OT hubby

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I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. We might have a long

road ahead of us. Since Feb. the hubby has been having bad head aches. And

these spells where he just kind of blacks out and doesn't remember. Well he was

having seizures. Over the weekend he had a large one..... did remember me or

where he was, couldn't speak, and couldn't walk. Took him to ER and the did a

CT scan (after they accused him of doing street drugs) and found the tumor. The

sent us to Iowa City. The Dr.'s have got him better with seizure meds and meds

to reduce the swelling. The have let us come home until Monday so he can spend

some time with the kids.

At this point we do not know a whole lot. It it rather large, tennis ball

size. It also has tenicles (sp?) and blood vessels that go directly into the

brain. They will not be able to remove that due to the damage it will cause.

Even if everything goes well, it is a good possibility that he will loose the

vision in his left eye and movement of left arm/hand, just from the location of

the tumor. This will be something that we can live with. They are also very

worried about swelling, since he already has it. That in it self can cause all

kinds of damage to the brain.

He is having surgery Monday around 1:30pm and should last 6-8 hours. We will

know by Wen. if it is cancer.

I talked to nurse . See in all this process I left so fast to Iowa City,

that I forgot to give my mom Karter's shoes so he has been out of shoes since

Sat. Morning. I told her we might need some more casts. maria said they could

do that. Such a bad mommy. So know in the next couple days I need to show

about 4 people how to get the shoes on and hopefully they do good so we don't

end up with sores.

Thank you all again, We will try to keep you updated. Otherwise we do have a

webpage for him to keep everyone updated it is

www.caringbridge.org/visit/jacobyarolim

Tabitha

mommy to

Brittanie 6

Karter blcf 21 months

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