God has been with us every step of this journey. Everything in our whole lives has been perfectly designed. He took us to the ER that night to find all this....let me list the ways he has worked already through this: 1. My dad volunteered to go get seen at ER for nausea/vomiting. Dad wanted to wait out his heart attack at home, going for stomach problems is not something I could have imagined him doing. On August 18th he asks Mom to call and wake me so I can take him. 2. We chose Dr. Moore as his gall bladder surgeon instead of anyone from the list the ER gave us. They were reluctant but ultimately agreed. We had worked on dads foot with him and felt he best understood the infection risk of Dad and surgery. This is a critical choice although at the time it feels like a no brainier. 3. Dr. Moore is still concerned with what hospital says is hemangioma (benign liver cyst) sends us for contrast CT. He could have scheduled his gall bladder removal and been done but says he had an uneasy feeling looking at the original CT. Assures us he agrees but wants just one more enhanced peek. 4. Contrast dye indicates an issue and biopsy ordered. With another plain CT results would not have shown anything more than hemangioma. Contrast dye rims the tumor indicating there could be an issue. Biopsy shows the tumor is in fact malignant. 5. Gets sick with H Pylori and ulcer. Inpatient at Griffin 8 days still sick, we insist he move to Emory instead of going home to rest for 2 weeks. 6. MRI at Emory reviewed by lead oncology surgeon and 7 surgeons that work for him. We are talking Doctors that do nothing but cut out cancer and look at cancer on MRIs all day long. NONE of them see anything more. Reassure us that liver mass came from no where else, but say to wait on Radiologist read before we are 100%. Dr. Tells us Radiologist is just back in the hospital that day. He reads MRI and spots pancreatic tumor that measures 1 cm in diameter. Inside your body that is a needle in the stack of needles because of size and location. 7. Biopsy reveals, much to everyones relief Pancreatic tumor and liver tumor are not related. Dad joins a very small percentage of people in the world that have two different malignant tumors, that are unrelated, and both operable. None of the Doctors on this team have ever seen this. Dad is again gotta be different. 8. Surgeon agrees surgery is still the way to go, but wants to take a look around with the scope before he removes the tumors. 9. Daddy signs to allow them to collect both tumors from the surgery to be studied at Emory. When meligniencies are found this team breaks scrub and gets new biopsies under microscopes within minutes. The pancreatic cancer has metastisized. 9. CTCA says 4-6 month wait, a friend has connections and gets us in. This was not just improbable but seemed impossible. Still God removed that road block! In a non believers eyes these may all be coincidence, but they are design. If at any time one piece shifts the outcome is different and he is dead in 6-15 months. God is on time every time!!! Mary
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 03:34:48 +0000
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