Under the sea! – Entry #2

So we are treading lightly here. We have met with a team of Doctors, all with the biggest hearts, compassion, and determination. Each one of them has made Olive giggle or smile which has brought joy within this twisted form of fate.

Olive is at very high risk of having airway issues because of where the tumor lays. She has gone through some tough IV starts and continues to be asked by the doctors if one more test, picture, scan is okay.. Each time I can see fear in her eyes but her steel WILL stand strong in front of that. She has a true game face. Each time another obstacle is added, Olive gets her game face on and I know Olive the brave is ready. She amazes us.

This day has been drawn out because we are waiting for a surgeon and the right team of anesthesologist to care for olive so she can have a thorocentesis. (Drawing fluid from around the lung).

At 4pm it’s a go. They tell us Megan can be in the OR with her. As we get Olive into her wheelchair I climb into my”marshmallow” suit, as Olive called it. The childcare specialist was there and we start her bubble parade out of the intensive care unit down a hallway and into the OR. Game face on and a slight smile, Olive was off. The operating room welcomed us with music from the little mermaid “under the sea playing” with bubbles continuing to be blown through the air. She fell asleep quickly after receiving her “bubble gum” air. I cannot paint a more perfectly planned symphony. 2 anesthesologist at her head a surgeon at her side, the pediatric oncologist waiting to grab the specimens and take it to pathology, the child care specialist there to make sure bubbles were flowing until she was fast asleep and 2 nurses in the room, both of their names Megan. If I was included we had 3 nurses named Megan to be at our little ladies side. A beautiful power is present.

If we get confirmation that Olive has cancer in this speciment  we are told this is good because we can  start treatment and no more invasive procedures need to be done to diagnosis her. ( it is amazing in a split second what becomes your Good.)

We were told a short while later it is CANCER! I hugged the doctor, how could I be excited for this?  It was in that moment I knew we could get treatment going soon and start to cure our Olive.

The specimen had to have some tests done over night to determine which kind of cells but we are very close to a diagnosis. They start her on steroids tonight, Wednesday Jan. 8th, which will help start to decrease inflammation in her chest  which will decrease her airway risk. Ahhhh a little air enters all our chests. Sweet dreams Ollie. We all love you.

meg