Our Whirlwind

(Written 8/4/8 4:00 AM)
Well tonight/this morning has been a sleepless night in the Greenway Casa. Tom's back began hurting this afternoon shortly after lunch, and continued geting worse all day. Finally after we left evening worship service early, we went to the ER around 9:30. Here it is 4:30am and I am still up... not good. We are home now, Tom is resting, but we have an appointment in the morning with a surgeon who is (hopefully soon) going to biopsy the 5 cm "nodule" in Tom's left side. We don't have any idea what it is at this point, but we are begging for your prayers. Two prayers have already been answered; 1) we went to the ER and found out what s going on, and 2) Tom is sleeping comfortably right now.
I'll keep you updated as we know more what is going on.


(Written 8/4/8 4:00 PM)
We just got back and settled in from seeing the doctor. The current thought is that the mass is a extra-adrenal (outside the adrenal gland) pheochromocytoma (epinepherine/norepinepherine secreting usually benign tumor). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheochromocytoma

We are running more lab and will go have a MRI tomorrow to confirm/rule out this diagnosis. Tom is feeling a lot better, his pain and nausea are both much more under control. I am feeling a lot better since this is a condition that I have both recently studied and seen 2 cases in my short time in clinical. It could be better, but it could be a lot worse.

We still will cherish your prayers and will keep everyone updated. We won't hear back anything until Wednesday or Thursday.
Love to you all,
MB and Tom