Bad news

Well, here we go again. Ryder will probably have to have surgery this coming thursday. I noticed that his right lymph node (under his jaw) was swollen about 2 weeks ago. I thought it was only an infection and so I took him to the Dr. They did a strep test which came back negative and the Dr. seemed concerned. He said it could be a staph infection and put him on antibiotics, he told me that if the gland didn't get smaller after a few days to bring him back. I waited for a week and noticed that his lymph node had gotten bigger and harder and so I took him back to the Dr. The Dr. was really concerned now and put him on stronger antibiotics and made him an appointment with a pediatric surgeon. We saw the surgeon yesterday and he think it's an atypical bacterial infection and he cannot drain it because his node is really hard. He also said it could be tuberculosis or leukemia! yeah , scary. He told me not to worry and that he would run all kinds of tests to make sure it wasn't cancer or TB. So this Monday Ryder will have a TB test, then he will go get a CT scan of his neck, and they will have to put him out for the CT since he is so little. After that we have an appointment with an Infectious Diseases dr. and they will draw some blood. Please pray for my little boy. We are really hoping he just has that bacterial infection and nothing else. So if everything goes well, he will have surgery on thursday to remove the lymph node that's affected and that should be the end of it. This has made me realize how much I love Ryder and how special he is. He makes us laugh so much. We will keep you all posted.