Jacee Chalise

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Not good news, not sure what kind of news!

Yesterday Caitlin had an MRI and an audiogram at Primary Children's, which was interesting (ha ha ha) Unfortunately many things went wrong, first I had the time wrong so we had to wait for a whole hour in the waiting room, and they had messed up the scheduling. Caitlin was suppose to be under sedation for both the MRI and the audiogram but they can only give her the medicine once. Anyway since the MRI took so long, and then it took a little while for the audiologist to come, that Caitlin was awake before they were halfway done. From what they did get, they say that her hearing is still good, meaning that the chemotherapy hasn't affected her hearing. After that we went to see Dr. Lemons to talk about the results from the MRI. Where the tumor was before shows no new or re-growth, so that was good news. But they did find plaque-like lesions on her spine at the base of her neck, which right now we are unsure of what that really is. So on Friday we are heading back down to Primary's to get a lumbar puncture done to see if that gives us a clue to what the growth is. Jake and I were kind of heart broken, we had hoped that we were at the end of this awful journey and that we were just going to have to finish up the maintenance chemo. Now we might just have to go back and do some of it all over again. Before yesterday I felt like a broken vase pieced back together with just one more piece to put back in to complete it. Now I feel like that piece instead of fitting in perfectly caused the whole thing to break apart again. I am okay, I am just feeling a little defeated right now.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry... I hope everything turns out fine, and it's really the piece of your puzzle that fits!! She's so cute, and it's so sad and hard to see such a young innocent little girl, and such young parents to go through this... You're all very strong.. and although it SUCKS... but God doesn't give us trials we can't handle.. and you all can obviously handle a lot to have this trial..

kaTie said...

Erin,
Life's journey is truly amazing. We are never sure what we will be handed in our lives. We may be saddened, we may shed tears, we may cry with joy. But, those roads we travel define who and what we are. It is so hard not to "see" the whole picture. God has a plan... keep your faith!

Unknown said...

Everything is going to be fine. I have no doubt. We need to trust in our Heavenly Father. Our faith and our prayers and the prayers of others will get us all through this. Hang in there Erin! You have done such a great job through all of this and I have been so impressed with your strength. It will all be okay! We love you!

chelsea said...

Wow I'm so sorry! You guys will be in our prayers. Dig deep and remember that we don't have to bear the trials in this life alone, Christ already has felt EVERYTHING you are going through lean on him and let him comfort you. Also you have great friends and family that are here for you if we can do ANYTHING please let us know!

Todd and Carol said...

Keep you chin up! Hopefully everything is clear with the lumbar puncture. You continue to be in my prayers. Carol