June 14, 2018

Picture above is my grandpa back in 2014 holding my Coco. He passed away from a 3rd stroke. He was a man of many war stories. I loved him. RIP Grandpa. Flew in to Boston from Grandpa’s funeral at 2 am in the morning. 

By the time we got home it was already 3 am.  Tevin had flank pain on the lower right back our whole weekend there in West Palm Beach starting on Saturday June 9, 2018.  It could be a Kidney stone.  Tevin did not have any bowel movement since Saturday and today is Thursday.  

Tevin left the house 7am in the morning for his Radiation session with Dr. Huang.  Dr. Huang sent Tevin to the ER to have some scans done after Tevin mentioned about the flank pain on the lower right abdomen.  

I went to work at 9 am in the morning.  It was a slow day, by the time I got out I went to the ER, Tevin was still there since 9am in the morning.  They’ve only done a CT scan, but what they really needed was an MRCP scan.  One of the Physicians Assistant came in to give us an update, she was very sweet, Tevin was about to leave due to the long wait and very hungry from not eating anything since 9pm at the airport yesterday, but they had a room ready for us upstairs in the new building.  I wanted Tevin to stay and get the necessary scans to address his flank pain.

We were moved up to the cancer care unit upstairs on floor 9 of the Lunder building MGH.  This was a new building built not too long ago.  Our view was spectacular.  It was facing the Charles River. Tevin honestly had the best view on his floor.

I slept over for the past couple of nights since Tuesday.  Fast forward to Thursday June 14, 2018, I worked today, MRI was finally taken, by the time I came back to the Hospital, Dr. Lee and his colleague stopped by to give us an update of the MRI.

They looked serious.  They said Dr. Mullen, Tevin’s GI Surgeon, said it could possibly be recurrence of cancer.  The tightening, blockage of the Ureter and the Bile duct is a rare case.  My heart just dropped, we were so hopeful that everything will be ok, our Cancun trip, Tevin beginning to eat normally again, our optimism has been ripped out again.  I couldn’t help it but cry.  I felt exhausted.