Initial Diagnosis 9/7/12

September 7, 2012

Anne was taken to the ER at Mercy Hospital Anderson for severe back pain around 6am.  By that afternon, she had received the news that her pain was caused by two compression fractures in her spine, and she had bone cancer.  She was told that the bone cancer was a secondary cancer, and that the initial cancerwas still unknown.  Test after test was run, and as results started coming back, answers were slowly being answered, very slowly.  When Doug and Anne got home that night, they talked with Sam and I and explained what they knew, which didn't seem to be much at the time.  She was diagnosed with secondary bone cancer, possible lung cancer, 2 compression fractures in her spine (for which she needed surgery and a back brace), and she had at least 2 or 3 tumors.  She left the ER that day with many appointments for the following week as well as huge question, what's next?