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Sunday May 10, 2009 - 10:00:56PM

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

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...

Saturday May 09, 2009 - 11:23:34PM

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

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...

Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 10:52:02PM

Blood Analysis

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.

Monday May 04, 2009 - 08:12:02PM

Visiting Oncologist for another Checkup

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.

Monday Mar 09, 2009 - 09:16:25PM

Visiting Oncologist for Checkup result – Everything is normal

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!

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