dazzledbylight
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SO my sis call me 2 weeks ago and asks if if I could meet her at such & such time on such & such day could I?
I said yes...thinking g it was going to be a nice surprise (for particular reasons).
THEN she tells me the night BEFORE she's got something she's has to to tell me; we're going to a restaurant, and her Nurse Friend will be along to explain things to me.
The LAST TIME that happened it was May 09 for our mutual (hers' first) longtime friend who had a pretty bad cancer (and who died 5 months a later).
SO I was left with.... "is it her( sis) or our dad" for the next ?18 hrs.
So while it's bad news -relatively speaking it'snot BAAAAAAD news.
She has thyroid cancer.
WHich has an almost 100% rate of cure/recovery.....:relief:
(still, it's cancer
.. which was much more of a death sentence when I/we was growing up).
They found out by accident when she had chest pains over the summer ( which I THOT were severe stress from helping to be with our friend and her friend's partner ...
She was OK Cardio-vascular-wise BUT-
... the chest X-Ray showing a shadow up at the very top middle ( neck/thyroid area)
SO they watched it for a few months and then had a sonogram which showed it got bigger; plus what ever else they did to confirm it was cancer.
ANYWAY she's gong to have the operation to remover her thyroid (and get s dose of radioactive Iodine ? 2 -3 weeks later) ... and be out of work ? a few weeks.......
.....THIS approaching Monday 1-25-10.
She'll be in over night, and go stay at her friends' (the nurse) apt for 2 days, then s it home for her.
I'll be visiting and doing grocery shopping for her. And if she feels better with someone in the house during the day etc as she recovers I'll go over there for that as well ( like she just sleeps most of the first 2 days home etc.)
It's a very good hospital and while she doesn't like her Endocrinologist she loves her surgeon (who haas done about 2,000 of these operations)!
Both of us HAD TO get out of our minds' that this was NOT our friend's situation. I worry more like that... but SHE saw her friend to practically the very end ( and it was quite visually upsetting).
The biggest thing as a side effect she's worried about is permanent or long-term hoarseness --- she does a lot of talking as part of her job!
SO prayers/ good vibes/pagan dances are alllllll welcomed her way!
***THANKS*** in advance.
I said yes...thinking g it was going to be a nice surprise (for particular reasons).
THEN she tells me the night BEFORE she's got something she's has to to tell me; we're going to a restaurant, and her Nurse Friend will be along to explain things to me.
The LAST TIME that happened it was May 09 for our mutual (hers' first) longtime friend who had a pretty bad cancer (and who died 5 months a later).
SO I was left with.... "is it her( sis) or our dad" for the next ?18 hrs.
So while it's bad news -relatively speaking it'snot BAAAAAAD news.
She has thyroid cancer.
WHich has an almost 100% rate of cure/recovery.....:relief:
(still, it's cancer
.. which was much more of a death sentence when I/we was growing up).They found out by accident when she had chest pains over the summer ( which I THOT were severe stress from helping to be with our friend and her friend's partner ...
She was OK Cardio-vascular-wise BUT-
... the chest X-Ray showing a shadow up at the very top middle ( neck/thyroid area)
SO they watched it for a few months and then had a sonogram which showed it got bigger; plus what ever else they did to confirm it was cancer.
ANYWAY she's gong to have the operation to remover her thyroid (and get s dose of radioactive Iodine ? 2 -3 weeks later) ... and be out of work ? a few weeks.......
.....THIS approaching Monday 1-25-10.
She'll be in over night, and go stay at her friends' (the nurse) apt for 2 days, then s it home for her.
I'll be visiting and doing grocery shopping for her. And if she feels better with someone in the house during the day etc as she recovers I'll go over there for that as well ( like she just sleeps most of the first 2 days home etc.)
It's a very good hospital and while she doesn't like her Endocrinologist she loves her surgeon (who haas done about 2,000 of these operations)!
Both of us HAD TO get out of our minds' that this was NOT our friend's situation. I worry more like that... but SHE saw her friend to practically the very end ( and it was quite visually upsetting).
The biggest thing as a side effect she's worried about is permanent or long-term hoarseness --- she does a lot of talking as part of her job!
SO prayers/ good vibes/pagan dances are alllllll welcomed her way!
***THANKS*** in advance.
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) Prayers and positive vibes your way
Glad TO be able to help her. After we unload the groceries in the fridge we hung out for another few hours.
