We are officially 30 weeks....and life for the last 7-9 weeks has literally been a roller coaster...that may be an understatement! LOL
On March 24th, Nick went in for a CT Scan of his sinuses and they caught the top of 4 in mass on his left lung. So they sent us to see a Pulmonologist. So after weeks of Bloodwork, CT Scans, X-rays, a the final thing was a PET scan, this shows if cells are active or not. If they are active that means 2 things. 1. The dreaded word... CANCER or 2. A Fungal infection.
He went Monday April 7th, I couldn't go with him, this test is so powerful that it stays in him for 6-8 hours and with me being pregnant they didn't want me near him until at least 6 hours after. :-(
So he finished his test.. and I get phone call they are rushing his dad to the ER. So I called Nick and told him don't leave the hospital they are headed that way with your dad. So here the family is in the ER with his dad... while waiting for the PET scan results which take 24-48 hours. Tuesday they moved his dad to a room and were watching him closely. Without going into details, his dad was in a lot of pain and other stuff.. TMI on that stuff. But the Dr.'s were able to get it all figured out and sent him home Thursday after being there since Monday, and he's been doing great ever since.
5:45pm Tuesday, April 8th, we got the dreaded phone call, the cells were active.
It seemed as though life just fell apart right then and there.
So next step to see a Thoracic Surgeon and see where do we go from here. Of course we had to wait for an appt. I don't know how people do this,, the waiting for appt's is numbing!
We met with the surgeon and he was amazing, and he decided that we were going to Biopsy, but that it could be very dangerous because of where it was at. There were only two ways to get to this little sucker and one was the least invasive and the other well let's just say we are glad we didn't have to.
So April 21st, Nick had his biopsy done... the surgeon came out about an hour later and had a huge smile on his face... he told me It's not confirmed, but we are pretty confident it's Infection! WOOO--HOOO!!! 3 days later... we found out it's a Necrotizing Granuloma. Basically an old infection / dying infection at that. They still to this day can not get the little sucker to grow to get a more detailed type of infection. But have chosen to put Nick on Meds for 4-6 weeks and check on it from there. By the way if you are ever in need of a great Pulmonary office and live in or close to Kansas City, I urge you to go see Midwest Pulmonologists at St. Luke's on the Plaza, amazing Dr.'s and staff!
That same week I was laid off from my job, we were anticipating it happening (so much that we had anticipated it way before I got pregnant, but I loved my job so much I didn't want to leave so we just chucked a bunch of money in savings in preparation for it) because of things that had been happening in the office we just had a gut feeling.. we just were hoping I could work until the baby was born, then leave and then start looking for another job while on Maternity leave, but We trust God has a plan. My unemployment while it's not what I was making, we are able to survive until the baby is 8 weeks or older depending upon when the baby comes. :-) God has gotten us through much worse and I know he'll get us through this. I almost feel like he was saying you need to rest and prepare for this little one who is going to give you a run for your money from the get go :-)
Moving on... So April 30th I woke up to get ready for the day, normal routine, ate breakfast, watched the news, got in the shower, and I had just finished blow drying my hair. All of the sudden I broke out into a HUGE sweat, so bad that it was literally like I had never showered. On top of that sharp shooting pain every 2-5 minutes in my chest, at first the Dr. told Nick to give me some mylanta or something along those lines, but then he heard me crying in the background and said nevermind, meet me at the Hospital. After an entire day at the hospital, the baby is good, and Momma had a severe Acid Reflux attack... he put me on meds and I've been doing great ever since.
So you are probably thinking Good lord God does have a sense of Humor.... but I haven't even gotten to the best part yet!
On May 16-2014 We opted to have a 3D Sonogram of our little princess!!
HA-- In less than 5 minutes into the session we were asked who told us it was a girl.... We said our Dr. of course. She kept scanning and finally on her huge BIG screen TV she zoomed in and said...
Do you see that?? She said That is NOT a girl! LOL WOW so here we've been planning for this sweet little girl for over 10 weeks, and now we have a little Prince on the way... She looked at us and said you guys are taking this pretty good.. usually people lose it. I looked at her and said.. well you just told us he has 10 Fingers, 10 Toes a head full of hair and looked very healthy. After 7 years of Infertility, at that point it didn't matter. It wasn't until we got home and saw "her" decorated room it hit me... Don't get me wrong I'm happy we have a healthy baby on the way.. boy or girl... but you get so used to one thing.. it was almost like losing another child. So after ALOT of exchanging and changing things around... we are getting closer to being prepared for this little guy... he still doesn't have a name yet, but that's ok.
Thank you all to our family, friends for all your support and prayers through all of this.
Remember if you or anyone you know of is going through infertility, I"m always here and obviously an open book and also a part of Kansas City Infertility Awareness, and there are 8 of us that have all different journeys and would love to help in any way we can. Check out our website for more details. www.kcinfertility.org
Love, Nick, Angie and Baby S--- Always keeping life exciting :-)
~Trust in the Lord with all your heart & lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him & He will make your paths straight~ Proverbs 3:5-6
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