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Please say a prayer, not for me but for my wife. She has been sick for nearly a year. We finally after months got a diagnosis as to what is wrong with her. There is not really a cure for it but it can be treated. She is pretty much constantly in pain. So far the doctors have not gotten the right combination of medications but we seem to be getting closer. She has her good days and her bad days, although there are more of the bad.
Last month a routine mammogram revealed something they thought needed to be reviewed. The second mammogram confirmed a mass. After biopsy it came back as a non cancerous calcification. That was a heck of a couple of weeks. We both felt like the condemned man given a reprieve!
We kind of thought the worst might be behind us and now we could deal with the hand dealt us. I had even begun to feel like going to the shop and working on some knife stuff again.
Last week we had to go back and have another ultra sound done on her thyroid to check some masses that appeared in a routine ultra sound done while she was hospitalized early this year. The doctor had basically told her that thyroid cancer was so slow growing that it was not a big deal. However when we went to see him he made the statement that there were two kinds of thyroid cancer. One had almost a 100% cure rate and the other was basically incurable.
The new ultra sound showed the masses have grown and they appear to have irregular edges. I cant say how much I dont like the sound of that. They will be scheduling her for biopsy sometime in the next two weeks. She has to be off her heart medication for at least seven days before they will do the biopsy, for fear of excessive bleeding.
Please say a prayer for her that the biopsy comes back negative. I know they say the good Lord wont give you more than you can handle but I feel like we are both at the end of our ropes here! I do however really believe in the power of prayer.
Thanks,
Dixieblade57
Last month a routine mammogram revealed something they thought needed to be reviewed. The second mammogram confirmed a mass. After biopsy it came back as a non cancerous calcification. That was a heck of a couple of weeks. We both felt like the condemned man given a reprieve!
We kind of thought the worst might be behind us and now we could deal with the hand dealt us. I had even begun to feel like going to the shop and working on some knife stuff again.
Last week we had to go back and have another ultra sound done on her thyroid to check some masses that appeared in a routine ultra sound done while she was hospitalized early this year. The doctor had basically told her that thyroid cancer was so slow growing that it was not a big deal. However when we went to see him he made the statement that there were two kinds of thyroid cancer. One had almost a 100% cure rate and the other was basically incurable.
The new ultra sound showed the masses have grown and they appear to have irregular edges. I cant say how much I dont like the sound of that. They will be scheduling her for biopsy sometime in the next two weeks. She has to be off her heart medication for at least seven days before they will do the biopsy, for fear of excessive bleeding.
Please say a prayer for her that the biopsy comes back negative. I know they say the good Lord wont give you more than you can handle but I feel like we are both at the end of our ropes here! I do however really believe in the power of prayer.
Thanks,
Dixieblade57
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