Let's Get Caught Up!

Ok, so I know it has been a very long time since we wrote last. I promise that we will make it a point to write often and let everyone know what's going on in our lives.

So, the last time I wrote was new years, so I will start there.

I don't think we have met any of our new years resolutions. We read our scriptures often but I think out of all of the resolutions we made that is the only one we have kept.

School has been great. We really wanted to work hard this semester and get really good grades. Well that lasted for about a month, I will explain why a little later.

So, we have decided that Orillia is not the place for us and that it is in our best interest to move to Barrie. We are there almost everyday, all of our family lives there and Ty works in Barrie, hopefully I'll get a job there too!

So I think it would be easier to talk about everything after have explained the main event that has taken over our lives.

About 2 weeks before Christmas Tyler noticed a lump on his testicle and knew that something was wrong. We went to the doctor who then said that we needed to go and get an ultrasound. After calling a ton of ultrasound clinics to try and find an earlier date, the earliest time would have been Jan. 12, a month after the doctors appointment, we finally found a place in Bradford. After the ultrasound we were told that Ty would have to get some blood tests done. Ty is a big baby when it comes to anything medical, but he took it like a man and got blood taken. We then were told that he would have to get some x rays, another ultrasound and meet with a Urologist. All this time we were pretty much left in the dark. No one would tell us what was going on or what the lump was. Our first thought was that it was cancer so we wanted to get all of the appointments done ASAP so that we could figure it out and get it early. So about a month later we finally had our appointment with the Urologist, 2 months earlier then we were supposed to because they moved up the appointment date for us. At the appointment he just got straight to the point and said that Ty would have to have the testicle removed in order to do a biopsy and determine what the lump was and what the next steps were. All of the blood tests, x rays and ultrasounds came back negative, they couldn't detect any cancer, but the doc wanted to remove it just to be sure. So Tyler had surgery on Feb. 6 to have the testicle removed. A week later, this past Wednesday, we had another appointment with the doctor to find out the results from the biopsy and from the CT scan that Tyler had to get a day earlier. Just to talk about the CT scan for a moment, my husband is the biggest baby in the world. In order to have a CT scan done there is this stuff that you need to drink that will help the doctors see your organs and all your insides. Anyways, so Tyler refused to drink this stuff, I do believe it tasted horrible. So he downed the first bottle ok, even though he did gage a lot. The next morning before the scan he needed to drink another bottle but WOULD NOT DO IT! So I called the hospital to see if there was another way to ingest the stuff. They said for him to come in and they would give it to him another way. They gave him a cup of orange juice withe a concentrated amount of the drink...he said that it was much better lol. So anyways, back to the appointment this past Wednesday. The doctor got straight to the point and told us that it was cancer. It is called Classic Seminoma. Luckily though, Tyler caught it very VERY early. When the doctor did the surgery he was able to remove everything and the cancer had not spread!!! We now have the decision to either just leave it and live our life and go for check ups every 6 months and hope that it doesn't come back (15% chance that it would) or to begin treatment, just a small amount of Radiation, and know that it won't come back (3% chance of the 15% chance that it would come back). I think we are going to go through with radiation because I know I would be worried all of the time if we did nothing about it. The only down side to going through with radiation is that is reduces our chances of having children. Because of this we will probably be going to a sperm bank just to ensure that we could have children. Tyler's health though is more important to me then children.

So that is what has been going on in our life and because of it everything else has pretty much been put on the back burner. We are probably going to finish our semester of school this week. We won't be able to focus on school, work and be going to Toronto for 4 weeks straight all at the same time. I am still planning on taking summer classes just so I can still graduate at the same time, so I don't think it will hurt us too much by putting this semester on hold.

We are now planning on moving to Barrie so that we can both work full time in Barrie and then when it comes time to start treatment we can be a bit closer to family and be in a place that we really love.

So, I haven't worked at all since the summer. I have been looking for jobs, but just can't find anything in Orillia. Ty was working while we were in school so money wasn't really an issue, but now that OSAP has run out and it is nearing the end of the school year we are going to need some income coming in. We both have great jobs lined up for the summer but I need a job to get us to the summer. Now that we are moving to Barrie though I am really looking forward to working full time at a place I like. I still haven't found a job yet but I have been searching and finding some great job postings online in Barrie.

Well, that is just a little taste of what our life had been like. There is more to come, just need to wait for the right time.