March 9th - "The first day...
... of the best year of our lives."
This first post is a "catch up" post - they will not be this long typically!
In December 2005, while we were away for Christmas with family, Jody noticed a lump near the clavicle. When we returned home, she told me about it and then made an appointment with her doctor. He did not think much of it - "maybe a swollen gland". After two weeks, he saw her again and ordered an MRI of the neck because he "didn't like how it looked". Once he saw the MRI, he was still unsure what this was so he sent us to our "family" doctor. Jody rarely gets sick - a handful of colds in our 18 years of marriage - I usually get something once a year - so we rarely see doctors. The only doctor we knew was our ear, nose, throat doctor.
It's now early March. Our ENT doctor ordered an x-ray of the chest but admitted he didn't know what was going on, and made us an appointment the next day with his associate. We met with the associate the next day with our X-ray (with the marking "suspicious for malignancy" ) and neck MRI, and he was the first to use the word tumor, and ordered a chest MRI, and a biopsy. The Lord blessed every step - and in 24 hours we had both in hand and met with the doctor again. The reports indicated a 6 cm mass in the right lung, and the pathology of the tumor in the neck indicated markers consistent with non small cell adenocarcinoma of the lung. It was March 9th, a day we'll not soon forget because of the shock; but more importantly because of the way God protected our hearts. His Word has trained us not to panic but to trust Him!
The staging on the original report estimated Stage II. We have since learned that in fact it is Stage IIIB.
James 4:14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
This first post is a "catch up" post - they will not be this long typically!
In December 2005, while we were away for Christmas with family, Jody noticed a lump near the clavicle. When we returned home, she told me about it and then made an appointment with her doctor. He did not think much of it - "maybe a swollen gland". After two weeks, he saw her again and ordered an MRI of the neck because he "didn't like how it looked". Once he saw the MRI, he was still unsure what this was so he sent us to our "family" doctor. Jody rarely gets sick - a handful of colds in our 18 years of marriage - I usually get something once a year - so we rarely see doctors. The only doctor we knew was our ear, nose, throat doctor.
It's now early March. Our ENT doctor ordered an x-ray of the chest but admitted he didn't know what was going on, and made us an appointment the next day with his associate. We met with the associate the next day with our X-ray (with the marking "suspicious for malignancy" ) and neck MRI, and he was the first to use the word tumor, and ordered a chest MRI, and a biopsy. The Lord blessed every step - and in 24 hours we had both in hand and met with the doctor again. The reports indicated a 6 cm mass in the right lung, and the pathology of the tumor in the neck indicated markers consistent with non small cell adenocarcinoma of the lung. It was March 9th, a day we'll not soon forget because of the shock; but more importantly because of the way God protected our hearts. His Word has trained us not to panic but to trust Him!
The staging on the original report estimated Stage II. We have since learned that in fact it is Stage IIIB.
James 4:14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
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