Day by Day.

Not to get all technical but it
 looks like Donnie's mass
is under the purple and blue bones.
Pushing into his eye and creeping
where the teal bone is.

So yesterday was the ear, nose and throat appointment. I guess it went as good as it could. We really liked the doctor (Dr. Lomax), he was very informational. He showed us all of Donnie's scans and explained as much as he could, which is a rarity with doctors! He also did a scope exam through Donnie's nose and looked at his sinuses and his ears. Dr. Lomax said by looking at the images and what he saw himself, that it looks like the lump is located under his orbital bone. Which is all the bones that make up your eye socket and a little bit of your cheek bone. Haha sorry for the science lesson over to the side, it's just sometimes easier to visualize it if you can see a picture. So he will also need to see an Ophthalmologist (deals with anything involving the eye or around it). He will be able to do more for Donnie if it is more in his eye. But the first step is MRI, no doctor can really tell anything until Donnie gets one. A MRI is just more detailed, they are able to see where it is exactly. In the cat scan the doctor just really couldn't tell where it starts and stops and exactly how big it is. I mean you can pretty much see around where it is but not good enough to be able to tell where they can biopsy it! So this morning he had his MRI. It was kind of a nightmare though because I forgot the referral paper at home and we were all the way across town. But the nurse ensured me that it was no big deal they would just call my doctor (Dr. Forsythe) and have him fax it over. Well apparently they were too busy to do that. Nice I know! So I called and had a few words with them. ::I generally have pretty good patience with doctors and their staff but I have been trying to get a hold of Dr. Forsythe for the last 3 days and NO one will call me back, so by this morning I could say that I was a little pissed:: The office girl told me that it was my fault that I left the referral paper and she didn't have time to deal with me! Yes, it was my fault, people make mistakes, but they are his doctor and he NEEDS to get this MRI done. Long story short I had to drive all the way home because they could not take 5 minutes and fax it! I was furious though, my husband is in pain, we need this process done like yesterday! Actually I didn't drive all the way home because I had a nice enough Aunt to meet me half way, which totally saved the day :) But still it's annoying because, there are so many steps before something can actually be done about it. Anyway, he was able to get the MRI done but we weren't able to make the Ophthalmology appointment that was directly following the MRI so we had to reschedule for Monday. Then Tuesday is back to the ENT. Because of course all of this had to happen at the end of the week and not the beginning :) Hopefully after all that we will be able to get some answers as too what they can do for him. Dr. Lomax also said that there is a lot of lymphatic tissue behind the nose and around the sinuses, so even just removing the lump might not help. Donnie would probably have to get additional treatment to get rid of the other tissue that looks to be enlarged. So, we'll see. As of right now Donnie isn't working, He's having to take a lot of pain pills to deal with the pain so he pretty much just sleeps a lot. Our main priority is getting him healthy. We are just taking it one day at a time :)