No one expects the call, “your son has a mass on the brain”, so when the call comes, regardless everything else is going to the back burner. You and your wife, grab the basics, lock the door and 800 miles later you are there. Full of questions, anxiety, fears and faith. You’ve run through all the worst case scenarios, and resigning yourself that regardless “you can handle it”, that said, you lock those thoughts away, they have no place in the present – now properly sorted.
Next is filtering through all the Doctor details, logistics, family updates, and remembering you are both here to support your son and his wife during this challenge. Not to take over, but to provide support, emotional and mental, to be the voice in the background helping keep the focus on important, not the drama.
I know there are MANY challenges ahead. I am reminded that it is a combination of God’s will, the surgeons skill, and my son’s positive energy and love for his wife and life that will win the day.
I am extremely proud of all of my sons and the men they continue to become. And twenty years from now oh the discussions we will have about how quickly he recovered.
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UPDATE 27 April 2019
Blessed and highly favored. His recovery was nothing short of a miricle. Home four days after surgery. Medical professionals, supportive wife and family took great care of him. He was back to full speed in an amazing short period of time….