Bart's granddaughter Bridget loves to see Bart fish. Says Barb Peluso: "She knows as long as Grandpa is fishing, he is OK!"
This is a love story.
Bart and Barb Peluso drive an RV on vacations. They enjoy spending time with family. In fact, Barb, a midwife, delivered some of their grandchildren. Bart, who turned 70 in December, over the past decade has built with one of his sons a successful Davie, Fla., marketing company called Everything Tradeshows.
?We?re just regular people,? Barb said.
About a year ago, while Bart and Barb visited the San Francisco area ?doing the wine country thing,? Barb said, Bart didn?t feel quite right. As time went by, he increasingly complained about pain in his gut. Barb thought it might be a kidney stone, and she sent him to an urologist, who ordered an MRI.
The images showed multiple masses on Bart?s liver. He had liver cancer.
The Pelusos looked at their options, namely treatments and transplant. But because Bart?s liver wasn?t as ravaged as someone with hepatitis, for example, he didn?t meet the criteria for a transplant.
?He doesn?t have a drinking history. He doesn?t have a drug history. He doesn?t have hepatitis,? Barb said. ?He was just a guy who had bad luck.?
Bart?s first step was interventional radiology, where ?spears? of radiation were shot directly at the largest tumor as a way of containing the cancer.
?You don?t survive liver cancer, you just try to keep it where it is,? Barb said.
Three treatments later ? with side effects like a rare radiation ulcer but little pain ? doctors spotted dead liver cancer cells. The treatments were working.
But because you can have only so much radiation, Barb said, Bart hasn?t received a fourth treatment.
Ron Leuty covers biotech, higher education and China for the San Francisco Business Times.
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