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Friday Jan 23, 2009 - 08:25:53PM

Visiting Oncologist

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...

Wednesday Dec 24, 2008 - 09:08:28PM

My Mother is Cancer-Free Now! :-)

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! :-)

Tuesday Dec 16, 2008 - 07:25:43PM

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

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...

Monday Dec 15, 2008 - 10:53:01PM

CT-Scan day

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...

Sunday Dec 14, 2008 - 06:12:33PM

Checking Ultrasonography result with Oncologist

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.

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