The change

Well no one has heard from me in a long time. So I thought I could actually give people updates through me. Instead of you hearing everything from someone who heard something who heard something who talked to me, :-D 

Well where to begin? I guess the beginning? So since David and I have been dating he has had back problems. He finally went to a real doctor back in November. In December the doctors called to tell us that he was anemic. So he started to take iron. In January when they had him come back for a checkup they checked his blood again. the next day they called us and told us to come to the office immediately, and from there we would go to the hospital. They told us he probably had an ulcer, which would be why he was anemic. Unfortunately, that was not so. They found a mass in his duodenum (or small intestine right below the stomach). Later that week we found out it was adenocarcinoma. Which of course David and I had no idea what that was. Soo I left for work thinking it was not anything serious. Fortunately, I called my mom she did some quick research and called me back saying honey you know that's cancer right? Well I had no idea, so i ran a red light. oops! Then I went home early from work and went back to David. Of course after all that they still needed to do more tests. We stayed in the hospital for about a week, and found out the treatment plan for this type of cancer. Chemo, Chemo, Chemo, and then surgery. 

So I will skip ahead to surgery. We finished chemo and got a CT scan about two weeks after they did the last treatment. Then about a week after that we met with the surgeon and scheduled the surgery for a week later. So we had about 4 weeks in between the surgery and the last chemo. About a week before surgery David started to feel terrible. He was not hungry and he was in a lot of pain. Soo we took him to memorial hospital on the Friday before his surgery (his surgery was scheduled for Thursday). We told the doctors that we thought he had a bowel block. So they gave him another CT scan. And told us it looked like the tumor has swollen up due blood and dead tumor cells. So we drove down to Emory in Atlanta on Tuesday so we could be admitted there. And we have been here (Emory) ever since. Because down at Emory they did an MRI and found that the tumor had actually grown. And because it was again the size it was before chemo they could not do surgery. So now we are waiting for radiation to start on wed. We only have one more day and we are very anxious to start. 

Well lets see what else can I fill the world in on. I guess how I feel? I hear people are always asking how we are. Not just the situation, but how we are dealing with it. The hardest thing is when the doctors tell you something new. Some bad news. That is the hardest to deal with. Then once we accept that we can move on, accept it, and figure out how to kick it in the butt! The hardest thing for me is to see my husband in so much pain. He never complains and stays positive. but there is nothing I can do to make it all better. 

But we have received many priesthood blessings, and we know the heavenly father loves us and will never give us more than we can handle. We can feel all the prayers of our family and friends and we know that David is going to get better. He will be healed. We just will be getting very good at patience. 

Well hopefully this fills you all in. I am sure its not a personal as some of you would like, but it is what it is. and I might try and update this and time goes on. Especially since I have so much time as I sit around and wait.