Momma never said there would be days like this...

WOW, haven't been here in a while. Alrighty then, lets dust this thing off and get right to it, shall we?

This started as a blog about my daughter Brook, who happens to have Down syndrome. Mixed in was tid~bits about my oldest daughter, Mary, aka The Googs, as well. There was a sprinkling of talk of my Hubby, aka The Hubbs, who happens to be terminally ill. As of today, 7/15/2011, this blog will be changing to document the journey about The Googs, who was diagnosed w/ adult Melanoma. So now, through the eyes of The Momma, follow the journey of my only daughters. The Brookster, growing up with Down syndrome which has been an absolute blessing to me and then having my first born, The Googs, fight for her life w/the beast, Melanoma.

How it all started for The Googs. Lets start from the begining. Back in May I took The Googs into her PCP to look at this little "thing" on the top of her foot. Looked like a blister. Looked NOTHING like Melanoma you would see in pictures. Her PCP did a shave biopsy of the "thing" on her foot and sent it up to The Hill aka OHSU. The team looked it over and was puzzled. "Please come in right away (as in tomorrow) to meet the ped. derm., Dr. H, and have it checked out" they said. Fine, and off we go. They cut a CHUNK off/out of The Googs foot and had to send it down to San Fran for even more testing.


They said it would be a few weeks.

Waiting........ hum de dum......

Phone rings...

"Hello" says The Momma
"Is this The Momma" says Dr. H.
"Yes it is. How are you Dr. H?"
"Oh, i'm fine, and you, The Momma?"
My reply, always is "Oh just hangin'."
"Well, The Momma, we have the results back from The Googs foot biopsy and there is no need to come up here to see me right now"

Whewwww, thinks The Momma

"I need you to go see Dr.V up on The Hill ASAP (as in RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!)"
"Huh, who is he?" says The Momma
"The Momma, your daughter, The Googs, has Melanoma, and Dr.V is an Oncologist.

I hit the ground like a ton of frikkin' bricks and swear I wasn't breathing. I thought I had died!!!

"Yes Dr. H. we will go there" is all I could muster out of my mouth. I proceded to the bathroom to barf and bawl like i've never bawled in my life.

We went yesterday to meet this Dr.V. Nice guy. The best of the best on this disease. He talked alot. He set up yet another surgery for the 29th of July. They will be doing lymph node mapping, removal of more of her foot, skin graph for said area of foot to be removed, they will take out some lymph nodes, send it off to the patholigist for even more review, and then we will stage her Melanoma, yet again. Right now, my 17yr old, first born daughter, The Googs, is staged with 1B adult Melanoma.

And we wait............