Re: Sometimes news is good

From: Phyllis (phyllisnilsson_at_buckeye-express.com)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:53:40 -0500

Barb, it truly is good news. I hope your vacation is so lovely that it
puts everything else on the back burner so you can really enjoy it. And
when you get home . . . you can only do what you can do. My heart is
with you.

Barbara Carlson wrote:
> After finding out I have a uterine mass quite suspicious for endometrial
> cancer I was depressed enough.
>
> Then a couple of weeks ago my husband passed a kidney stone. Urologist said
> go for IVP and check things out. Report came back with possible mass on the
> left kidney!! Great!! Go get a CT scan with contrast. Bob said bad as the
> bowel prep is, drinking the contrast material was worse. Made him really
> ill. But he got the scan.
>
> Just got the report back from the urologist--no mass. He still has a little
> "sand" in the kidney, and there is a gallstone, but nothing that needs
> attention. Bob has a serious heart condition, pacemaker, etc. He has
> beaten both colon cancer and prostate cancer, and definitely didn't need
> something new to fight!
>
> I am due for surgery December 1. Prognosis is good. I won't know until I
> wake up whether I just had removal of a uterine polyp and D&C or a total
> hysterectomy, although the odds are for the latter. the OB/GYN Oncologist
> does say the hysterectomy is probable and he can do it laparoscopically, so
> hopefully I will be out quickly. It is definitely early and odds are
> excellent that that will be the end of it.
>
> Meanwhile, Friday we head for the first vacation we have taken together in
> 10 years to Alaska. Weather permitting we will do a fly around Mt.
> McKinley, have a day cruise scheduled, and dogsledding. Three days of
> rather boring convention, but lots of old friends there, too (Arabian Horse
> Association Annual Convention). We are both delegates, and a large part of
> our expenses paid, or we couldn't afford to do it (the vacation part is on
> our tab!). My clients have been understanding, but the week home will be
> hell to try to catch up and do preop clearance all at once. I'm not cooking
> for Thanksgiving!!!! My son and his wife have to work, anyway, and I will
> be playing catch up.
>
> Back to the grind--but I was so relieved about Bob I needed to vent
> somewhere.
>
> Barb C.
>
>

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