Everyone here is a bit of an update how Friday went and last night as well-

Friday I was up at 5:30am having some trouble sleeping that comes with nerves of a big day. It was probably good that I was up because I had to be at the hospital by 7:45am for an Outpatient Surgery consultation...that went pretty fast and I was done by around 8:00am. I was scheduled to go in for a CAT SCAN at 8:30am...but due to the hospital only having one Xray technician for the Cat Scan Machine...I didn't get in until 10:15am.

I had to drink tons of this Xray juice (not Barium) that was mixed with Crystal Light...It didn't help much on the taste! Once inside the Cat Scan area I was laid on a huge table that raised up and they put me through head first because of having to have neck, chest, abdomen, and pelvis checked. After about 30 minutes or so in the machine I was taken out and put back into a wheel chair and taken back to my waiting bed.

Within 5 to 10 minutes of being back in the bed...they wheeled me out to the Operating Room. Once inside they had to shave off the upper part of my right chest area from the groove in the armpit over to about midbody and then up. They did a local anesthetic so I was awake for the entire operation. A nodule slightly larger than the size of one of those resturant sized butter spread tubs was removed from the right infraclavicular area. Once out I accepted the option to look at it and it looked like basically a tiny brain. They also cut it open and showed me the inside...pretty cool.

From there they took it and immediantly got on the road to neighboring Manhattan for a preliminary biopsy from the Cancer Specialist staff at the Manhattan Medical Center. It is now on it's was to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where the Cancer Center there is going to give my lymphoma an exact type, right now my surgeon is leaning toward Hodgekins disease (If any of this sounds like a foreign language...I think it is)

I received a call from my surgeon Friday around 2:30 pm and I'm now scheduled to meet with the Oncologist at Manhattan on Monday, and I may start my Chemo/Radiation/whatever treatment next week as well, as we will explore options and tackle them fast.

Friday Night/Saturday Morning-

4:30 am-woke up with choking sensation was uncontrolably shaking...teeth were chattering and tears wouldn't stop flowing...I was trying to curl up deeper and deeper in my blankets and it was no use. Mom heard me and was at my bedside pretty quick...I felt so shameful about the situation and bad about waking her and dad who soon followed in to the bedroom... Dad nearly went to tears when he tried to give me some Pain Reliever medicine and I told him that I didn't think I could swallow them...instead we managed to find some chewable kids tylenol and took that...no matter how hard I tried to fall back asleep I couldn't so I was up the rest of the morning. After a good meal at the local cafe in town....I was finally tired and able to sleep from 8:30ish to around 11:30am, able to get some of that sleep that I lacked in the night.

That for the most part is the update, I'll keep everyone informed of Moday's meeting...Sunday ought to be hectic at church with people finding out as well.

I'll keep you all along for the ride.....