Hello from Kansas City.  We finally made it.  I am sitting in the waiting room of a surgical center while Tammy is back finally getting the surgery on her eye.  It has been a long road to get here but hopefully in about another hour we will finally have some answers to the mystery bumps that are around her right eye.

This surgery was supposed to be on February 20th in Wichita.  A few days before the surgery the doctor called and said that there was another lesion a little deeper and he was not comfortable doing the surgery.  He did give us another lead to a opthomoligist in Kansas City and so here we are three weeks later.  Hopefully by the time I get done with this I will have some information for you as to what is really going on up there.

Many of you have probably heard or were wondering about Tammy being in the

hospital this past weekend.  We received lots of messages asking why Tammy was not at Kylee’s signing for Bethany.  Last week turned into a burger for her.  The week before she had finally got through her steroid taper and was looking forward to being off of them for a while.  In the mean time she had upped her dose of stivarga(chemo).  She was having quite a few side affects after they bumped up the dose and last week it seemed that she was getting weaker by the day.  The last straw was Friday morning.  She was supposed to have an MRI and a follow-up with her brain surgeon at nine-thirty.  I called to make sure she was ready to go for her mom and dad and she said that she had cancelled the appointments.  She said that she didn’t think she had enough energy to do those and get to Kylee’s signing.  That was ok with me because I knew she was tired.  The tipping point for me was when I called to make sure that they were ready to leave for the signing and she said she could not do it.  She didn’t have enough strength to get up and get there.  As soon as she hung up I called the doctor’s office and told them that we had to do something.  Things were just not right.  We got through the signing.  Tammy did get to watch the whole thing via Skype.  Thanks Jeff for the play by-play.

It was decided that the best course of action was to head to the emergency room and hopefully get her admitted.  Our ultimate goal was to get her strong enough for the surgery today.  Long story short, her cortisol levels were very low again.  She was dehydrated and had some kind of infection somewhere that was going on.  So IV was started, steroids started, and stronger antibiotic started.  It was amazing, by the hour she started to perk up.  She just kept getting better and better over the course of two days.  The comeback kid had done it again.  She is still weak, but there is no comparison.  She came home Sunday to rest up for the big trip to KC and here we are.

Many of you have followed, played  with, coached, been coached by, taught by or watched Tammy through-out her life.  Even if you have just played cards (Chad Calahan) against Tammy you know that she has a very strong will to compete.  It goes even beyond competing.  Tammy wants to win.  If she has taught or coached you at some point you know the intensity that she possesses.  She has a singular focus to do the things that need to be done to win.  She expects it out of herself, and if you are part of her team, she expects it out of you also.  Tammy is going to beat this one way or another because she doesn’t know how to lose.  She is the comeback kid because she believes in it with a passion.  She will not give up.  If you are a part of her team, she will never give up on you.  Never count her out, because with will and passion all things are possible.

I just met with Dr.  Got both lesions out.  We will know pathology hopefully by Friday.  Thank you for all of the support.  In the hospital Tammy had a few surprise visitors.  a former student and then a friend that came all the way from Seattle.  Thank you both for taking the time to come see her.  We love you all.