January 22, 2014

This day started out like any other day around our house.  Got the kids off to school and Roy went to work.  I had an appointment to take Tye to the doctor for what we thought were allergies.  Both of his eyes seemed swollen.  Other than that he was a healthy, active, happy two year old boy.  After our pediatrician looked at him she said allergies didn't seem to be the problem.  She consulted with other doctors in the office and then came back a few minutes later.  She said she didn't want me to worry but she did want me to go to Primary Children's Hospital later that same day for a CT Scan of his head.  At that very moment I knew something was not right.

Later that day I picked up Roy from work and we headed to the hospital.  We had the scan done and while we were waiting for the results to come back we both knew something serious was wrong.  The hospital staff was running around trying to organize a bunch of people to come down to talk to us.  A little while later we were taken into a room with a couple of doctors, a social worker and our pediatrician was on the phone.  At that time we were told that there were numerous tumors throughout his head and in his eye sockets.  That is why his eyes looked so swollen.  At that point they knew it was cancer but didn't really know what kind and to what extent.

We were admitted right away to the Oncology unit at Primary Children's and spent the next few days doing test after test to get the right diagnosis.  Eventually it came back that Tye has Neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer.

For sure a day we will never forget.