Saturday, September 22, 2012

Update on Alexis

So the whole thing going on with Alexis is making my head spin.  We have been taking a anti-biotic for the past week and putting a heating pad on it and eating lots of sour things... and massaging it.  And it still has not changed at all.  So I went in to see her doctor on Wed. and he still acted a little strange.  At first I felt like he had forgotten about us and was a little unprepared because I thought he would have a appointment lined up for the Specialist in Salt Lake, and have the next step ready for us.  So when he said that he would make sure he would call the Dr. that day I said, "are you going to write our name down or anything so you don't forget to do it?"  And he looked a little surprised and said, "oh trust me, I have not stopped thinking about it and I WILL NOT forget it."  So I asked him what he meant and he said that he was still a little concerned and still going over all her symptoms and it just didn't add up.  She was not at all normal and has no signs leading up to having a stone.  Most of the time when someone has a stone in a gland it is the size of a strawberry seed or even a popcorn seed and it just blocks off the duct so the gland gets backed up with saliva and will swell huge and feel like a water balloon until you get all the fluids out.  Well Alexis has no fluid in her gland at all and her stone is the size of a nickel or quarter even.  It has not made her sick in any way, her face didn't swell, and her neck didn't swell.  It really doesn't hurt her and if her music teacher from our ward wouldn't have said something.... I may not have ever noticed it.  
So later that day he said he called the specialist in Salt Lake and he wants to see her.  He also had a few different Radiologists go over her ultra sound and he said there was "a difference in opinions"  so they need her to come in right away and get a biopsy taken from it and run some more tests.   When I asked him what "difference of opinions" meant he just told me that he was going to be very vague and he didn't want to tell me anything else.
My mind has been going crazy and I really don't know how to take that or what to think but when I asked Ryan how he felt about everything he told me that he felt alright...... And that makes me feel so much better.  I know that if he was afraid that I would lose it.  I am trying not to think the worst and be positive and keep saying that it going to be fine and it will all work out.
The soonest they could get us in was Monday morning because no one works on the weekends....(for some reason it feels like Monday is taking FOREVER to get here and I do and don't really want it to come)

1 comment:

Emily said...

good luck tomorrow! I'll be thinking of you guys.