The Beginning

Wow, I've only been here four months and life is already exciting....and changing rapidly for me. I figured the best way to remember this is to write it all down so that when I'm older, I can look back and know what a miracle God has done.
My mom says I'm the cutest in the world... not sure what all that means, but sounds good. She took me to the doctor because my eye was looking funny. My family even noticed it. On May 16, 2009, mom took me to the ER to get my eye checked. The nice doctors looked me over and decided to send me to a specialist. Dr Ruben, who is a pediatric opthomologist. On May 18th we went to see him. Me, Mom and Nanna. After the doctor looked me over, he sent me in to have them put goopy stuff on my eyes and rub a stick over them. They called it an ultra sound...I called it goop! Then Dr. Ruben told my mom that I had Retinoblastoma. Dr. Ruben sent us to San Francisco to meet Dr. O'Brien on May 19th. Dr. O'Brien gave me sleepy medicine so I don't know much, but Mommy said she looked at my eyes very carefully to see how bad the Retinoblastoma was. They took a cool picture to see my bones, Mommy called it an xray. Then they took another cool picture to see the tissues in my eyes, Mommy called that an MRI. After all that was done they gave mommy all kinds of information for my next appointment to start my chemotherapy. I have to have the medicine once a month for two days.