Biopsy Results

11-5:  I am so awesome that I set the alarm for p.m. and overslept.  We were 30 minutes late to check in but they didn't say a word to us about it.  Things went smoothly as we were seen by the anesthesiologist, a fellow on the surgeon's team, and several nurses.  We were told that because they were removing a small piece of his shin bone it would weaken the bone, so they would be putting a cast on his leg for a few weeks to make sure he didn't break it.  This procedure required him to be under general anesthesia.  They gave him an anti-anxiety medicine (which made his loopy) and then wheeled him back to the operating room.  It's hard to remember, but after a while the surgeon came in to tell us the bad news.  They had sent the sample to pathology and it already came back as cancer.  I have little memory of the rest of the conversation, and held it together barely long enough for him to leave the room.  Our nightmare was confirmed, our baby has cancer.