I feel i need to post this somewhere and here's as good as any...
My mother has stage III colon cancer
Three months ago:
She has soriatic rheumatoid arthitis and been dealing with a nagging flu/cold that wouldn't go away, so Dr's did various tests; bloodwork & such.
Two months ago:
Find outs she's anameic with an unknown cause. They put her on an iron supplement, but it makes her violently ill and vomitting. they tried a few other things, but nothing was helping.
About a month ago:
The Doc's scheduled her for an endosocpy & colonoscopy just to be safe. The arthtirs doc decided it was all caused by the RA and wanted to cancel the the scopes, but was overuled by the family doc
March 8th:
She has the endoscopy...finds fuck all, has the colonoscopy and they find "something" that appears to be malignant, they biopsy it and several lymph nodes. initial biospies according to surgeon are benign.
March 12:
SURGERY; the resected her bowel, cut out the bad & spliced back the good; sent the whole lot for pathology tests and sampled a bunch of lymph nodes.
March 16th:
Full pathological biosies come back and say STAGE III COLON CANCER. she needs chemo (but a dif kind that doesnt make you puke or make your hair fall out according to one doc)
Trying to stay upbeat I joked: Chemo Lite, More Hair Less Cancer; Mom thought it was funny. Dad and Doc... not so much
Today she has a CT Scan with a special dye to illuminate where it's spread to and the oncologist says that she is a good canidate for a number of programs and trials, but they cant do squat for like a month until shes healed from the surgery....
I am so overwhelmed that i am emotionally numb...
My mother has stage III colon cancer
Three months ago:
She has soriatic rheumatoid arthitis and been dealing with a nagging flu/cold that wouldn't go away, so Dr's did various tests; bloodwork & such.
Two months ago:
Find outs she's anameic with an unknown cause. They put her on an iron supplement, but it makes her violently ill and vomitting. they tried a few other things, but nothing was helping.
About a month ago:
The Doc's scheduled her for an endosocpy & colonoscopy just to be safe. The arthtirs doc decided it was all caused by the RA and wanted to cancel the the scopes, but was overuled by the family doc
March 8th:
She has the endoscopy...finds fuck all, has the colonoscopy and they find "something" that appears to be malignant, they biopsy it and several lymph nodes. initial biospies according to surgeon are benign.
March 12:
SURGERY; the resected her bowel, cut out the bad & spliced back the good; sent the whole lot for pathology tests and sampled a bunch of lymph nodes.
March 16th:
Full pathological biosies come back and say STAGE III COLON CANCER. she needs chemo (but a dif kind that doesnt make you puke or make your hair fall out according to one doc)
Trying to stay upbeat I joked: Chemo Lite, More Hair Less Cancer; Mom thought it was funny. Dad and Doc... not so much
Today she has a CT Scan with a special dye to illuminate where it's spread to and the oncologist says that she is a good canidate for a number of programs and trials, but they cant do squat for like a month until shes healed from the surgery....
I am so overwhelmed that i am emotionally numb...