Re: Sometimes news is good

From: Susan Mitchell (readthemessage_at_nobody.com)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:29:41 GMT

Barb, glad for good news on hubby and sending good vibes your way. Have a
good time on vaca, please 

--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
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"Barbara Carlson" <bbcarlson@snappydsl.net> wrote in message
news:JeidnXzszsFtZQ3cRVn-rA@snappydsl.net...
> 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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