with Glenn for an additional three weeks, he said.

The family has also found a furnished business apartment to stay in during their time overseas, rather than living in a hotel, Lightner said.

Since the family went public with their eldest son’s condition, Long Valley, as a community, has poured out as much help as possible with fundraisers and other ways to benefit the family’s need to pursue alternative medicine.

To learn more about Glenn Lightner’s journey, and how the community has rallied around him, go here.