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Sep. 22nd, 2021 07:23 pmMy dad has been having some pretty bad 'grinding' back pain for a while now. He recently went in to the doctor and when they did a physical my dad requested that they do an xray. They did that and...
he has a mass. Today he had an oncology appointment to check it out. I don't know if they're doing a biopsy today, or if they need to schedule an appointment, and then I don't know when we'll get any results. He had a CT scan about a week after they found the mass in the x-ray, and then they scheduled his appointment with oncology that was today.
He's coming home with food from our favorite mexican food. I want him to keep me in the loop, but I think both he and my sis feel like I'm too "delicate" or something. At the same time, I am terrified. I'll write more later, I think he just got home.
Okay, the doctor seems pretty sure that it's cancerous. They're going to schedule him for a PET scan and a down-the-nose biopsy. The tumor is on his left side near the top of his lung. We don't know yet if it's malignant or benign. The doctor has approved a higher dose of pain med because the mass is sitting on an area that would cause a lot of pain. The impression also is that the doc wants to remove it via surgery. My dad talked about my godmother's sister, who had a tumor like that and when she got it removed she lived for another ten years, up til her nineties and I guess that's what we're hoping for here.
My dad said the doctor asked him what got him into the office. He said that it usually took around 3 more months or up to a year to request a chest xray. I don't know if my dad told him, but my godmother's mom (who was my dad's ex-sweetheart) for a long time complained about pain, but the doctors ignored her and didn't do xrays. Eventually she moved to the coast, and the doctor there requested an xray, and there was cancer there, but it had been there too long for any treatment to be of use.
he has a mass. Today he had an oncology appointment to check it out. I don't know if they're doing a biopsy today, or if they need to schedule an appointment, and then I don't know when we'll get any results. He had a CT scan about a week after they found the mass in the x-ray, and then they scheduled his appointment with oncology that was today.
He's coming home with food from our favorite mexican food. I want him to keep me in the loop, but I think both he and my sis feel like I'm too "delicate" or something. At the same time, I am terrified. I'll write more later, I think he just got home.
Okay, the doctor seems pretty sure that it's cancerous. They're going to schedule him for a PET scan and a down-the-nose biopsy. The tumor is on his left side near the top of his lung. We don't know yet if it's malignant or benign. The doctor has approved a higher dose of pain med because the mass is sitting on an area that would cause a lot of pain. The impression also is that the doc wants to remove it via surgery. My dad talked about my godmother's sister, who had a tumor like that and when she got it removed she lived for another ten years, up til her nineties and I guess that's what we're hoping for here.
My dad said the doctor asked him what got him into the office. He said that it usually took around 3 more months or up to a year to request a chest xray. I don't know if my dad told him, but my godmother's mom (who was my dad's ex-sweetheart) for a long time complained about pain, but the doctors ignored her and didn't do xrays. Eventually she moved to the coast, and the doctor there requested an xray, and there was cancer there, but it had been there too long for any treatment to be of use.
