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Hurry up and wait!

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8/11/22- Additional CT scans were performed on his lower body because they say that brain cancers/tumors don’t usually start in the brain. Brain cancers typically start somewhere else and spread to the brain. Nothing else was found though. Friday night they performed an MRI. It was expected the MRI would offer more specific information on the characterization of the mass, but it did not.  After the MRI, they performed an EEG, but they never really told us why. There we sat in the ICU until Sunday, waiting for a neurosurgeon to come tell us something about the results, but they did not.  With very little communication from the neurosurgeons, all we knew at that point was that they were planning a surgery later in the week.
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Rocky Road

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8/10/23 - Rocky Road’s not just an ice cream filled with marshmallows and walnuts. It’s the beginning of this story; my sons journey and battle with an apparent brain tumor. About a week ago, he began vomiting. Anything he put down came back up. A trip to the urgent care resulted in some anti-viral drugs. The next day, he complained of severe headaches, and the vomiting hadn’t really let up. A trip to the ER netted him a rehydration, some pain meds,  and more anti-virals. Another trip to his doctor and more of the same. Finally, when the vomiting returned and the headaches came back with avengence, he and his mother returned to the very busy ER. They arrived around 4 pm on Thursdsay, were admitted around midnight, and after some cajoling, a CT scan was performed. By 2:30 am we learned a  high density contrast was observed, approximately 2.7x4.0x3.0 cm. When I arrived at 3 AM, I found them both slumped in chairs awaiting an actual bed.  It was a rough start.
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My Baby Boy

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8/10/23 - My baby boy is a sweetheart. Oh, he has his moods, but he is a good boy and I couldn’t be prouder to have him as a son. If I may paraphrase the late Tom Petty, “He 's a good boy, loves his mama / Loves Jesus and America too”. He’s always been that way. Just a shy, sweet kid that follows the rules and isn’t afraid to show affection towards his parents. My baby boy is 20 years old and just learned he likely has a brain tumor. 
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