2nd Opinion in the Works

Yesterday we spent the day at a HopeKids event — a brain tumor family picnic.  It was awesome.  They had a human-sized hampster ball for the kids to run in, a video game van, booger wars, etc.  Jude even got to play football with Adam Weber, one of the quarterbacks for the Denver Broncos.  I think Adam was pretty surprised that Jude had brain surgery 2-1/2 weeks ago.  Jude told me something like, “It’s kind of good that I got my head owie cuz’ we got HopeKids.”  I especially enjoyed talking to some other moms of brain cancer kids at the picnic.  One of them encouraged me to get a formal 2nd opinion on Jude’s treatment.  I have done a lot of scrambling and now have an appointment set up at Mayo Clinic on Friday.  That will be just in time for us to decide whether we should pack for Indiana.  I know this is totally dumb, but I was hesitant to seek a formal 2nd opinion since I thought our oncologist is very competent and I didn’t want to offend her.  But, given the stakes, I feel good about this approach.  I just will have to spend my day harassing Children’s to ensure they get all the records/tissue samples sent by the end of today by overnight mail to Mayo.  I don’t want anything to go wrong here since Mayo went out of their way to squeeze us in on Friday.