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I agree, get a specialist. My coworker's MIL recently went through an uterine cancer scare, and when she went in for pre-op at one hospital a nurse told her to go to another doctor at another hospital who specialized in robotic gyn cancer surgery. Everything went smoothly and she was up and around in a day.
Good thoughts headed your way - keep us posted!
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My mother has spent the week undergoing testing, most of it pre-operative type testing, fortunately. When she finally gets to see a good doctor, she will have some useful data for the doctor. You see, this week was our local school system's spring break. Most all of the good doctors in this area have been off work this week, out of town on family vacations.
So, we really do not know anything new...and she has still not seen the gyn oncologist. The pathetic excuse of a doctor that she is seeing now told her that he would happily give her the referal to the cancer specialist. However, when she took him up on the offer, he immediately changed his tune, telling my mother that request was 'premature' as she does not yet have a cancer diagnosis. Urgh. I know better, and I have carefully explained all this to my mother. My mother assures me that this idiot excuse of a doctor will not be doing any surgery on her.
On the 'sad movie' thread, I added "Wit" to the list. My mother's description of her visits to this idiot remind me of a scene in that movie. In the movie, the lead character is sitting in a medical office, talking to a doctor who is telling her that she has Stage IV Ovarian Cancer (i.e., terminal.) During the conversation, the doctor stops for a phone call or message or something; then he turns back to the patient, and says, "Now, where were we?"
Well, my mother says this fool will be talking to her, or supposedly listening to her, and all the while he will be fiddling around with things on his desk, rummaging through his drawers, and hops up to run down the hall for this or that.
I am holding on for next week.
__________________ Vicki B.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." M.L.K., Jr.
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My SSR: 2005 Aqua Blur #18290 born date:11-19-04 a rare Aqua-Blur six speed
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Hi Vicki, remember that he will have to answer for his attitude, so you and your Mum, keep thse smiles on your faces and keep the spirits up. Next week you will have some answers and you can go from there.Our prayers go with you.
Judy
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I was thinking about you last night Keep your spirits up and your moms as well
Same here.
Your mom sounds like she still knows best. Knowledge is your power, use it. And remember, God is her co-pilot. hang in there and keep smiling
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Vicki, God works in Mysterious Ways!
I haven't been on the site all week. Logged on this morning and started answering pm's, and for some reason I stopped in the middle of the pm's and noticed your thread first. I said all that only to say,
Prayers for your Mum and You. You both could use them.
Seams like Kim & I have spent most of this past year doing what you're doing now. We know how you must feel. Hope the doctors finally get it together.
Keep praying, please. And if you need any evidence that prayer works then you are about to get it.
We got an update today. So far, none of the test results indicate that there is definitely any cancer. Now, it is still possible there is cancer lurking in there, so we are not out of the woods yet, but... despite the fact that 70-80 percent of uterine masses in women my mother's age are cancer, the biopsy last week showed no evidence of malignancy. And her kidneys, which appeared to contain masses and blockages on the scan taken at the ER, were shown to be clear on the testing done late last week.
My mother also has an appointment with the oncologist on Wednesday. ( It is good that all the good doctors are back in town after spring break!) Now she can get away from the idiot she was seeing last week. She will probably face more tests, and most likely an exploratory surgery in the near future.
Please keep praying!
__________________ Vicki B.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." M.L.K., Jr.
My SSR: Aqua Blur '05,#18006, Diablo Preditor, K&N, Spoiler,
That's great news, but the "good words" are still coming from here... keep us in the loop. We'll keep up our work, tell Mum that the crew is in her corner!!!
Dale
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I wanted to post this news last night, but could not get onto the internet...it seems some fool shot a server or something.
Anyway, my mother had the appointment with the oncologist. He reviewed the uterine biopsy information and said that he felt confident the negative results were reliable; the sample sizes and types seemed more than adequate. So, he believes there is no cancer there.
Furthermore, he reviewed the imaging from the kidney scan, and said the mass/swelling/tumor/whatever it was showing on the abdominal scan at the ER on April 5th is now only 1/3 the size it was that Saturday!!!
He believes that it might be possible that she had some type of infection, well, infected mass. One problem with that diagnosis, though, is that she has no fevers or other signs of infection. He is continueing with testing in order to be certain that we are not dealing with something wicked and evil growing somewhere else in her abdomen. Her next steps are an MRI and further investigation with a urinary tract specialist. We should know more in about two weeks.
__________________ Vicki B.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." M.L.K., Jr.
Keeping you and your mom on my prayer list 
SANDY
Keep your spirits up and your moms as well
we are blessed
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