Blog Post Keith’s Brain Tumor Journey Part 2

Keith is doing great. He is still on "hospital sleeping schedule". Meaning... he is waking up frequently in the night. We are trying to figure out how to get him to fall asleep and stay asleep for longer than 2 hours. I (Jen, his wife) will call the nurse today and see what her recommendations are. Keith woke up feeling better today. Yesterday he was good but I think he was processing the circumstances and seemed sad and down. If you know Keith, that is not a natural state for him. I told him that those around him have had a week to process and cry and talk and be mad. He is really only on day two/three of processing what happened last week, what he went through in just a handful of days, what he is going through now to heal and all the what-if's of the future. Keith's daughter is in town today and she will spend the day with him caring for him and distracting him. His boys went to school today and I get to work and see some clients. I will share a bit about how we got to this point for those that are curious ;-) About two months ago Keith felt these odd body sensations that would wake him from his sleep. This happened about 6 times in the night. We knew something was odd but we thought maybe they were panic attacks. We didn't fullly dismiss it and went to see his primary care provider. We found he had some thyroid issues and started him on thyroid. Everything else in his blood work was perfect. One night after dinner, Keith had what we were calling an "episode". This was the first one that he had while he was awake. It looked like panic to me but there were some odd things that made me think "hum.... this could be more than panic". So, we scheduled him testing with a cardiologist and a neurologist. On Monday the the 17th Keith had an MRI at 8:00 in the morning. At 12:30 he received a call from that office and they advised him to check into the hospital immediately. On the way to the hospital, he had an "episode" and was in a minor car incident. This situation lead him to be taken the hospital via ambulance where he was admitted and where we quickly discovered the brain tumor. I will share more later but wanted to give the basics of the story. God's hand is all over this and I will share more about that later this week.