From normality to cancer in 20 days.

Hi Folks,

It's me again :) many people keep asking how all this started so I thought I would detail the appointments that we attended up to when we received the results of Nick's biopsy.

06/11/09
We saw our doctor at 8.30 and he was not happy with Nick's eye so he sent him away and said he would phone us as soon as possible with a time to visit the Ophthalmics department at Rotherham Hospital, we received a phone call at 9:15 saying we were booked in to see someone at 10:00 the same day.

By 12:30 Nick had been seen by 3 consultants and we left the hospital waiting for an appointment for an urgent MRI scan.

12/11/09
Nick arrived for his MRI scan - typically he was in there ages! and after about an hour he came out and told me that he had been through the scanner twice and now he needed to go for a CT scan as well which was also done the same day.

13/11/09
Sscan result day - and we were advised that there was a mass which is causing the eye problem and blindness that Nick is experiencing and they were pretty sure it was just a build up of mucus and puss but they could not be sure without a biopsy so we were referred to the Ear, Nose & Throat department under Mr Harkness for this to happen.

17/11/09
Was our first meeting with Mr Harkness who took a look at the scans with Nick then a young girl was called in with his operating diary and he turned to the following day and said cancel that that and that and move this one and put Mr Dent in there so we left knowing that Nick was going into hospital at 7:00 a.m the following day under general anesthetic for a sinus flush and biopsy.

18/11/09
Me and the boys dropped Nick off at the hospital bright and early, I called to pick him up and a large bag of tablets at about 6.30 pm. Oscar stayed up to see daddy come home but then he would not leave his side and we eventually managed to get Oscar to close his eyes on the settee at 8:45 pm. Nick knew when he left hospital that he may possibly need some radio therapy treatment depending on what the biopsy came back with.

24/11/09
We returned to Rotherham Hospital to see Mr Harkness and the new was delivered that it was no longer just a mass but a tumor which would require chemotherapy asap for at least 6 months. We left the hospital that day waiting for an appointment to see the Hematology Department.

26/11/09
We arrived at the Hematology department and after speaking with numerous people and Nick having more scans and bloods tests we came home pumped with information all about his type of cancer and what is to follow.

That is our journey to date and how we arrived where we are today.

Next week is a busy week with various hospital visits:
01/12/09 We will hopefully be visiting Jessops Children's Hospital to deposit the future Dent population.
02/12/09 Nick will be going into hospital for them to take a sample of his Bone Marrow.
03/12/09 Nick's Chemotherapy will start.