Thursday, December 2, 2010

What a roller coaster of a day!  For several weeks prior to today - Randy has been experiencing severe back pain.  He has one of those stubborn man streaks and chose not to go to the dr. until the pain was unbearable.  They did x-rays 2 weeks prior to today and found nothing.  He called the dr. back and told her there has to be something that is causing me this much pain.  She sends him for blood work and an MRI with Contrast.  About an hour following the misery of the MRI - the Dr. herself is making a personal phone call to let him know the inevitable - Cancer is present and has reared it's ugly head in full force.  Not at all what either of us had expected to hear. Randy has several lesions on his spine and possibly inside his spinal cord that have metastisized.  We both thought a disc problem and the surgeon would make it all better.   Not so much.  She manages to get us a 9:00 a.m. appointment with the Neurosurgeon. That is amazing to me.  So we'll see what he says about all this.  We discussed how we didn't want anybody to know.  Telling our kids tomorrow will be one of the toughest things we have had to do.  Pray for us as we search for the strentgh to inform our families of our uncertainty.