Monday, February 2
It's (almost) all over but the shouting...
Today was The_Rose's colonoscopy. I went to bed after midnight, The_Rose climbs in around 3AM.
The phone rings at 9:30AM, it's the liver surgeon's secretary telling The_Rose that she has been scheduled for an 11:30AM appointment Tuesday to discuss her test results (the MRI and today's colonoscopy) and to schedule her surgery. I'm wondering how the hell we got to surgery so damn fast, but I was still asleep. I get up after 10:00AM, thinking about grabbing something to eat before The_Rose get's up, puttering on the computer. The phone rings at 10:30AM, telling me that I need to have her there at the hospital at 1:00PM. We are 1.5 hours away from the hospital, and neither one of us is ready to get into the car yet... I tell her that we'll be there as soon as we can. I roust The_Rose, and we get prepared. We decide to take an overnight bag with us, just in case.
We get there just after 1:00PM, and get all the paperwork taken care of. I'm even allowed in the room as they get The_Rose prepped for the procedure, and in discussing what lead to where we were at, the MRI was brought up, and the doctor's assistant brought up the results of the MRI, and found out that the spot on her liver was an adenoma, not cancer.
This was a big relief to The_Rose, as she had gone on the Internet and overloaded herself with information. She had found that secondary cancer in the liver (of which she was just about sure that had to be the problem) was caused by fourth stage colon cancer, of which there is only a 5% survival rate. She went into the procedure a lot less worried about the outcome. She came out of the procedure with a clean bill of health. We even have the results, complete with two pictures. One of where her appendix connects to the colon (perfectly fine), and another of a pill that she had taken this morning that had not dissolved in her stomache.
So today was a pretty good day. Tomorrow, we get to find out more of what is going on. It does appear that they really like to get these out of the liver, as they can rupture or turn malignant. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 2/02/2004 11:21:00 PM
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