My Archives: April 2004
Friday, April 23, 2004
We are on cloud nine here in the DeVoe house. We got the prelim results from Chantaye's biopsy and so far so good! the lab is still running tests to be 110% positive that there is nothing wrong, but at this point everything is perfect with NO signs of cancer!!!! I have literally been walking around with a mighty goofy smile on my face and saying Thank you, God, everytime I look at my sweet baby. We should have the final results in another week or so. Please keep praying for us that nothing shows up in the follow-up tests. I asked Dr. O what we would do about the lumps that are inoperable, and he tells me there really is nothing to do since there's no cancer, so I am hoping and praying that those will go away. We kept her home again this week tho, after explaining things that had been going on at school with the bullies Dr. O didn't feel that we should send her back quite yet, and I so glad he said that! I was so worried and just uncomfortable with the whole idea that it made me feel alot better to have her here with me.
I am so sorry I didn't get to post before now, both of my computers have been a total pain lately, and since my last post I have barely been able to get online at all. The isp has had some sort of problem and I couldn't connect, and then when I would get connected I either got booted right back off again or I would sit here staring at the screen and it wouldn't move. I couldn't even download emails until Wed. or Thur., can't remember which now, my days are all blurred together lol The good news on the net front tho..Greg went in today and pitched a hissy when he paid the bill and he hadn't been gone from the office very long at all when they called and said that dsl will be coming out here next week and if we still wanted it to let them know and we would be the first customer for hook-up, IF? yes of course we still want it! lol so the girl has us listed as highest priority, and says we should see the hook-up guy on Friday. can ya tell we are excited? lol just think we can both get online at the same time now..hmm maybe this isn't the best idea, I'm sure one of us will torment the other constantly lol
I'm off to listen to sweet-pea snore, I have to get him up at 3am so he can go work the dayshift *sigh* (I hate dayshift!) I will do my best to get around and visit and catch-up with everyone soon.Posted by Aretha @ 09:41 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, April 15, 2004
I have never been a very patient person to tell the truth, I hate waiting more than anything I think, and that is all I can do now and it is driving me crazy! I actually feel like just running and screaming until I can't go anymore. I know that wouldn't help anything at all, but it might let some of the tension out, and at least I would be doing something other than worrying and crying. I've tried to vent with Greg but that just hasn't worked, he doesn't let his emotions show very often, and he thinks I'm just making myself more of a basket case. I tried to talk to my mom, but she ends up crying and telling me I shouldn't think the worst, and I end up having to comfort her. I think trying to prepare myself for the worst might be best that way if the news is bad I will be a little better able to deal with it, and on the other hand if the news is good then I will be more thankful for the miracle.
Chantaye is feeling alot better now, she didn't take anything for pain yesterday or today! She said it hurts some but not bad enough to need medicine, I am so thankful for that! I hadn't really expected her to do this well, this quickly so I know it has to be the prayers that are helping her.
I just looked over at her now, I thought she was still reading and she has fallen asleep here in front of the stove, I guess she must still be a little cold since we had snow Tuesday night, which amounted to about 3 inches! lol
I've got a couple of pics of her to post too, as soon as I get them off the digital and resized, I'll try to get that done over the weekend if not before.
I'm off to try to carry her to my bed now, she's still not ready to go back to sleeping in her room, except for her day-time naps.
Posted by Aretha @ 10:56 PM CST [Link]
Monday, April 12, 2004
We are home from the hospital. Chantaye was in surgery and recovery for about an hour this morning, luckily they managed to squeeze her in first, she should have stayed in recovery for another 30 minute or so but she was begging for mommy and they couldn't sneak me in so they just brought her on out to me. It was the hardest hour of my life! I sobbed the whole time she was gone, poor Greg didn't know what to do with me at all, but taking care of me kept him from breaking down too.
The surgery went ok, the incision is quite a bit bigger than I thought it would be, and bigger than Dr. O had told me to expect. She hadn't been in her room 10 minutes until she had to have pain meds. I am trying to keep her on plain tylenol or motrin as much as possible here at home, the prescription was for Tylenol 3 with codeine and after they gave her the codeine she could barely stand up, but I've got it here if she needs it. She is laying over here watching tv now, she wasn't real fond of me moving away from her to make a quick post but I told her I had to get on here to let everyone know we made it home.Andrea, thank you for the bear hon! I will get it added here soon! I tried to download it here on this computer but it is coming up as bitmap on this one, so I need to be on the laptop for that. Oh, btw...if you didn't get my email from last week let me know so I can resend it ok?
God Bless you all and thank you for all your continuing prayers and support! Please keep those prayer chains going ladies, we won't know the results of the biopsy for a week or longer.
Posted by Aretha @ 09:05 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, April 8, 2004
This will be a short post as I can barely see to type. I recieved the 2 prayer gifts you see today for my baby and there are no words to even begin to express what I am feeling.
I want to thank each and everyone of you for all your prayers, love, kindness and support! I will never be able to properly thank you or to say what I am feeling or how very much you all mean to me!
Chantaye has been reading your emails and is so very touched by each and every one! (tags included) I can't tell you how much all of this means to her! She told me, "mommy, I can't believe all these people don't know me, but they care about me". Thank you for giving her the extra love and support she needs so badly right now.
Please continue to pray for us ladies! I can't promise to post or reply to emails over the weekend, but I am trying hard to do it!! If I'm slow please don't be offended or think I don't appreciate you! I'm spending all my time with Chantaye right now and trying to keep her from being scared.
We have to be at the hospital at 6 am Monday morning, I'm not sure what time surgery will start.
I will do my best to get online and post Monday night as long as things go as planned and she comes home that day, if I don't post you will know we are having to spend the night at the hospital.
God Bless you all!!!!Posted by Aretha @ 09:32 PM CST [Link]
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
A very quick update on Chantaye..
We went and saw Dr. O, today and he has scheduled her for surgery Monday morning. He found 3 more lumps, he says basically the other 3 are inoperable, but the one I found is easy to remove.
I am even more worried now than I was before. I had hoped and prayed so much that he would tell me everything was fine, he told me not to worry, but I could see it in his face that I do need to worry especially after he found all the others.I beg you ladies, Please keep praying for my baby!
She is starting to understand that this could be more serious than we had told her, and is very scared right now.Posted by Aretha @ 07:22 PM CST [Link]
Friday, April 2, 2004
I kept Chantaye home from school today to let her rest because she has just been so tired lately. We got a call back from the surgeon and he has agreed to see her! I am so relieved that he will see her, instead of us having to take our chances with idiots, Dr. O is the best surgeon here and I trust and respect him a great deal. I called them this morning to schedule an appointment and they are squeezing her in Tuesday afternoon. I'm anxious to see what Dr. O has to say, but at the same time I'm terrified of what he will tell us.
Please!! keep us in your prayers ladies, we need all we can get right now and I feel that prayers are our only hope of having things turn out to be ok.
Once again, thank you all for your emails, tags and prayers! I am blessed to have so many friends and I will be forever indebted to each and every one of you.Posted by Aretha @ 11:11 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, April 1, 2004
We have been trying for 2 days now to get Chantaye in to see another dr, but everywhere we turn we are getting rejected for one reason or another. We called the oncologist that was suggested and he won't see her unless she is actually diagnosed with cancer, they said to take her to an ear, nose & throat guy, why is beyond me! so we call the oncologist I used to see, unsure if he sees children or not, well he is gone on some sort of leave, his office is closed and they will notify patients when he returns *sigh*, we call another oncologist here and she doesn't see children at all! grrr So we call this ear guy, the first appointment they have is like the 7th, we go ahead and accept the appointment just in case we can't get in anywhere else. I get online at the insurance site, there are no openings with an ear guy in the next county until like May, no oncologists at all down there, but I did find another one up here we didn't know about, so we call this guy, they called back before we could even fax her blood results and told us to get her to a surgeon, and to forget the ear guy. We then called the dr that has done 2 or 3 surgeries on me and other members of my family, they said they don't know if he will see her since she's only 9, but they will call us back, now this was yesterday at like 12 or 1, I didn't expect to hear from them until this morning, because they don't discuss new patients with him until like 5, but here it is after 2 today and still no return call! Greg will call them again tomorrow to force the issue, we are actually tempted to make the appointment for me and just go on and take her! I mean wtf is wrong with all these people not wanting to treat children? I mean I could understand if it was a little child, but great day in the morning she's 9! The lump has not gone down at all and Chantaye has started asking me if it's ever going to go down or leave, what can I tell her when I can't get any sort of answer from a dr.?
One tid-bit of good news..on the school bully thing...the lil snot got sent to the principal and he recieved a paddling, and has been informed if he doesn't back off and leave the girls alone he will get one each time he bothers them in the future! his little friends then apparently tried to start problems with the other little girl that stands up for herself, and when she didn't back down and then told the teacher they went after 'Taye, well she went straight to the teacher this time too (finally!) and now the friends are on thin ice with the principal too, so apparently it's gonna take some toughness from Mr. W to convince these boys that they need to back off. I asked if she had problems with anyone on Wednesday and she said no, that everyone tended their own business and left her alone, so hopefully we have one problem finally taken care of.
Thank you all for the sweet emails! I apologize for falling behind again, I finally slept yesterday, last night and then again today. If I manage to stay awake tonight after I get the kids all situated and taken care of I will get back in emails then, I haven't forgotten anyone, I promise! it's just hard to keep my mind on the task at hand right now.
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