Another Day in Paradise

Hello All... well it's another day in paradise here.  Anne's causing drama either intentionally, inadvertently, or accidentally but there's drama anyway.  Long inner family drama so no need to go into it here but alas it is there anyways and is making me cranky!

So it's been awhile since I've posted here. The latest info is as follows.  Mom is still in hospital, she's upset, scared, and exhausted.  Yesterday they ran a battery of tests on her all day.  She couldn't eat from midnight Sunday until around 7 pm on Monday so she was starving, going through nicotine and smoking withdrawals and generally depressed all at the same time.  As I said before (I'm probably rambling now because my brain is fried out) the doctors did a whole bunch of tests yesterday, they did a second batch of CT Scans, a biopsy of the lung tumor, an MRI on the brain, a bone scan to look for any cancer in the bones, and a barium (I think that's what it's called, its the yucky chalk like stuff that lets them look at your intestines and lower parts of your stomach area) CT scan.

We have to wait until Tomorrow or most probably Thursday for the results of the biopsy.  There could be no cancer (fat chance in h. e. double hockey sticks, but hey it's worth a prayer right?) or there are two types of lung cancer, or who knows it could be some other type of cancer (not likely either but I feel like typing so I'm typing!) There are small cell and non small cell lung cancers.  The small cell cancer is the scary fast one that's hard to treat and doesn't respond well so were hoping against that.  The non small cell cancer is more treatable.  The saying I'm going with is that the cancer is treatable at this point but no curable.

The CT scan of the brain showed nine small tumors in the brain.  The neurosurgeon said that it would be to risky to go in and cut them all out.  The best treatment is to go in with radiation and possibly some sort of pill thing and treat it that way.  Overall neutral news in my opinion.

The bone scan was good news news.  The Dr. said there was two unusual spots on her ribs but that they didn't look how they should for spreading cancer.  He asked about any injuries to the ribs.  My mom said none at first but then I piped up and said that she was in a motorcycle accident when she was young and that got her to thinking about how much they hurt when she was coughing up her lungs over the last few months which got her remembering that she thought she tore them or hurt them.  Doctor said that that sounded right and that the heat (?) the bone was putting out seemed right for an injury to them in that time frame.  So that was really good news because if it was in the bones it would be bad.

The barium test (that's what I'm calling it if it's wrong then comment with the right name but until then it stays!) had her drink yucky drinks two hours apart. She had first drink at 3:00, second one at 4:00 and they were supposed to come get her at 5:00.  Well 5:10 then 5:15 come by and I'm getting nervous because I'm thinking this stuff is going to wear off. I go out and ask for her nurse at 5:30, she calls down and theres an ER patient with an Emergency who needs the machine.  So we wait until 6:30 before they take her down.  The dinner service ends at 6:30, I had ordered her dinner but they said they couldn't release it until the nurse took off the no food notes in her account.  So i go and try to find her food near the hospital.  She wanted scrambled eggs with bacon.  Easy you would think but I could find no open diners near the stupid hospital! I Finlay found a Togo's and figured should would eat a sandwich. I get it, go back to the hospital and up to her room.  She's not back yet but on her table is her dinner tray that wasn't supposed to come.... UGH! She came back, ate, and all was good.

Well my arm hurts from typing at this weird angle on my laptop so I'm done for tonight.  You all are updated on the latest, I'm tired and have to go to work tomorrow.  Yuck! Have a good night all!