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Everything is on track!

armond — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:24:49 GMT

Yes, it's couple of months I've not posted anything here. But fortunately everything has been on track, and my mother has been mostly recovered from the side effects of chemotherapy medicines. During these months, some of you dear readers had asked about my mother's health and were worries about her. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! You give power to my mother. Power to fight to get her life back, that she's already WON!

Last time when she did the routine once-every-three-month checkups, her chemotherapist confirmed once more that there is nothing to worry about and everything is just fine! But my mother should just be under strict control and does the checkups for 4 to 7 further years. As usual, we also asked my mother's surgeon, who has done the mastectomy, to interpret the checkup results (specially the CT-Scan). He also confirmed that everything seems to be fine.

You know, it's very nice to see my mother back to her normal life and feeling well. Her hair has quite grown and she's satisfied. And I'm so happy about the situation. God listens to all our prayers and answers them! He gave my mother back to us and I'm very thankful. She is reborn and has a new life now. A very nice gift I will never forget...

Checking blood analysis and CT-Scan results with Oncologist

armond — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:18:15 GMT

It turned out to be another good day for my mother, fighting and defeating her cancer.

It was after noon when my sister called me to say that she and my mother have just visited the oncologist, and checked the recent blood analysis and CT-Scan result with him. Everything is normal and there is no danger and nothing to worry about. The oncologist has told them to revisit him 3 months later...

Blood Analysis result – Tested Tumor Markers are all within their normal ranges

armond — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:33:12 GMT

Early at this morning, my father went to take my mom's blood analysis results. Talking to him later today, he stated that it seems that everything is fine! Later when he returned back to home, I called to double check the result with my sister. She also stated that everything seemed to be in normal range, and there are no worries at all.

Although tumor markers can not be relied at all cases and for everyone, but they're still a strong evidence of any possible cancerous activities in body. After the initial shock of ultrasonography result, it seems that more and more of good news are coming :-)

Checking the CT-Scan result with Surgeon

armond — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:08:12 GMT

Well, today my sister managed to setup an appointment with my mother's surgeon to double check the ultrasonography and CT-Scan results with him.

Fortunately the surgeon has repeated the same! There is no danger to worry, which we’re already extremely happy about. So far so good!

Liver CT-Scan result – Nothing to worry about

armond — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:18:02 GMT

We've already had a terrible night, thinking about my mother's CT-Scan result. And we still had to wait for one more day which made it so painful. Finally it was evening when my sister called the laboratory to see if the result could be ready since this was an emergency case. Fortunately they'd told her that we could go to take it in a few hours. Well, much better than waiting for another 24 hours! But I had a lot of stress when my sister informed me about.

My wife suggested that I and she to go to take the result, and let my mother to stay at home since she was not needed to be present there. In an hour, we were there and the result was in our hands! But the guys there refused to comment any further, so once again we had to rely on our own knowledge about medical technical things to read the written result. The worst and most stressful moment in the whole recent week... I read it from top to bottom. Nothing doubtful was there, but two very technical expressions I've not heard so far. I checked my mobile, and fortunately they seemed to be all fine!

But I couldn't rely much on my own knowledge. Immediately I called my mother's oncologist, and he was kind enough to help me on phone to see what the exact result was. He assured me that there was no danger, and what ultrasonography showed was not tumor or any cancer related thing. Maybe a natural mass or fat used to be there for whole my mother's life but nobody has ever seen it!

Thanks God! I and my wife got so happy about the good news, and couldn't resist informing my mother any later. She was going to fly when she heard there was no danger :-)

Once again, all our prayers were answered...

Repeating the ultrasonography, and doing Spiral CT-Scan on Liver

armond — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:00:56 GMT

It was early at the morning when my mother called me. She was asking me to join them (she and my father) at their home to directly go to there hospital where both my mother's surgeon and oncologist work there. She told me that there would be higher possibility to meet both of them there.

In a couple of minutes I was there, seeing my mother very worried and sad. She told me that she's not slept the whole night having nightmare, and she can't wait more. Again I assured her that everything would be just fine, and in a couple of minutes we headed for hospital.

In half an hour we were at hospital and fortunately the oncologist was there, and we immediately arranged an appointment with him. After checking the results, he suggested us to repeat the ultrasonography right at the hospital to make sure of the result before going ahead. He described his colleague (the other doctor doing the ultrasonography) my mother's situation and asked him to be very precise on this.

In a couple of minutes we had the result which confirmed yesterday's ultrasonography. And like previous times, he couldn't tell us what exact that hypo-echoic area might be. He told me that Ultrasonography method can not be 100% sure about hypo-echoic areas. It needed to be confirmed with a Spiral CT-Scan of liver, and he introduced us to a certified hospital for imaging purposes. I guess it was the same hospital I took my mother's mastectomy samples for hormone analysis.

At the imaging center, after telling them about my mother's background, showing them the analysis results and doctor's note mentioning the emergency case, they told us to be there at after noon. So we returned back a couple of hours later, and they took whatever images needed. But we had to wait two days to get the result! That was the worst part! Again another 48 hours of waiting...

Abdomen ultrasonography and X-Ray Chest Photo – There are two hypo-echoic areas on liver

armond — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:23:34 GMT

This afternoon, my mother had gone for abdomen, breast and under-arm lymph nodes ultrasonography and X-Ray chest photo. And it was a few hours ago when she called me to say that she's back to home with the results, and asked me to go there to see if everything is okay.

I went there, while being pretty sure that there shouldn't be anything. Fortunately her lungs showed clear at x-ray photo (written result from lab). But there were two hypo-echoic areas/masses, one more than previous time, on her liver, which made me surprised and suspicious. One of them was on right lobe and another on left lobe of liver. My mother has already had two abdomen ultrasonographies but only one had shown (which was not dangerous) so far, to my surprise!

I got somehow worried but didn't allow my mother to know, since she's got so sensitive to this damn disease. I had to talk to the doctor. I called our oncologist and read the written result for him. He asked me to visit him as soon as possible to arrange a CT-Scan for precise results.

This time, my mother asked what was going on. And I had to explain the situation for her. She was very worried of reoccurrence of her cancer, and immediately thought that she might repeat her chemotherapy. She hates the chemotherapy period, both for feeling bad (because of the medicines) and for losing her whole hairs. I can fully understand her concern. You know it's just a few months she's got her hairs back (like 2cm) along with her eye lashes, and is afraid to lose them again. Immediately she got uncertain about the future and cried a bit :-( It's nothing to worse than seeing your lovely one is feeling pain and you can't do much...

I just assured her that she was exaggerating everything, and it was nothing that important to worry about. We should just track it to make sure everything is normal. That's all! I told her that her blood analysis hasn't shown anything so far, so there was high possibility that the new hypo-echoic area was not dangerous at all (like the first one). After a bit of talking to her, she was convinced to not worry that much. And that we will consult with her surgeon (which did the mastectomy) and will double check the results with him as well.

For tomorrow, the oncologist won't be at his clinic, so I guess we'll first check these with my mother's surgeon. The surgeon will be available for evening. Guys just pray for my mother, please, please...

Blood Analysis

armond — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:52:02 GMT

Early this morning, my father took my mom for blood analysis. CA 15-3 antigen, CA 19-9 antigen and CEA are the tumor markers along with blood sugar, cholesterol, triglyceride and some other factors which will be checked on this analysis. The result will be ready on May 18th.

Visiting Oncologist for another Checkup

armond — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:12:02 GMT

Today was the time for another checkup to make sure my mother does not have any signs of cancer. My sister arranged an appointment with the oncologist to take my mom to visit him.

Like always, my mother should do abdomen and under-arm lymph nodes ultrasonography, take x-ray photo of chest and do blood analysis. We should do these all, collect the results and bring them back to oncologist, this was what he asked us.

Visiting Oncologist for Checkup result – Everything is normal

armond — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:16:25 GMT

I'm finally feeling good today! I took my mother to visit oncologist, right this evening. And after checking the results from abdomen and chest ultrasonography, and blood analysis, he assured us that there is really nothing to worry about. And the cystic area dimension has not been changed (well, actually just one or two millimeter, and that's simply because of ultrasonography device's precision) since 3 months ago when we first noticed it. This could be a good sign, that it's neither tumor nor growing!

I thank Lord for healing my lovely mother, and for keeping her healthy. As well, I would like to thank all of you, blog visitors, and to thank everyone who has supported us in any way… Hope this support will go on!

Blood Analysis result

armond — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:32:29 GMT

Today morning my father went to get my mom's blood analysis result, from laboratory. And a couple of hours later I was there at home to check it. Fortunately all cancer-specific factors were in their range, as well as blood sugar and cholesterol. Everything looked quite normal, but we still should visit oncologist to confirm this. I guess the visit will be tomorrow and my sister will arrange it.

Blood Analysis for Cancer – Hypo-echoic mass is NOT dangerous

armond — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:18:31 GMT

Today morning we went for blood analysis (checking cancer factors), and because of the cancer-related checkups, which are usually more complicated, the result will be ready in two weeks.

While I was still thinking about yesterday's ultrasonography result, I insisted my mother to visit her surgeon who did the mastectomy. After all, ultrasonography and CT-Scan results are more in their play ground rather than an oncologist. That was why we headed to visit the surgeon at the evening. Fortunately he assured us that there is nothing to worry about and everything looks normal, since the cyst dimension had not changed. He told us that it may be a normal cyst not related to cancer at all.

Thanks God! I feel better, now that a second doctor has confirmed this. Even my mother feels much better since she really believes this doctor. Hope that oncologist will say the same (like previous time), when we take the blood analysis result along with these to visit him.

Abdomen and Chest Ultrasonography – Hypo-echoic mass still exists

armond — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:08:58 GMT

Today my sister had taken my mother to visit oncologist for periodic [cancer] checkup. As usual he'd sent them for abdomen and chest ultrasonography as well as blood analysis.

Blood analysis will be done tomorrow, but ultrasonography has already been done. It seems that last time's result was not that wrong and there is really a cystic area in my mother's abdomen (hypo-echoic ovoid mass lesion in RLL anterior to CBD, according to the lab's written result). Of course it may be just a normal not-dangerous cyst exist in many people. We should wait for the final word from oncologist.

I just keep praying...

Blood Cholesterol below maximum limit

armond — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:38 GMT

Today was another good day after we heard about my mother being free of cancer. At the morning, I went to take the blood analysis result from laboratory. Reading the result, I found out that my mother’s blood cholesterol has been dropped below the maximum limit which was quite good :-) I called my mother immediately and told her about the result, since she was a bit worried.

Now my only concern is the cystic area once shown at abdomen Ultrasonography, although CT-Scan didn't show anything.

Blood Sugar & Cholesterol Analysis

armond — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:47:38 GMT

It was early at the morning when I took my mother to laboratory for blood analysis.

The guy there (at lab) had hard time finding the right vessel to take blood from my mother. Because of chemotherapy drugs, many of the blood vessels of my mother's right hand (on which the drugs have been injected) have been ruined. On the other hand, doctors have forbidden taking blood from left hand on which surgery has been done (mastectomy). But he finally managed to do the job, and they told us to come for the result in a week.

Visiting Oncologist

armond — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:25:53 GMT

From the last blood analysis result, my mother's blood cholesterol was high so the oncologist prescribed a medicine for lowering it. Today we went to visit him to send my mother for another blood analysis to check the effect of the anti-cholesterol medicine as well as checking up the sugar.

Tomorrow will be the time to go to laboratory...

My Mother is Cancer-Free Now! :-)

armond — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:08:28 GMT

After so long stressful days, it was such a brilliant day today!

At the morning, while I was getting ready to go take the blood analysis result of my mother, she called me on phone and told me that my father has already done so! She was asking if I could go there to see what the result is since they had no idea. I got ready in a minute and ran there.

In the next few minutes I was queried the medical terms, in analysis result, on the net trying to understand it. Fortunately there were not any bad signs from cancer, but the level of CA 15-3 tumor marker (tumor markers are antigens produced by tumors, and their amounts are very low in normal people). CA 15-3 level was 24 for my mother while the highest possible for normal people is 25 according to what analysis result says. A bit worried I was, but didn't let my mother know about it.

A couple of minutes later I called the oncologist and read him the whole result. He assured me that everything is just normal. He told me that people with tumor in their body would likely have 200 or even higher units of CA 15-3. It seems that even levels of 30-40 are considered normal! While I was quite happy what I was hearing, I asked him to arrange a time for us that we take the recent analysis results all together. I was set for this evening.

A couple of hours later I took my mother to oncologist's clinic and we heard the happiest news we'd heard over the past couple of months... YES, my mother was CANCER-FREE according to the test results! CANCER-FREE... CANCER-FREE... Finally the good days are here, and my mother is extremely happy about the situation :-) She's come a long way from the day we found out about her cancer till today. A long way which has been full of stress for her. But she's been powerful enough to defeat this damn disease with the help of Lord.

And how nice! It's Christmas evening, December 24, 2008... A beautiful day many Christians celebrate. Although, we Armenians are celebrating Christmas on 6th of January but I still love December 24 as well.

Thanks a lot Lord, for all these goodness, for hearing my mom, and for healing her. May all the ill people be healed and get pretty healthy again. Amen!

For the website visitors: THANK YOU VERY MUCH GUYS. Thank you all for your continuous supports, for your prayers and good wishes from all over the world. You've played a great role in keeping my mother's moral high. THANK YOU! :-)

CT-Scan Result, seems there is nothing to worry about

armond — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:25:43 GMT

It was around noon when I went to take the abdominal CT-Scan result of my mother. As soon as I got it, I dared to open the result letter... Everything seemed normal! No sign of any tumor or such. As soon as I got to my mother's home to show her the result, I called her oncologist to be sure. I read the result for him and he confirmed that everything is just good and normal! Hoorayyyy! I'm pretty happy about this. It seems that we're getting close to good days again :-)

But now we should wait for blood analysis result as well, to take all these results to oncologist to hear his final word about them! There is still one full week to get the other result but I'm pretty confident that there shouldn't be anything. Let's pray...

CT-Scan day

armond — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:53:01 GMT

It was the day for abdominal CT-Scan (in Spiral form), to make sure that my mother doesn't have any tumor or such in RLL part of her abdomen. The ultrasonography result had shown something not common there, but the oncologist assured us that it's nothing to worry about.

Today, we were there on time, and the guy asked us to buy the medicines that were going to be injected or to be taken by my mother. Then he mixed some of them into a jug full of fruit juice, and told my mother to drink two glasses of it every ten minutes. It took around one hour and half and she was ready. They took her in, did the necessary injections and told me to stay out.

After five minutes, they were done and let her come out. Everything was just fine but her vein where she'd had the injections. I guess I've already told this in my previous posts, that because of injecting lots of strong anti-cancer drugs into my mother's right hand (she's done the mastectomy on her left side) many of her veins have been badly injured. Actually I can not look at them :-(

Anyways, the result will be ready for tomorrow but I couldn't stop myself from talking to the doctor there. Fortunately he told me that he didn't notice any tumor or so, but he had to analyze the taken photos accurately to be pretty sure. I told my mother about what the doctor said, to decrease her stress, while praying for the good...

Checking Ultrasonography result with Oncologist

armond — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:12:33 GMT

Well, I couldn't finally resist not to check the ultrasonography result with my mother's oncologist. It was hard to wait till December 24 to get the blood analysis result to take them all together!

Anyways, I called the oncologist and set a time with him, went to hospital and gave him the ultrasonography documents and x-ray photo of chest. He checked them accurately specially the hypo-echoic area in ultrasonography result, and told me, by a smile, that it's nothing to worry about. He said that he was sure by over %90-95. But he recommended a CT-Scan of my mother's abdomen, to reach into %100 assurance. And it will be for tomorrow.

Let's hope everything will go fine, and my stress will fade away soon.