Tim began experience nerve pain in his face in August of 2008. This was not unusual because Tim suffered from shingles in October 2007. The shingles affected his eye and resulted in a cornea transplant in June 2008. So tingling facial nerves are a part of his daily life. But this new pain was not controlled by his medications.
We visited a neurologist in September. The neurologist ordered a brain MRI, a cervical spine MRI, a glucose tolerance test and a lumbar puncture (spinal tap). The first three tests all came back negative, which just left the lumbar puncture. Tim had the lumbar puncture on October 29. On October 30, Tim got a phone call from his oncologist telling us that leukemia cells had been found in the spinal fluid. And just like that, we were back in leukemia land.
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