Good News!

Thank you... Thank you... Thank you.... for all the prayers. We received a call from the doctor today and he THINKS that it appears it's not in his lymph nodes. He told us CT's aren't 100% but doesn't see anything around the area that would suggest that.

He is leaning toward it being a cyst which like I had mentioned, has to be removed due to the placement. 80% of the time these are removed they are benign so we have GREAT percentages! He said we could get a biopsy but if it were him he wouldn't put a little guy through that. He said that it was going to be removed regardless so we could find out at that time if it were malignant or benign.

I feel so much better about it today. After going through all the emotions and worst case scenario thoughts and crying the majority of the day I was in bed and Eric said to me, "Jess... you've already decided it's cancer... and if it is, which I have a good feeling about, do you not have Faith in your Father in Heaven?"

So then we started talking and I put all the bad thoughts out of my head (a little) and it was better. I'm not going to lie and say I slept well or much but at least I wasn't crying! When the phone call came in and I spoke with the doc I felt so much better. So even if we aren't totally out of the woods... I know that all the prayers and kind words have totally given me a little bit of peace.

Another positive note is that the facial nerve runs through the prada gland. They were thinking that the placement of the cyst was in the gland but it looks like it may be more on top so he said that he would first try a small incision and see if it can be removed the more common way which means no big cut down the face! GOOD POSITIVE STUFF!!! He wasn't sure it would work but said he would definitely try that first! So today I feel like doing little cheers!

I don't have much time but definitely knew there were concerns and appreciate all of you amazing people and your prayers!