Tanner's Journey: Thank you

Monday, June 4, 2012

Thank you

I'm going to take a break from the blog for a while... Seek some healing on my own.

Thank you for the support the last three years. I couldn't have made it this far without you all...

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places...

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tahoegirl.blogMonday, June 04, 2012
I hope it all goes well for you and Tanner. I have enjoyed your blogs. Take care of yourself, and I send good thoughts to Tanner that he gets the pain relief he needs, you have been an amazing mom.
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LindaMonday, June 04, 2012
New to your blog from Myeloma Beacon. I'm praying here in NC for Tanner, and for his sweet Mama. So much for someone so young to endure. My heart breaks for you...
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Titus 2 ThandiTuesday, June 05, 2012
Won't stop praying for you.
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UnknownSaturday, June 09, 2012
Angie: Boy, do I understand this "needing to take a break"....I, too, have been away from my blog. Just couldn't do it. I hope the "vacation" helps, and I hope you're able to come back to us, soon!!

As for Tanner, he's in my thoughts and in my prayers.
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AnonymousSunday, June 17, 2012
dear angie, it's hard to even fathom the emotional roller coaster both you and tanner have been on. your strength, courage and perseverance have been such an inspiration, but must also have taken such a toll on all counts. good for you for realizing that taking a break from your blog was what you needed to do to re-new and re-store yourself. you are such a loving and wonderful mother, and tanner is so lucky to have you. taking care of yourself is just another way of taking good care of your beautiful son. i will miss you, but will be BELIEVING you will find the healing and peace you are looking for. love, xo, karen sutherland
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Recap

One summer day in 2009 my 17 year old son, Tanner Walker, decided to go swimming at a friend's house. While walking across the yard, his left leg collapsed and his tibia snapped completely in two.

Of course we were upset and worried that afternoon when I rushed him to the Emergency Room but I have to admit that the thought of cancer never entered our minds until the doctor came back into the room and told us "There's no easy was to say this other than just say it. There is a tumor in the bone".

They put Tanner in a splint and sent us home and over the next two weeks he saw several doctors who told us it "might be cancer - or it might be nothing" and eventually surgery was performed to repair the break and a biopsy was taken.

After the procedure, the surgeon came out and told us that the good news was that it wasn't cancer - but the bad news was that they didn't know what it was.

Two weeks later, my cell phone rang and it was the doctor wanting to speak to me and explain that they had found a Pathologist who had, finally, diagnosed the lesion as Multiple Myeloma. Can you imagine? I was at work and at that very moment my world, my son's world, our family's world - were all forever changed.

After a full body scan was performed Tanner was found to have hundreds - "innumerable"- lesions in the bones throughout his body and the Oncologist told me (privately) that at the stage he was at, he most likely only had two years to live.

Luckily, we were referred to the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at UAMS in Little Rock Arkansas where Tanner underwent some of the most aggressive treatment available including chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants. Now, over three years later, he remains in full remission.

He receives maintenance treatment here locally and is back to living the life of a young man... A young man with Multiple Myeloma.

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