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I have been meaning to share this and keep forgetting. If you’ve been following Cade’s story from the beginning, you know that Chris had a tumor when he was a child as well. Because of this, Chris has a scar up the back of his head.  Wednesday I had to get away for a littleContinue reading “Cade and Daddy Moment”

Today was overall a good day. Cade had some visitors this morning and my sister came as well and she & I left the hospital and walked across the street to eat at Brunch Cafe. It was good to get out for just a little bit. He went down for the quick MRI around noonContinue reading “Our Day”

It’s hard to believe how much time we have been here already. This week, Chris and I ironically were both on vacation. We had plans for a staycation to take the boys and do stuff around our area that we don’t often get to do between both of our schedules. Hard to believe that weekContinue reading “Saturday”

I am so behind on my updates! We have had a very busy last 2 days!! Cade has still been having issues with nausea and vomiting since surgery. They said this was a chance due to the fact that the tumor was growing on the vomiting center. However, it hasn’t seemed to improve much. TheyContinue reading “Progress Note ;)”

Dr Ruge updated us this morning that the final pathology report is also showing the tumor to be a Medullablastoma. This of course is not the news we were hoping for. We were still hoping there could be some miracle turn of events and the final path show it to be a benign astrocytoma likeContinue reading “Pathology Report”

The last 24 hours has been challenging for me. Yesterday I was exhausted. Completely over tired from the rough night Cade had had, and when I’m overtired, I am emotional. I just couldn’t shake it. Cade had began having nightmares that night and at one point when I was in bed with him during one,Continue reading “Thursday”

Cade did in fact make it down to MRI yesterday by 11 and did great. He had a repeat MRI with and without contrast which was planned for post op comparison and review. Dr Ruge was very happy with the results. It shows a full resection, with the exception of that very thin layer heContinue reading “MRI Results and Post Op Update”

Cade had a pretty good night overall. He would wake up uncomfortable here and there. Mostly he’d drift back off to sleep, but around 4am he was really agitated and saying his head hurts, so he got some morphine to help. He is still throwing up little amounts of mucus, which breaks my heart becauseContinue reading “Tuesday”

Here they do their own postoperative recoveries in their PICU room, which is great! Cade came back to his room for recovery extubated, meaning he did not have the breathing tube in. This was reassuring because it was an uncertainty with the nature of the tumor and how it had grown. Due to its position andContinue reading “Post-op Update”

Dr Ruge came out to update us and our families in our private family waiting lounge. He sat down with us and talked about everything he did. Cade tolerated the surgery great. They were able to remove 99% of the tumor. The tumor was growing on the vomiting center of his brain, which was whyContinue reading “Neurosurgeon Report”