November 21, 2017
I'm not much of a writer and my mind has been all over the map in the past 24 hours. Yesterday was the hardest day of our lives, to date. One cannot be prepared to sit in a doctors office and be told their child has Cancer. Our child? Our sweet spunky 15 month old has cancer? The pit in my stomach is real? Can you start over? I'm suffocating, we're suffocating. Oh please, God. But there's medicine, and chemotherapy, and really intelligent well practiced physicians. And there was a lot more said and only a little retained. Yesterday was a really really hard and long day.
I'm not much of a writer and my mind has been all over the map in the past 24 hours. Yesterday was the hardest day of our lives, to date. One cannot be prepared to sit in a doctors office and be told their child has Cancer. Our child? Our sweet spunky 15 month old has cancer? The pit in my stomach is real? Can you start over? I'm suffocating, we're suffocating. Oh please, God. But there's medicine, and chemotherapy, and really intelligent well practiced physicians. And there was a lot more said and only a little retained. Yesterday was a really really hard and long day.
Sloane was diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastomas, also known as cancerous tumors in both eyes. She will be having an MRI under anesthesia on Friday morning to rule out a tumor in her brain. She will then have surgery to get a port placed in her chest for 6-8 months of systemic chemotherapy. Surgery will follow the chemo and her eyes will be followed closely. We became a part of the Riley Family yesterday and are ever grateful to Dr. Plager for seeing us so quickly and the oncologist, Dr. Shih, who then worked us in to get this process of treatment started.
Austin and I feel loved, we feel very sad and disoriented but we do feel so loved. I truly believe that certain people have been placed very carefully into our lives to get us through this period of life. I believe in our community, I am in awe of the prayers. Austin and I both feel wrapped in prayer and cannot thank everyone enough for that. We know this road is long and we know there will be things we need that we won't know how to ask for. I know there are many questions people will have and we'll try to answer them to the best of our capability.
For now we have a short list of specific prayers. Please pray for Sloane's MRI, that the cancer has not spread to her pineal gland. Please pray for Austin and I, that we cling to each other's strength. Please pray for Audrey, her big sister role just took a drastic change. And please pray for the medical team taking care of our Sloane, that God guides their hands and minds to keep our Sloaney girl safe.
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