Tanner's Journey: Thanks for the love

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Thank you all for your love.

I cant hardly read all these comments without a tear dropping from my eyes. It gives me so much spirit to hear that people i dont even know are willing to share their love and gratitude with me. I appreciate the support from everyone, even my mother is appreciating you all. Which makes me feel great on the inside. LOL I try to keep a very high spirit about all of this so that way i will keep myself, my mom and everyone else who is worrying about me. my mother says im the only thing keeping her strong which is secretly why I keep a high spirit, so that she wont feel down or sad ha ha. so they are waiting on me to get off here to go get some food lol mainly a fast food burger since i havent eaten anything except a salad and a nasty hospital sandwhich in the last 20 hours so yes im hungry... once again thank you all for your support...

Tanner Walker peace out!!!

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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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Thank you all for your love.

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