MeadowRidge Farm
Well-Known Member
Would everyone PLEASE keep Mike and Nancy of Woodstock North in your prayers. I just received this from Nancy today. She is very busy and is not able to do alot of emailing at the time. Corinne I am, once again sorry for the mass emailing, just too busy to write to
everyone, so forgive me. but the best I can do.
As alot of you know MIke has been ill for quite some time now, VERY
TIRED and sleeping all the time and barely able to get through his job
at night. Doctors have been checking him for a potetial heart problem
and he has an enlarged aorta, THANKFULLY they ran another CAT SCAN on
the chest and heart, and in so doing discovered the Mike has two
nodules on his left lung that are VERY SUGGESTIVE of Malignancy.and
doctor said he could almost confirm that it is magnignant so yes we are
talking LUNG CANCER here. ( WAY TOO LATE to say darn CIGARETTES here, as
he has been a smoker for 30 years) We are now waiting for the insurance
company to okay a PET SCAN, which is a full body scan to see if the
cancer has spread anywhere else, but so far the insurance company has
turned us down on it and the doctor has called them to see why they
would not okay it, the test costs $4,000. Mike will need SURGERY
immediately if not sooner and will be in the hospital for at least a
week, and will be at least a 6 week recovery time as he will have to be
cut wide open and have chest tubes in to keep his lung from collapsing,
The GOOD NEWS is, IF there is ANY good news in this, is that the nodules
are very small and think they will be able to remove them with good
results if no more are found, He of course will have to quit his job, he
is going to try and work right up until the surgery is scheduled as
needless to say this will put a HUGE financial burden on us, but he will
no longer be able to work. How he has struggled through his job this
long is beyond me, and just shows you the GUTS this wonderful man has
to have continued. Looking back Mike has been ill for over 3 years, but
guess i was sooo focused on taking care of my Mom and keeping her alive,
that I wasn't focusing enough on Mike, altho I could tell how he was
pushing himself to keep the work around here done. Needless to say, NOW
is the time to focus on Mike. This surgery of course will be coming
right at foaling time, and Mike has always helped me with that, I am NOT
MUCH GOOD without MIke, he is the heart and soul of WOODSTOCK NORTH, and
is the official VET here, so it will be rough without him.
Will keep you updated when I can, but in the meantime ask that you once
again, keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Too tell you that I am
WORRIED SICK is an UNDERSTATMENT. Thanks, as always for listening and
for your love and support. Nancy and Mike Woodstock North
everyone, so forgive me. but the best I can do.
As alot of you know MIke has been ill for quite some time now, VERY
TIRED and sleeping all the time and barely able to get through his job
at night. Doctors have been checking him for a potetial heart problem
and he has an enlarged aorta, THANKFULLY they ran another CAT SCAN on
the chest and heart, and in so doing discovered the Mike has two
nodules on his left lung that are VERY SUGGESTIVE of Malignancy.and
doctor said he could almost confirm that it is magnignant so yes we are
talking LUNG CANCER here. ( WAY TOO LATE to say darn CIGARETTES here, as
he has been a smoker for 30 years) We are now waiting for the insurance
company to okay a PET SCAN, which is a full body scan to see if the
cancer has spread anywhere else, but so far the insurance company has
turned us down on it and the doctor has called them to see why they
would not okay it, the test costs $4,000. Mike will need SURGERY
immediately if not sooner and will be in the hospital for at least a
week, and will be at least a 6 week recovery time as he will have to be
cut wide open and have chest tubes in to keep his lung from collapsing,
The GOOD NEWS is, IF there is ANY good news in this, is that the nodules
are very small and think they will be able to remove them with good
results if no more are found, He of course will have to quit his job, he
is going to try and work right up until the surgery is scheduled as
needless to say this will put a HUGE financial burden on us, but he will
no longer be able to work. How he has struggled through his job this
long is beyond me, and just shows you the GUTS this wonderful man has
to have continued. Looking back Mike has been ill for over 3 years, but
guess i was sooo focused on taking care of my Mom and keeping her alive,
that I wasn't focusing enough on Mike, altho I could tell how he was
pushing himself to keep the work around here done. Needless to say, NOW
is the time to focus on Mike. This surgery of course will be coming
right at foaling time, and Mike has always helped me with that, I am NOT
MUCH GOOD without MIke, he is the heart and soul of WOODSTOCK NORTH, and
is the official VET here, so it will be rough without him.
Will keep you updated when I can, but in the meantime ask that you once
again, keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Too tell you that I am
WORRIED SICK is an UNDERSTATMENT. Thanks, as always for listening and
for your love and support. Nancy and Mike Woodstock North
