"Because I said so"

I don't care who you are there has been a time in your life where someones answer to you on WHY was "Because I said so".  It was rarely a good enough explanation BUT because of the authority of that person (usually parental) you have no choice but just to do what they said.   You don't really like it but hopefully you are because ultimately trust the person who said those words.

Today was one of the hardest "because I said so's" that I have ever uttered in my life.  It was done with a heavy heart but none the less it was what I thought was best.   I turned out to be partially right and partially wrong. 

The doctors had different views when they talked to me.  It was partly no one was right and no one was wrong but ultimately it was up to me to decide WHAT was needed to be done.   The decision was on rather they would aspirate/biopsy "The Culprit".   The ultimate decision was yes.

The same surgeon that did the original biopsy  did the procedure bedside today.  He is such a kind hearted doctor.  He came in, sat down and talked with us about the procedure.  Before leaving he gave both Kagan and I a hug.  I love doctors like this that know the value of hug is almost as good as anything medically that they can do.

Even though Kagan really likes the doctor he was not really wanting to do the procedure.  He was willing to take a more "wait and see"approach and I wanted to take a more active approach to rule out anything bad.  He trusted me to let us go ahead but it was really under the "because I said so" rule more than his decision.   I HATED this. 

I know Kagan trust me and he is so sweet about it in many ways however I know the teenager in him wants to do it his way.

The IV team came and looked at the PICC.  The TPA treatment worked and there was nothing else that needed to be done with the blood clot.  We will watch over the next few days and the dressing and so forth will be changed on Wednesday of next week.

Kagan is now sleeping from the morphine that they gave him and his chemo started at 5pm this evening.  Once this bag of chemo is done then we get to call this hospital stays procedures done. 

Round 3 caused Kagan to get hit with a few left hooks but ultimately Kagan was the winner of this round.