Sit....Wait....Pray

Typically on this blog I try not to get too personal in regards to myself and family but when life doses you a certain way, you can't hide behind it.

With that said, for those of you that know me and the one that don't, I am married. My husband and I have been together for 15 years. We have five amazing awesome kiddos. A little less than five years ago, my husband had a mole removed from his back and it was determined as to be Fast Spreading Malignant Melanoma. I still remember the day when he went to get his stitches taken out at his doctors and that is when the doctor told him what it was and what was going to happen next. My husband, Joe, was going deer hunting after that appointment. He gave me a call before he got in the woods and told me what the doctor said. My heart sank into my stomach. As a girl working in the medical industry I knew exactly what type of cancer that was and how serious. It isn't just the process of removing a mole and then having no cancer. This skin cancer is fast spreading if not caught in time; hence the name for it. That night though my husband got a 13 point Buck. Biggest deer he has ever gotten. A horrible day but a good day.
Surgery happened not to far after receiving the diagnosis. They did a PET scan before he went back to surgery so they could see where it did spread to. So: a huge section of his back was removed from where the mole was before and on top of that they removed lymph nodes under both his arms to make sure that they got all the live cancer cells. Surgery was a success!!! We caught it in time and he was cancer free.
Here are some photos of his back. He had to get a skin graph done because of how deep they had to go.

Two days after surgery.

One year after surgery. 

They removed skin from his thigh to make the back graph. So he was pretty sore after surgery but we were thankful to hear even after a year that he was still cancer free.

Well over time he has had some symptoms that would come and go and then come back even stronger so finally he said it was time to go back to the doctor for a full workup because he has been feeling like crap. The doctor agreed to do a full workup and testing. So this past Thursday at our visit with his primary care physician, the doctor ordered blood-work plus a chest x-ray, and MRI and a CT scan. The scans and tests were done on Friday at a hospital. Yesterday morning the office called first thing in the morning to share the news of all the tests. It wasn't good news to say the least. 

They found some vitamin deficiencies in his blood-work so adding Vitamin D into a daily regiment along with getting B12 shots for now every month. The CT scan showed a small mass of gray matter in his brain near his ocular lobes. This explains the vertigo and headaches he has been having. The MRI showed a mass behind his abdomen. We have to wait until Tuesday, September 3rd, to have the PET scan done to see how active these cells are in his abdomen and determine what stage of cancer this is. We have to wait until October to see a neurologist which I think is dumb. They may change their tune on that date once these PET scans come back. I'm not going to lie.....I'm completely terrified. Since I work in the medical field and know what I know about this form of cancer is not helping anything. His type of cancer if it metabolizes it will 75% of the time be found in the brain and also places itself apart of the digestive system. Exactly the two spots where they found masses. Cancer sucks. Period. This cancer has not stage two or three. Just Stage 1 and stage 4. Its either you caught it in time or you don't. This is my biggest fear that it might be too late. I pray every second that we did catch it in time. All we can do now is sit and wait and pray. Lots of prayer. I'm sharing this with you all because I need your prayers too. Please pray for my husband and that this is just like before with having surgery and be cancer free again. I beg of you. Thank you.......................

If you want to read more about Malignant Melanoma and want to know some signs and symptoms, here is a good link to start with: http://ezinearticles.com/?Malignant-Melanoma---Are-Your-Symptoms-a-Sign-That-it-Has-Spread?&id=3150720

My husband and I.

All of our kiddos! :) 

This is what I keep telling myself so I don't make things worse then what they are. It is not really working but I'm trying!!! 

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