{"id":236,"date":"2012-10-04T01:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T01:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobhickford.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:28:50","slug":"place-of-origin-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobhickford.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"WHAM!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we went in for our CT scan.\u00a0 All went pretty well.\u00a0 They told us we would have to sedate Jake, we didn’t.\u00a0 He did great.\u00a0He did need an IV and that wasn’t a nice experience\u00a0but we were in and out in a couple of\u00a0hours.\u00a0\u00a0The nurse that was overseeing us was nice enough but not overly warm and fuzzy, but as we left the CT scan, her demeanor\u00a0changed.\u00a0 She brought Jake two very nice toys for being so brave and then she hugged me, told me to be strong, and she would be praying for us.\u00a0 Henry and I just looked at each other, both of us thinking that was odd.\u00a0 Today we found out why.\u00a0\u00a0 Our meetings have usually consisted of words like tumor and mass and anomalies. The word cancer hasn’t been used that often.\u00a0 This gave me hope, even though the definition of all of those always circle back to the word cancer. They had prepped us that they felt “the place of\u00a0 origin\u00a0<\/em>would be found elsewhere, probably in the abdomen”.\u00a0 All I’ve been praying for is that it’s not there.\u00a0 We can deal with\u00a0bone cancer but it’s hard to wrap your mind around the idea that your child could have cancer in the abdomen – the abdomen is so vague and vast. I’ve been praying and praying and praying all day, all night, every waking moment… “God please take this, don’t let it be in his abdomen”.\u00a0 Our doctors entered the room together, they sat down and began.\u00a0 “It is cancer.\u00a0 It has all of the characteristics of Neuroblastoma and just as we suspected the origin is in Jake’s abdomen.\u00a0 The mass is about the size of a grapefruit and there are spots in the\u00a0liver.\u00a0 The next step is to biopsy and we can do that tomorrow.”\u00a0 The LIVER!?? I couldn’t breath.\u00a0 Henry’s eyes welled up, his voice was unsteady.\u00a0 He asked a couple of questions. They said the abdomen, they never mentioned the liver.\u00a0 How\u00a0could they know that though, right?\u00a0 They continued, “We’d like to start treatments as soon as possible…\u00a0Jake will need a chest port.\u00a0 We can do that at the same time as the biopsy.\u00a0 And while he’s under we need to get bone marrow and see if it’s in the marrow.”\u00a0 WHAM!!!\u00a0 We were stunned… how much more?\u00a0 When will we know everything?\u00a0 What is the biopsy good for? So many questions and they answered them all .\u00a0 We found that the biopsy stages his cancer and it gives them the cells to officially diagnosis him as Neuroblastoma as well as other exploratory measures to help them plan Jake’s treatment.\u00a0We would head into surgery tomorrow and they would have all of the pathology results back next Thursday.\u00a0 How does this happen?\u00a0 Last week we\u00a0were living with a\u00a0“healthy” four year old boy.\u00a0 A week later, our world was spinning out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we went in for our CT scan.\u00a0 All went pretty well.\u00a0 They told us we would have to sedate Jake, we didn’t.\u00a0 He did great.\u00a0He did need an IV and that wasn’t a nice experience\u00a0but we were in and out in a couple of\u00a0hours.\u00a0\u00a0The nurse that was overseeing us was nice enough but not … <\/p>\n

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