My First Post

I've been threatening to start a blog for months now. Always had some reason to not do it. Who would want to hear about what I had to say on any given day. Well today is no ordinary day, for me or my family. As I hack out my first blog, I am sitting in the ICU of Children's Hospital in Detroit, at 1:17AM, watching my 12 year old resting after he had surgery.

Mikey turned 12 one hour and seventeen minutes ago. What a way to spend your 12th birthday! It turns out he has cancer and the tumor is on his cervical spine located between C3 and C4. But lets go back a bit so you know how we got here.

Mike had been complaining about neck pain at night for a few weeks. Up until this week, some Motrin and Bio-Freeze seemed to do the trick. But things got worse this week. This week when he got up he was in extreme pain. Bring him to his knees kind of pain, and there was nothing I could do about it. The episodes would last an hour or so, then begin to trail off and he would go back to sleep.

It just so happened, that this week is also the week we chose to go on vacation from our new home in Texas, back to our old home in Michigan to visit friends and family. Three nights ago, Mikey spent the night at one of his friends house, whose Mom just happens to be a Pediatrician. He had another attack, with a Doc there to experience it first hand. The next morning she was able to get him in to see a Ortho Doc. After an examination, they agreed that Mikey should get an MRI to see what was going on. This was on a Wednesday and the MRI was scheduled for Thursday. It was as a result of the MRI that the tumor was discovered. We ended up that night in the ER of Children's Hospital in Detroit, where he was admitted. Surgery took place on Friday afternoon, the day before Mike's 12th birthday.