"Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride."

-Gordon B. Hinckley



Thursday, June 14, 2012

Holding the Course

All the second opinions are in, plus two more from the team at Johns Hopkins and Dr. Norbert Liebsch, a world-reknown radiologist at Mass General. All of them say the same thing: Wait and see. After talking to Dr. Liebsch today, I continue to feel a lot more comfortable with the idea of waiting. He has been beyond nice and super helpful, despite the fact that K has something that doesn't fall into his area of interest (Chordomas) and that he's an extremely busy man. This says a lot about how much he cares about curing kids ... from whatever it turns out to be that ails them. We feel blessed to have a great team here at Denver Children's, but it's also nice to have other eyes focused on K's case, as well.

The next MRI scan is scheduled for mid-August, so unless K's symptoms worsen and we have to scan earlier, we won't know anything until then. It's nice to see her playing and being a normal kid, but it's hard to hear her complaining that her head hurts a lot. Her bouts with headache and sometimes dizziness mostly occur in the middle of the night, first thing in the morning or in the afternoon-evening. At least during the bulk of day, she can have a lot of fun without being in pain.

Daily miracles and blessings ... we thank Heavenly Father for them every day!

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