Dear family and friends,

There really is no easy way to write this…

The good news- Rebecca Erin Lamb is going to be fine, eventually.
The bad news, she has been diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer called lymphoma. At this point, we are waiting for pathology to tell us the specific kind of lymphoma so they can design the best possible treatment. Although we are exploring other options, in all likelihood the treatment will involve several months of radiation and chemotherapy. It is unlikely we will have any more specific information before this weekend Feb 8/9)

The history AKA….How we discovered it
In November, Rebecca/Erin (R/E) had a cough. We went to the doctor who said, “Everyone has it, it is probably just a virus. Come back if it doesn’t go away.” When it didn’t go away and so we went back in December. At that time, it looked like R/E had a sinus infection so the doctor gave her 10 days of antibiotics. The cough was still present at the end of the series so we went back again …this was Jan. 25. This time I asked the doc to do a chest x-ray. She said, “typically we don’t see much in a chest x-ray but I’ll be glad to do it.” An hour later, when we met again with the x-ray, she said. “Good Call on the x-ray…we wouldn’t have expected to see this.” There was a spot on the x-ray near where some lymph node is located. We left with more high powered antibiotics, steroids, a date on Friday for lots of blood work and an appointment for a CT scan the following Monday. Friday’s blood work came back clean, Monday’s CT scan showed and enlarged thymus which turns out to be Dr. speak for a tumor in/around the thymus.