Wednesday and a Restless Night

I had a restless night. I guess I was too tired when I went to bed. Anyhow, I got up about 4:00AM. No sense just tossing and turning any longer.

Today I will fix spaghetti for lunch with a veggie and Bob's salad and garlic bread.  I will have fruit for dessert with the cookies.

I intend to attend the ministerial alliance meeting tomorrow for their lunch and also rejoin. Now that I'm no longer working I want to get back to these alliance meetings. I think it's important to participate with other churches. We need to have a presence there. I was their secretary/treasurer for eight years. Now I will just be able to sit and listen and participate.

Later today around 2:00 I will go back up to see Bobby and Karan at the hospital. Even later today the two specialists from Tulsa will be coming to do the scanning of his chest area and stomach to try to find the primary location of the cancer.

I got all the dishcloths and dish towels from yesterday's dinner washed and dried and folded last night. I may run them back out to church later this morning.

It's 5:00 AM now and I will go feed Missy and myself. I will be back to this later.....

I took some photos yesterday at the hospital.  I'll share them here.

This is Bobby.

The woman on the left is my daughter, Leslie. The one in the center is Bobby's daughter, Becky, and the one on the right is Bobby's wife, Karan.

I thought you might be interested since I talk about them from time to time.

This old babe is me. As you can see, I've aged a lot since Doug took that photo in 2007.

Karan just called.

She talked to Dr. Gillis this morning and he said those tests he ordered did not show any primary tumor. And by the way, he also told Karan that  a lesion IS a tumor. Karan asked him about that. There is no obvious reason this has happened so far. He saw no primary tumor in the chest or the stomach in the tests they did Monday so he has added a neurosurgeon to the group coming from Tulsa late this afternoon.  

The mystery deepens. Bobby is more lucid this morning. They have taken him for more tests right now and Karan is going home to shower and change her clothes while he is gone.

I suspected a stroke or a TIA but that would have been fairly common and easy to diagnose, I would think.  I found this on WedMD.

Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) Directory

A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a temporary blockage of blood flow in the brain that causes brief stroke symptoms. A transient ischemic attack is often called a mini-stroke. It is considered a warning sign that a more serious stoke will happen in the future. Transient ischemic attack symptoms do not last long. They may include weakness on one side of the body, dizziness, blurred vision, confusion, and speech problems. A TIA is a medical emergency.

More later….

Karan called me after she talked to Dr. Ogundapeh, the oncologist.  They were going to do another MRI but just as Bobby got down there in the machine, it went down. They have someone working on it now. Because of the lack of other symptoms, like headache, there is a chance that the two lesions  are connected…kind of like a barbell. Dr. O thinks they need to do a biopsy.  He told Bobby and Karan that just because he is an oncologist doesn’t mean Bobby has cancer. If that would turn out to be the case, it could be an infection.  Bobby asked about the procedure of the biopsy and Dr. O. told him he would need to talk to the neurosurgeon because that is out of his area of expertise.   The neurosurgeon has not come yet.  Neither has the radiologist. They should be there this evening. Bobby is staying in the hospital one more day just in case they need more tests.

I went up to see them after I left the senior center at 3:00 and took a card everyone there had signed.  Soon after that Dean, his brother, and his wife also came.  I left at 4:00. He had enough company.

We had a good lunch and had some of the Cherry Pie Cake for dessert. I had forgotten I still had that. 

I went to the senior center to play Bunco from 1:00 till 3:00.