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I've had an emotional and medical filled week for sure. We started off with a thyroid fine needle biopsy- basically you get these needles put into your thyroid through the outside of your neck- OUCH! Then we had Blake's 1st dental appt.- he LOVED it! The next day we woke up at 4:45 a.m. and headed over to Children's Hospital in Seattle for his tubes/adenoids procedure on Wednesday.
Oh the drama of getting up early... not being able to eat... and anesthesia on a child! Poor guy couldn't eat anything from midnight until after his procedure- he was not thrilled to see other people eating on the ferry and when it finally came time for him to put a gown on for his procedure- we thought he was going to lose it (low blood sugar is not a good thing for that boy). His procedure went well, but then coming out of the anesthesia was RETCHED! He was either going to fight or flight and in his case he fought all the way! Scratching (I forgot to de-claw the monster before his appt- Oops... I paid for it), clawing, biting, power thrusting his body forward and back, struggling, wrestling, continual attempts to pull out his IV- finally they sedated him after 30 minutes of agony and he went directly into this almost comatose state of sleep from 10:30 a.m. until after 3:00 p.m. He started to come to, puked a few times, was struggling again, and finally he was ready to leave! The only thing was he needed to be hydrated and he refused to eat EVERYTHING they had to offer. He was set on a "pink" popsicle and all they had were red, purple and orange. Luckily the cafeteria had pink! Thank God! We finally got out of there about 5:30 and bee-lined for the ferry. We made the 6:20! But, while we were waiting for the ferry line up I got a phone call regarding my biopsy.
I was told I had papillary carcinoma!!! I LOST IT! I had very little sleep, had cried a lot during Blake's recovery, was purely exhausted and then this! You've got to be kidding me. Any other day I had received that info and I would have been ok with it... but today I was done!
After getting home and getting under control with things, I did some research and found out that more than likely they would need to do a partial or complete thyroidectomy to determine the stage or if it had spread to lymph nodes. I saw a surgeon on Friday- and he concurred with all of this. Now I have a 2nd opinion scheduled next week and we'll go from there. I'm not thrilled about the concept of going under, having a surgery, or having a scar on my neck forever and least thrilled about having to go on medication for life more than likely. But life goes on.... so I'm just trying to focus on life right now then on the medical crap!
Friends and family have been wonderful!! We are blessed to have so many wonderful friends, and supportive family here with us.
Anyhow, there goes the update! And look- Blake is happy again!
