Visit to Hawaii, Volume 8, Chapter 3

On Tuesday evening, after dinner, Tommy, Daddy, Barbara, and I were enjoying each other's company at 1901. Barb decided to call Jane to discuss packing up the print that Jane was going to take with her to Oregon in two days. Barb doesn't even get a sentence out of her mouth when her expression becomes horrified, worried, and confused. She hangs up the phone, gets to her feet, and heads for the door, calling over her shoulder that something has gone horribly wrong and she needs to call Jane again from her apartment. The three of us sit dazed in our chairs as we wait for her return. Her report upon arrival leaves us all shaken and feeling completely helpless. Jane has heard from Jed and Kim that Kim has had an MRI on her spine and lesions have been discovered there, as well as spots in one breast and one lymph node. (I have not given Jed and Kim - and their precious baby girls - the attention they deserve in this blog because of his job. I had written and posted a narrative with photos in sections in June when we met him in New Orleans. He, very reluctantly, had to call and ask me to remove it. I am hoping that, since I have attached no last name for them, it is OK to mention them here.) The doctor anticipated the worst possible scenario.

I will go ahead and tell you immediately that Kim has had biopsies on the spots found in her breast and lymph node - BENIGN - and a later one on the spinal lesions - BENIGN!!!! We are so grateful and joyful! The question of what the lesions are, if they are not cancer, has not been anwered yet but we are hopeful that the diagnosis will be one much less frightening than the one we were expecting.