What a week...

One week ago today, life was good. Just had a wonderful Christmas with Heather, Jeff, Cole and Abby. But Dan was having some pain in his groin, thought maybe he had a hernia. He made an appointment to see his PCM Friday morning at 8:00. By noon he still wasn't back and then around 1pm he called me with horrible news. He has testicular cancer, he was to have surgery the following Monday 12/31 and he was scared by how fast the doctors were rushing him around to tests. Just like that, my world felt like it flipped upside down. Thankfully Kathy, Dan's mom, was able to come up for a couple days and help out with both of us and around the house.

So now we are one week out from this news. We are both mentally and physically exhausted. I don't know if it was related to the news or just bad timing but I have the worst cold of my life right now. Since Saturday I have been a constant fountain of mucus with horrible sinus headaches.

Today Dan and I both had medical appointments. He had a follow up CT-Scan just to see if there are any other areas that the cancer might have spread to. The CT results and the pathology reports from Monday's surgery will be reviewed sometime midweek with Dr. Lewis. Its then we will find out if he needs further treatment (surgery, radiation, chemo or perhaps no additional treatment).

My appointment was with the Fertility doctor to have another ultrasound. The cyst on my right ovary is slighty bigger again. Doc said it would continue to grow and it needs to be removed. Wants me to see a Dr. Grohl on base. He will be my new fertility doctor since my current doctor is going into teaching. He said let Dr. Grohl do the surgery because if I let a GYN doc do it they would just remove my ovary and we dont want that. So I have an appointment on base for Monday so they can give me the referral to Dr. Grohl (they wouldnt just refer me on the phone...) Hopefully we can get this surgery done quick so I can get back to training for the half marathon Heather and I are running in April.

The only other update is about our adoption process. Right now we are a few weeks away from the meeting in Columbus that we have to attend. I informed the agency about Dan's cancer. There are lots of medical conditions that they wont place an child into but they said as long as his doctor can write a letter saying he is cancer free and in good medical condition they have no problem going forward with the adoption process. Hopefully those conditions will be met soon! Until then we just wait to be able to start the homestudy, and if our name comes up sooner than Dan is medically cleared they will just let the next in line jump ahead of us until we are ready.