At the end of December 2005 Stacie was having increased frequency of migraine headaches. She had one at work that sent her home for the day. On friday of that same week she experienced spots of light that was similar to a camera flash going off. She was blinded in one eye for over 4 hours and again had to go home.
We went to the doctor on a Saturday morning. The doctor (not our family practitioner) checked her for a stroke, told us to journal the headaches and go back to our family doctor in one month....that was not satisfactory.
So, the following week Stacie went to our family doctor who scheduled her for a MRI. Stacie's MRI was on Tuesday January 10th, 2006. We were told not to expect results for approximately two weeks. After the MRI was completed they asked us to stick around. Later they mentioned that they were trying to contact our doctor and we should call the doctor the following day if we didn't hear anything. It didn't dawn on us that something might be wrong.
I assumed that maybe they'd find something insignificant that could be fixed with some rest or medicine and we'd be on our way.
I still remember the phone call. Stacie' had fixed her chicken tortilla soup, which is my favorite. The phone rang around 6pm. Stacie took the call in the other room while Bai and I ate dinner. It seemed like she was on that call for awhile so I went to check on her.
When I walked into the office she was writing on the eraser board....grapefruit sized tumor, left side, just behind forehead....
Once she got off the phone we were both shocked and didn't quite know what to say at first. The first thing we talked about was how to tell Bai. It's hard enough for an adult to swallow.
We went to the living room together and told her that mom had something on her brain that wasn't supposed to be there and we needed to go see another doctor. I think what worried her more than our discussion was all the phone calls we made that night to family and friends. We called our parents first, and then were on the phone well into the night calling others.
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