Support Justin Severs' Fight Against Cancer

17/07/2025

📣 Justin’s July PET Scan Results – Trending the Right Way! 🩻

Today we met with Justin’s doctor to get the July scan results, and the progress since January has been incredible. 🙌

Here’s a breakdown of a few of the tumors, showing just how far things have come:

🫁 Primary Lung Tumor (Left Lower Lobe)
• January: 4.5 cm | SUV 10.0
• April: 2.5 cm | SUV 2.4
• July: 2.3 cm | SUV 1.7

🦠 Right Subpectoral Lymph Node
• January: Not mentioned
• April: SUV 2.4
• July: SUV 2.8

🦠 Right Paratracheal Lymph Node
• January: 3.2 cm | SUV 13.1
• April: 1.3 cm | SUV 2.4
• July: Not mentioned

🦠 Preaortic Lymph Node
• January: 2.5 cm | SUV 11.5
• April: 1.2 cm | SUV 1.1
• July: Not mentioned

🦠 Left Supraclavicular Lymph Node
• January: 1.5 cm | SUV 10.5
• April: 5 mm | SUV less than 1
• July: Not mentioned

🦴 Ribs
• January: SUV 7.7
• April: SUV 3.4
• July: SUV 2.8

🆕 New: A tiny left subpectoral node showed up in July with low SUV 2.1.

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🧠 What is SUV?

SUV stands for Standardized Uptake Value — it measures how much radioactive glucose a spot in the body “lights up” on a PET scan.

🟡 Higher SUV = more activity, which could mean cancer.
🟢 Lower SUV = less activity, which often means healing or no cancer.

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Bottom line:

The July scan shows continued positive momentum, no new significant disease, and major reductions in tumor size and metabolic activity since January. 🙏

Thank you all for your ongoing prayers, encouragement, and support. Justin is very grateful for all of you! 💙

14/07/2025

It’s Houston Week! ✈️🎗️🤍

Justin and Kelley will be heading to Houston on Tuesday. Wednesday will be a full day of testing, and Thursday morning they’ll meet with Justin’s doctor at MD Anderson to review updated test results before flying back home.

Please say an extra prayer as they prepare for an important week ahead. 🤍🙏

10/06/2025

Team members Justin, Ervie, and Matt are out showing there support for a fellow Saginaw Twp officer battling cancer!
Officer Justin Severs is currently battling cancer whiling fighting for his life, he’s been undergoing lots of treatments throughout this journey!
We have your back Support Justin Severs' Fight Against Cancer!

06/06/2025

NOT GOLFING TOMORROW? ⛳️ NO PROBLEM!

You're still welcome to come and 💲 bid 💲 on items from 10-1!

We have SO MANY goodies for you to choose from! 🎁

A 4-piece patio set, a fire table, a getaway to Bavarian Inn complete with passes to Bavarian Blast, a wagon chock-full of booze, gift cards galore, a two-night stay at one of the top AirBnBs in Frankenmuth and much, much more!

We are so excited to see you all tomorrow! Looking like it will be a beautiful day! 🌞

19/05/2025

Please share if you'd be so kind! 🫶

We are in search of sponsors and silent auction items for the Team Severs Golf Tournament on June 7th. ⛳️

As you know, Saginaw Township Police Detective Justin Severs is battling stage 4 lung cancer despite never smoking or va**ng in his life.

It's meant trips to MD Anderson in Houston, countless doctor's visits and, of course, a new perspective on the fragility of life.
Through his work as a detective, youth football coach and co-founder of Carter Kits Sensory Bags, he's helped thousands not just in our area but also around the world.

Now, it's time to show him, his wife and his three boys some support.

We are still looking for...
🍔 1 food sponsor 🍔
🍾 1 bottle bonanza sponsor 🍾
⛳️ hole sponsors ⛳️
🎁 silent auction items 🎁
and 🙋‍♀️ volunteers ! 🙋‍♂️

Sign up using the links below! 👇

1️⃣ Premier Sponsorships
Food Sponsor (1 left): $2,000 + free foursome
Bottle Bonanza: $500
Sign up here: [https://tinyurl.com/premiersponsorships]

2️⃣ Silent Auction Items
Donate as an individual or organization
Sign up here:
[https://tinyurl.com/teamseverssilentauctionitems]

3️⃣ Volunteer on tournament day
Multiple shifts available
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4️⃣ Hole Sponsors
$100 each
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**At this time, all golf spots are booked**

Send a message to learn more

13/05/2025

The countdown is on to the Team Severs Golf Tournament on Saturday, June 7th at Timbers in Vassar! ⛳️

We are still looking for...

🍔 1 food sponsor 🍔

🍾 1 bottle bonanza sponsor 🍾

⛳️ hole sponsors ⛳️

🎁 silent auction items 🎁

and 🙋‍♀️ volunteers 🙋!

Sign up using the links below! 👇👇

1️⃣ Premier Sponsorships
▪️ Food Sponsor (1 left): $2,000 + free foursome
▪️ Bottle Bonanza: $500
▪️ Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/premiersponsorships

2️⃣ Silent Auction Items
▪️ Donate as an individual or organization
▪️ Sign up here:
https://tinyurl.com/teamseverssilentauctionitems

3️⃣ Volunteer on tournament day
▪️ Multiple shifts available
▪️ Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/teamseversvolunteers

4️⃣ Hole Sponsors
▪️ $100 each
▪️ Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/teamseversholesponsors

25/04/2025

We are a little more than a month away from the big day! 🏌️

We are still looking for...

⛳️ hole sponsors ⛳️

🎁 silent auction items 🎁

and 🙋‍♀️ volunteers 🙋!

Sign up using the links below! 👇👇

1️⃣ Hole Sponsors
▪️ $100 each
▪️ Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/teamseversholesponsors

2️⃣ Silent Auction Items
▪️ Donate as an individual or organization
▪️ Sign up here:
https://tinyurl.com/teamseverssilentauctionitems

3️⃣ Volunteer on tournament day
▪️ Multiple shifts available
▪️ Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/teamseversvolunteers

17/04/2025

Today we met with my doctor, Dr. Gibbons at MD Anderson, regarding my 2 months scans. Doctor Gibbons stated I had a lot of cancer in a lot of bad places in January… and in 2 months have made REMARKABLE progress! For example, one tumor went from 4.5cm to 2.5cm. Doctor Gibbons also said the radiation was successful on my rib!

Doctor Gibbons said while I have experienced a lot of the side effects with the meds he was VERY happy with the progress and used the words “amazing progress” several times! I guess the side effects are a small price to pay for the success the med has had!

We also learned the type of cancer I have his not genetic as in passed from family members, but it was created by my own genetic cells in my body and would not be something that will be transferred to the kids! THANK GOD 🙏

The next step will be to complete blood work while we continue to try to minimize the side effects of the cancer med. We will be returning to Houston in June to do more blood work, another PET CT Scan, and another MRI of the brain to make sure no cancer has went to my head, to verify the medicine is working!

I have to thank God for answering all our prayers 🙏 and ask for continued prayers as we continue to fight this monster!

15/04/2025

Good morning ☀️

This morning Justin and I head to Houston for his first scan since starting his cancer medicine. I know everyone has been praying hard for us, but if you could pray a little extra over the next couple days, we would really appreciate it! 😘

Love you all! 🤍🤍

30/03/2025

UPDATE:

This past week was spring break for the boys and while we weren’t able to vacation, we had some fun!

On Thursday we had passes and went Splash Village where I found out my neuropathy felt WAY better in the heat and humidity. Upon walking into the water park, I felt almost immediate relief and felt great the rest of the day. Guess we need to buy a sauna 🤷‍♂️ lol.

On Friday, I was able to introduce the 3 boys to an old buddy of mine, JD! I used to work with JD before he left to work security for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thanks to him, we had a great night and got to watch the Pistons beat his Cavs lol. We made a day of it and the boys also got to hit up Top Golf before the game!

Yesterday, Cayden and I made an impromptu trip back to Detroit for our first ever Red Wings game. Wow! What an experience. The hockey crowd is built different LOL. Cayden loved it and it was great to see!

This week I also met with the radiologist who cleared me from my radiation treatments and said I won’t need to come back unless I have problems. They told me my ribs will be weak for a very long time where the cancer ate away the bone and they are hopeful the radiation got rid of the cancer that was in there.

On April 15 we will head back to Houston for testing on the 16th and to meet with Dr. Gibbons on the 17th to see if the radiation and medication I’ve been taking is working.

In the meantime, while we wait for my appointment in Houston, and also continue to navigate the neuropathy, life must go on. I have decided to return to work and will report back tomorrow on light duty. I’m hopeful for good news in April that will allow me to continue to stay at work and get back to full duty while we continue this FIGHT.

22/03/2025

Update:

Last week, Justin had blood drawn to see how the medicine was affecting him. The 3 big concerns with the medicine is it affecting kidney and liver function as well as raising cholesterol levels. During his appointment there was no mention of the kidney and liver being affected but they have said his cholesterol “skyrocketed”. So, they started him on a new medicine for that.

Also, for the past couple weeks, he’s been experiencing neuropathy, another known side effect. After speaking to the doctor, they added Gabapentin to his daily medicine. He’s been on it for a couple days, but the pains are still there.

The big date will be April 16-17 when they head back to MD Anderson for a PET Scan and MRI of the brain to see if the cancer medicine has been working.

While wanting to return to work to get some normalcy in life, he’s still not been able to as the neuropathy started right after he got off the opioid pain medicine.

On a positive note, he got to watch his youngest son’s Peer-To-Peer basketball game last week in which his middle son helped and played on Carter’s team! Eagle Eye Photography got this awesome picture of the two of them!

13/03/2025

🚨🚨 Payment is due TOMORROW for golf foursomes 🚨🚨

Please email TeamSeversGolf@gmail.com to arrange payment if you haven't already! We do have drop-off options for check or cash!

We do have people on a waitlist, so we'd hate to see you lose your spot!