Now I am not really a religious person, I am spiritual, but I have to say last year I spent a great many days and nights praying, we had great support from friends,family, and the little village where we live, we got through the ordeal and were left emotionally raw but unified as a family.
Flip the page to 2014, and another bombshell hits our family causing mass emotional casualties and plunging our quiet lives into utter chaos.
In December my Wife developed a persistent cough, we passed it off as bronchitis as both Hammy and I just came through a bout of it, so we thought nothing much about it, my wifes cough did not go away at all through January, finally February rolls around and I convince her to go to the doctor,the doctor thinks it is a lung infection and gives her some antibiotics and a chest x ray, the x ray shows 2 small black spots on her left lung, the x ray doesnt clearly show the right lung so the doctor says go home take the antibiotics and he will set up a ct scan appointment because he has some concerns about those 2 spots.
Feb. 10th I take my wife in for her ct scan, 10 minutes later the technician comes out with a very worried look and says you NEED to take her to emergency at the general hospital, I called they are waiting for you.
I panic and speed her over to the general, they were waiting, they put her in a room and hook up a ton of machines to her, start taking blood and asking a million questions, finally after a few hours specialists start coming in and talking to us, first they inform us that she has a bad pulmonary embolism (blood clot) in her lung and it could kill her if it broke free and travelled to her heart. they gave her a shot of fragmin in her belly (blood thinner)then they proceed to tell us about the 2 small spots on her left lung, then about the golf ball sized tumor on her right lung, they are pretty sure it is Cancer.
My wife is medicated and not catching all of what is being said, My world collapsed around me as I spoke with the doctors, Lung Cancer! she doesnt smoke, never has, doesnt drink, never has, has never taken any illegal drugs or other substances, never worked in an environment that deals with chemicals or asbestos ( she was a day care teacher for 17 years before becoming a cook at the local pub this past year)
The problem is my wife is asymptomatic , other than a cough she is perfectly healthy, no rapid weight loss, no shortness of breath, no weakness, no getting tired etc etc etc , she is put on fragmin for the embolism and sent home because it is almost the weekend and the labs use that time to catch up not take new clients so we are told to be back at the hospital the following wednesday Feb 26 at 4 pm.
Feb 26 they admit her back into the hospital and keep her, I stayed with her and had a friend look after Hammy at home, the next day they do a biopsy on the tumor to be absolutely sure it is Cancer and which type it is and form a plan on removing it, either by Chemo or surgery.
My wife came through the biopsy well enough, her lung did not collapse they kept x raying her every hour to be sure and kept her for another night, she was a bit miffed that she couldnt go home that night, but I had to head home and take care of some business, I went back to the hospital this last Friday to see about bring her home, they were still x raying her every hour and finally around 2 pm said she could come home, the doctors made sure I knew how to inject her with fragmin and made sure she had a 1 month supply, and told us to come back next friday for the biopsy results.
So that is where we are at right now, home waiting for the results.
My wife is not simply my wife, she is also my best friend and my soul mate as well as a mother to a 12 year old boy who looks just like her.
I am truly scared, not much in life scares me, but the thought that I could lose my wife terrifies me beyond belief.
We have been together for 17 wonderful years now and I am praying for at the very least another 17, I truly do not know what I would do without her, I worry about our son and how he would react, he is in emotional hell right now, we both are, him more so since after his surgery he has become more sensitive and emotionally unbalanced, he is in therapy for this and for what is going on with his mother.
I really dont know what else to say or how to end this post, so I will leave it here and update everyone as things happen and develop .
Butch
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