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Needle Biopsy

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Aaron had his needle biopsy today. The procedure went well except for the fact that none of the pain medications worked. It was not a pleasant procedure. Afterwards, his x-rays showed pneumothorax (a collapsed lung). A chest tube had to be placed and again the lidocaine did not work or any other medication he was given to make it a pain free procedure. Our Maddie said, "Dad said it was painful and that means it was bad because Dad never says things hurt even when you know they probably did." Very true. We all feel badly he's had to have such pain today and that he had to go it alone for the most part. I usually stay with him, but today was the first day of school and we hadn't planned on being at the hospital so long. I had to get home. We are grateful the needle biopsy is completed and that Aaron found a way to have it tagged as high priority. Hopefully we can get results back in two weeks instead of four.

Bak to school. I wish I knew how to crop all the funny details in the background
like the open front door and the fact that half of our kids don't have shoes on, etc. I can just say that it was a very busy day for us and I was lucky to get them all in the picture before school.

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  1. BrittanyAugust 25, 2016 at 9:32 PM

    I love the reality of that picture, and thank you for the update. Praying praying praying.

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  2. mkAugust 28, 2016 at 12:51 PM

    ❤️

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