Today is just one of those days where I can't focus, my mind is going 100 miles an hour. I feel helpless. This young man is my pride and joy. Five years ago we found a lump in your left armpit the size of a golf ball. It never bothered you and in fact, didn't even know it was there until I mentioned it to you. We ended up taking you in to have it looked at. The doctor scheduled you to have an MRI done and I got the results right away. The results showed that you had an Osteochondroma ( benign tumor). On the way out of the hospital I stopped a nurse and asked her what that was and she took me into an office and looked it up on the computer. When it came back that it was a tumor I felt that my whole world was going to fall apart.. Of course not all tumors are bad. The sound of TUMOR just sounds like death in itself. I just bawled. We went straight to grandma's work and the nurse Debbie called Salt Lake and got us an appointment to have it removed. I'll never forget that morning. I was a nervous wreck but, you handled it like a pro. I was so proud of you.. The surgery ended up being about 3 hours and you were knocked out GOOD from the anesthesia. You had a tube coming out of a small hole under your arm with a balloon deal on it for drainage.. You had an I.V. and your little arm was in a sling. I felt helpless. My baby laying there in the recovery room just after surgery.
So, five years later, here we are again. You ended up with phnemonia last year and in your x-rays the radiologist noticed a spot on your arm. I reminded the doctors of your surgery and we all just assumed it was scar tissue. Last week, while at school you were jumping hurdles in athletics and fell on that arm. You complained of your shoulder hurting for over a week so we decided to take you in. Dr. Ellis, looked at x-rays and didn't find anything wrong with your shoulder but, once again that spot subject came up. She told us she would have the radiologist compare last years x-ray to this one to see if that spot had any proof of growth and it came back positive. Today March 12, 2010 you went in for a CT scan and sure enough you have another growth. I shared the news with loved one and church family and you have sooo many people praying for you. I'm just in tears over how many people LOVE you. You are an amazing young man and I'm sooo proud to be your mother. I love you more than you will ever know..I know things are going to be ok because God is the great Healer and the Great Physician. You are in the best hands you could have ever dreamt of..
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