a hospital visit

Hi everyone.

Thanks for all the prayer and support and love that you have given us the past couple days.

Short Story:

was supposed to have surgery today and didnt instead had a xray, cat scan, and two drs look at eric to figure out what is wrong with him.

Long Story:

Eric went in for a check up on tuesday afternoon and instead was tested for TB, anemia, had an xray and an appointment set up for surgery on wed in okc with a cardiac surgeon. We drove in to the city late tues night and stayed with his parents. Wed morning I called the hospital to get more information because all we knew was that he was having surgery that day and it was at 2(The dr at OSU didnt tell us anything about what kind of the procedure this was going to be). The secretary said that he was just coming in for a consultation with the dr. I was kind of bewildered, yet relieved, since we thought he was going in for surgery.

Once at the hospital he had to get another xray and was seen by the dr. (cardiac surgeon) who said that we needed to keep doing some test and a cat scan to see what is going on in his right lung. He said that the osu dr had an overreaction in telling Eric he was going to have surgery that day and he wanted to figure out exactly what was going on before he went in and took anything out. This dr. also made sure the pulmonary dr. was interrupted from his schedule so that he could look at Eric's cat scan immediately.

After his cat scan we talked with the pulmonary dr. He asked Eric a series of questions of when everything started happening, then Eric told him that he went to Africa this past summer and the dr. started talking about how this was the most likely answer to what was going on inside his body. Since he got a TB test they were going to be able to see the result tomorrow and he wanted Eric to come back in on Thurs so he could see. He also said that eric is coming back in Thurs for a binocular scope look into his right lung where the dr is going to take samples of the mass in his lung and send it to the lab. The tests can be back as early at Thurs afternoon or as late as monday (we are praying for Thurs, this way we can stay in the city and figure out what we need to do next without driving back and forth).

So when we get done at the hospital tomorrow I will post another update. Eric goes in at 830am and the procedure is at 10am (looking into his lung). Please continue praying for this and give the drs wisdom to give the correct diagnosis. Thanks!

Heather & Eric