This Year's Recipients
Amber McGhee
In the summer of 2024 Amber began to have pains in her hips that moved to her legs, like a warm radiating pain that ached from the inside out like it was coming from her bones and occasional painful sharp shooting sensations. Amber figured it was arthritis or something. When it started to become an everyday pain sometime in October 2024, she made a Dr. appt, the Dr. ordered a bunch of labs. Right around that time, she started having strange headaches on the right side of her head and that went from the top of her head down to around her jaw, unlike anything she had felt before. In mid Nov 2024, the labs were coming back alarmingly abnormal, and her Dr. wanted her to come in and discuss them. This resulted in Amber being sent to the ER the same day to get stat imaging of her abdomen where she was admitted and diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma. A form of liver cancer that starts in the bile ducts and causes tumors to spread.
After being hospitalized and a magnitude of biopsies and tests, she found out it had metastasized to her bones, including her skull. This cancer has no cure and remission is most unlikely…very rare but not impossible. Since her diagnosis Amber has endured treatments and medications that have caused many side effects, which can be very serious and painful too, sometimes leading to sometimes days or more being stuck in bed. Random ailments out of nowhere required stat imaging and/or testing.
With the stage, severity and aggressive type of her specific cancer, she is under the impression that it’s a slower process to really start seeing many results. After the need for an updated MRI of her head recently, they were able to confirm that radiation is working on the one tumor on her skull and it is shrinking!!
Scott Stover
Scott is the founder of the Game Feed. He started the event at his house in Eatonville about 20 years ago as a gathering to get together with friends and family and enjoy wild game meat.
In the Spring of 2024, Scott received blood work from the doctor that indicated extremely high Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Levels. In the proceeding months Scott continued to receive additional testing and scans and was officially diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. His Gleeson score, which is a system used to grade the aggressiveness of prostate cancer, is an 8. This is the highest grade of prostate cancer and has a higher risk of spreading or growing quickly.
In February 2025, additional testing confirmed the cancer spread to his lymph nodes. The recommended treatment from his oncologist is 2 years of intensive hormone therapy and radiation for 5 days a week for 45 days.