Lumps and bumps

Last month, Jaxton woke up complaining that his neck hurt.  I figured he had just slept wrong (you know, body on the bed, head off to the size) so I gave him a heat pad and went on with our day.  We went to story time at the library and Jaxt was being especially whiny, so I had him sit on my lap.  He was still complaining that his neck was bothering him and when I looked... there was a huge bump on the side.  I wasn't sure what to do and Kyle was in class.  I thought maybe he just bumped it so we went on with our day.  During dinner he started crying, so we ran to Instacare.  The Dr did a quick exam and told us it just felt like a swollen lymph node and that if it didn't change in 2 weeks we needed to take him to his pediatrician.  2 weeks passed and there was no change so we took him in.  She came in and did an exam and wanted to run some blood tests, one included was a leukemia test (that was too much for me... especially after my mom's diagnoses this year).  Nothing seemed too out of the ordinary so she referred us to an ENT.  We saw Dr. Pearson just a few days later.  He came in, talked to us for a few minutes and felt around Jaxton's neck.  He didn't say much and then said "I think this needs to come out".  He went back to feeling the lump and telling us some of the things that it COULD be.  He wanted to have an ultrasound done to see if it was a cyst and then set up surgery for 2 weeks later.
The next night, Jaxt was up all night screaming!  It was awful.  We took him into the ER the next morning and Jaxt had an ear infection.  They put him on antibiotics for 10 days and sent us home.
We went in for the ultrasound the next Monday.  Kyle had class so I went with Jaxton alone.  The ultrasound tech didn't say much and Dr. Pearson called us a few hours later and said that he didn't see any cysts and wanted to proceed with surgery.
We went into to the hospital at 8:15 am on April 24th.  A huge thanks to Krissy Harrison for taking Paisley!  It was just one less thing I had to worry about.  We went right back and the nurses started getting us prepped.  Dr. Pearson came in and felt his neck again.  Our hope was that because Jaxt was on antibiotics, the lump would have gone down and we wouldn't have to proceed.  Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.  They came in and got Jaxt at 9:30 and he was back in the room by 10:30.  They said he did awesome, and they sent the "lump" to the lab for a full biopsy.  We were released by 11:30 since Jaxt was awake and alert and drank his juice and ate his Popsicle.  He was back to running around, jumping and being his normal fun self within a few hours.
  Waiting for the results sucks!  I try to not think about it... but it creeps up on me occasionally.  Hopefully we will hear something today or tomorrow.   We have had a few issues managing pain the past 2 days, but other than that it seems to be doing well.  I can't wait to have this behind us.

I love this little dude so hard core!  I hope and pray that it is nothing and this will be the end of it!  We have felt the love and prayers that have been said on our behalf.  No matter what the outcome, we have been truly blessed and we can get through anything together (although I'm hoping that we don't have to!)