Roller Coaster

These last two weeks have been one HELL of a roller coaster ride. The love of my life (even though we are kind of broken up, yeah right...lol) has been having some upper back pain for about a month and passing kidney stones like crazy. First he went to a doc in the box and they gave him some muscle relaxers and said he just strained his back due to passing so many kidney stones. Well on Friday, March 13th he finally went to the ER as he could not stand the pain anymore. They admitted him for upper back pain. He finally had an x-ray which showed a spot on his right lung, this entailed having a CT scan done which showed a 6 cm mass on his right lung. He then had to have a bronoscopy done. Now mind you these was over the course of a few days. So there he is laying in the bed hurting and scared out of his mind not knowing what is going on. In walks the resident (who in my opinion really needs to work on his bed side manner) and proceeds to tell us that Ted has lung cancer. Ok, so now we have just had the damn wind kicked out of us. Lung Cancer @ 33?????!!!!! WTF?!?!
Then the onslaught of other doctors start, first there is the hospitalist(whom we're not sure what in the hell he is there for), the oncologist who finally tells us that the test results came back as cancer but they are not sure what kind. Ok, so the resident told us Lung Cancer and now we don't know, what in the hell?, it is like the right hand is NOT talking to the left hand at this point.
He then has a thoracic surgeon do a procedure where he cuts about a 3 in incision right underneath the Adam's Apple and take a larger piece of tissue from the tumor as the Bronchoscopy came back inconclusive. About a day later the oncologist comes back and tells us that it is a "germ cell tumor". Basically this is testicular cancer that has spread to his lung. It is a very rare cancer that only about 1 in a million people get. So after a week of fretting and thinking that he has lung cancer, we are told something totally different but the great thing is that this is 90% treatable. Through this whole time Ted has managed to keep his sense of humor as he is on a lot of medication, steroids (to which he asks all the nurses if he will play baseball better now), blood thinner, pain meds, and fluids.
After the test comes back with a definite diagnosis, he is then told that this is an aggressive cancer and that the oncologist wants him to start chemo immediately to fight this.
He has to have 4 rounds of chemo which is 5 days on then 5 days off and so on (all in all about 2 months worth). He is on Bleomycin, VP 16, and another one which I cannot think of at this time.
Let me just say this man is a trooper!! It is very hard to watch someone you care about lay in the bed and receive chemo and grow weaker and weaker by the day. Thank god they have him on medication that keeps him knocked out for most of it.
After 12 days he finally got to go home yesterday and is resting quite well, which I am sure is due partly to pain medication and the other part from being so weak from the chemo.
I stayed at the hospital with him a lot and got him home and settled. I could not imagine not being there for him as I know that he would do the same for me if I were in his shoes. We are all praying and hoping that he only has to go through 4 rounds of chemo. Will post more later.