Lana’s Master Key Experience Week 1

Wow I have to say that when I was chosen for one of the Master Key Experience Scholarships life looked and felt very different indeed. It was such an excitement to have lesson 1 coming and I was like a school girl in high school on my 1st day, ready to begin with my pens and coloured pencils along with my folders of printed out materials. I need to just change topic for a second to bring you in on a very difficult journey I face now as a mum, while studying at the same time,

During this time of applying and waiting for approval my teenage son who is 13 was having some medical tests done for ongoing headaches and a few other troubling learning difficulties. He had an MRI done on his brain and neck the week before and with an urgent call into our Doctor’s the following day I took my parents and my husband (his step dad) in for support as I just knew in my heart that something was seriously wrong on those images.

I will not go too deep into the emotions ( I may save that for another time) as you can imagine it was a very difficult moment but the radiologist had found something worrying that needed discussion and further medical testing from Specialistsin that field.  His images showed a brain tumour in his Pituitary Gland that they suspected was BENIGN! I can not express the fright, fear and shock that my husband, my mum and myself experienced when the Doctor uttered these words. No parent should ever go through these traumatic things but the positive I kept telling myself was that it did not appear to be CANCER!! NOT the big C, Thank you God!!

I just could not believe it  even so and it was a very emotional few days while I gathered myself together and started dealing with the diagnosis. There were Specialist referrals to make and research to be done and a lot of processing of information. It was advised not to say anything to my son as yet until we saw the Neurosurgeon.

So  back to MKE Week 1 when this began I had known about my sons health condition for a week by then and I knew that it was in my best interest to throw myself into being busy and carrying on as I had planned for this amazing life changing course. I dragged myself out of bed in the freezing cold here at 6am on a Monday morning, also in the school holidays as they just began. Luckily I could set my laptop speakers to low not to disturb the rest of the household. So I sat listening intently for the 2 hours and I loved the Webinar and had put together all my folders and printed off the Week 1 workbook and was looking forward to applying all the things I learnt that morning for Week 1!!

I had already gathered strength from this lesson and it really set me up for my week of the unknown and helped me focus and just try to set my mindset to only the positive, not let the fear into my Subconscious! (Subby)

Despite all the emotions and worry I was experiencing about my son I was determined to start strong and give MKE a good go and follow the activities……….

Thanks for listening and I look forward to sharing more next week.

Blessings Lana!