Caution these photos might make you squeamish. In a matter of a week the comfort of our life flipped and flopped. Dave went into the doctor because his shoulder was causing him grief after a few basketball games and so he decided to get it checked out and while he was at the doctor he got a physical and the doctor noticed a mole that he thought they should check so they took a punch biopsy and a week later it came back that it was cancer.o the doctor called me and told me Dave has cancer and we need to get him into a surgeon and get it removed. So the surgeon called me and they got in him the next day. Well in the mean time I am thinking that it is not a big deal that they will remove it in the office and he will be good for go. My thoughts changed when Dave walked into the door with a terrible look on his face and told me it was serious and that he will be going in for surgery on Tuesday. Then I started to panic and tried the best I could to hold it together but to think that your husband could die is a terrible thing!
So on Tuesday Dave went in to the hospital they injected the site with dye to watch where it went and it traveled to the lumph nodes. They took him in for surgery at 11:10 and he did not come back until 3:30. It was a long surgery and he has a great battle wound to show off. They took out 5 lymph nodes and all the cancer. The best news is that the lymph nodes came back ok. So for now Dave is doing great and that cancer is gone. But he is at high risk for more cancer so he has to be checked every 6 months to be safe! I am so grateful for him and that he was so strong through the whole thing. I am grateful I get to have him around for a long time!
