The waiting game...

Recently my husband Jimmy was diagnosed with grave's disease. For those of you who dont know it is a thyroid condition. (you can read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves'_disease ). After about 2 weeks of what seemed like endless tests he was set up to see an oncologist. So last friday we met with Dr. Patten at Mary Bird Perkins cancer center. Not only does he have graves disease but he may have some form of lymphoma on top of it. Aparently the symptoms are almost exactly the same as the graves so in his case its hard to diagnose. Also the lymph nodes that are larger than normal are internal (cant be felt at the surface)so getting a byopsy would be extremely invasive. On top of all that his spleen is slighly inlarged and his liver enzymes are higher than normal. So at the dr they took about 8 vials of blood to run a full spectrum to test for various auto-immune disorders and different types of lymphoma. His follow up appointment is set for this Wednesday so now we are playing the waiting game. The oncologist also set him up with an endocronologist to deal with his thyroid. The waiting is killing me. I just wish we had some answers because he needs to get better.... until next time.