Josh Update

We went to St Louis on Wed for a follow up appt. He had another MRI done and we seen the neurosurgeon's PA. The PA thinks there's a more perdominate area seen on his scan--hopefully its just the image. I also asked the PA if the area in his brain was really that big (as seen on the MRI) and she said yes its 6 in x 2 in. and hasn't grown any---so that good. We still don't know exactly what we are dealing with. We do know its not cancer, not an auto immune disease and the only thing is to keep an eye on it to see if it changes any or his symptoms worsen. Children's is rated in the top for the neuro dept so that gives me a little comfort as I know some things happen and you can't explain every medical issue that arises but it does get frustrating at times still not knowing. Josh is dealing with it OK now and he was with me the whole time I was asking questions so he know we aren't lying to him about anything. (He doesn't understand why they don't know what it is and he thought it was cancer and we weren't telling him) The neurosurgeon won't be back in the office until Mon and we will see what he thinks about the scan.

Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers that its nothing to worry about.


The roads down there was pretty wicked in the morning and we could only travel 20 mph. We were only about 25 miles from home when we hit a patch of ice and started a pretty good slide to the right with a huge ditch, then we were headed to the left and we ended up doing a 180 on I-74 facing oncoming traffic. It was pretty scary but I was proud of not putting us in either ditch. My 2 older boys who are driving age was pretty impressed with me. Hannah wanted to do it again! Yep my fearless girl! We get close to Effingham when we about rear ended some lady who decides she wants to stop in the middle of the road to back up and get on her exit. I looked in the rear view mirror and all I could see was a semi 3 cars back with his trailer fish tailing and it was even with his cab. I would have felt so bad if he went into the ditch. We seen many cars and semi's in the ditch. Thank God DH's load was cancelled at the last minute (not in time to go with us tho) so I didn't have to worry about him being out in this with that big of a truck. On the way back the roads were clear and you could actually go the speed limit.