Friday, April 30, 2010

baffled and enigma

So a Dr. Millikan came in this morning...he apparently works with Dr.Tannir. The first thing he said to J after he introduced himself was that they"were baffled and that Jason is an enigma." He said that they thought the whatever in J's hip could be one of two things. 1. an infection..be it fungal, parasitic, tuberculosis, they would not know until a core biopsy. 2. teratoma with transformation. From what the dr. said we DO NOT WANT THIS. We went and got the core biopsy and the nurse that was with Jason said that she did not know what it was they saw but it did not look like any tumor that she has seen. ( They did the biopsy through ct guidance because of the fracture in his hip.) We wont know anything til Monday at the earliest supposedly so I guess we just cool our jets until then. We both had our break downs earlier today, I went and talked with a chaplain and now we are ready to face whatever is before us again.. Please, Please pray guys, the power of them are amazing!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Back in the old routine.....

So we are back at MDANderson's Er. The middle of the day is the time to come...there was no one here. We have a room in the er dept and the visitor chair is not too bad. So thats good for me. We are here for Jason to be evaluated for possible spinal cord compression. He has been having some pretty bad pain and a few other symptoms popped up so I went ahead and called the clinic today. I got the charge nurse..the same one who was not very helpful this past week became all kinds of helpful when I told her Jason's symptoms. She did a 3way call with Dr. Tannir's PA and Zita(said PA) told us to come to the ER for evaluation. So here we be. They have drawn blood, given him some steroids and painkillers, and he is currently stuck in a tube somewhere for an MRI. The best case senario if it turns out to be spinal cord compression is that its just swelling and irriation from the pelvis fracture and working on my car, worse case senario is tumors compressing the spinal cord. Either way we should know some more in a couple of hours. I will update again when we know. Prayers are welcome.