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The results are in…..you have CANCER!

So, I asked when I went in for the infection on the biopsy how they would tell me about my results. She said if they were negative they would tell me on the phone or if it was positive they would have me come in for a consultation. 

So the wait continues. Remember I said that the results could take 5 to 7 business days, yep it took all 7 days. I got the call in the late afternoon, they wanted to see me and Lyle at the clinic at 5pm.  So this is when I officially hear the words, the results show it is cancerous .

OMG now what.  We were given options of what the next steps should be.  She gave us options of people she would refer us to.  We took the night to digest it all with plans to tell her in the morning what direction we wanted to go.

We headed home and told the boys. Then, Lyle was a champ and called my sister, which of course knew what I had been going through.  So you can imagine as soon as she saw his number come up she knew that it wasn’t good news.  We aren’t telling my mom yet, want to wait until we know more.

We then drove to Baxter to tell Lyle’s family in person since they had NO CLUE what we had been dealing with the last month.  We were able to catch his mom, brother, aunt and uncle before their evening walk.  Of course they know something was up with the 2 of us showing up.  


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