So remember that B word I mentioned earlier? Yeah, Biopsy. Typically not something I look forward to. I mean hell, last time I heard, "I think its an infection, and I took some biopsies which will tell us for sure," ended up not being an infection, but cancer. So yes I was a bit on the scared side when the GI doc at Duke told me he took some biopsies of his connection site during his surgery.
And...now we wait. Wait a week for what, our life to change? Too late it already did...remember?
EMAIL: DUKE HEALTH OK, so this is it. An email alert telling me some lab results are in. I mean they can't be bad or else they wouldn't have emailed me right? RIGHT!!! And so I logged in and checked...hand shaking of course.
"The biopsies from your EGD were benign. Good news."
REALLY??? REALLY??? NO WAY...SERIOUSLY??? SOMEONE PINCH ME PLEASE!!!
A burst of emotions flew over my body. Relief like I had never experienced it before would be the best way to put it. I cried so hard. I mean it was almost like waking up from a really bad dream and happy tears of...ITS OVER, it was all a dream. Though I know it wasn't, but now it didn't matter, it was over.
I ran upstairs to tell the boys. Forget Tony, the kids needed to know first. They looked at me like I had 10 heads of course because I never told them we never really knew for sure that the radiation did its job. But they were happy...and went back to playing XBOX. (See cancer will never stop the gaming in this house :P)
Then I came downstairs, crawled into bed with Tony and told him what the report said. I couldn't stop crying...I mean HARD crying. He told me he knew it would be OK...which is great, cause I sure as hell didn't.
So as we put the cancer behind us, and his dilation has been complete...its time to focus on the next part of recovery...eating and weaning of the tube feed...
