Yesterday my sister had a TURBT at the top hospital with top doc to remove her rare bladder tumor.
I drove about 900 miles with my 85 year old father and 9 year old son to be here with and for her. The doctor thinks he removed all of the tumor and doesn't yet know if it is a leimyoma or a blast. (Her pre-op paper work said as much and I also asked him directly). From the look of it he thinks it is probably benign. We'll know for sure when the path results come back.
She was supposed to come home today, but she is going to have to remain hospitalized at least for today. Unfortunately she ran a fever last night. She's had an infection from this tumor for a few months and they want to make sure she is in better shape before they discharge her. The plan is to release her tomorrow, but it is really dependent on her condition.
We have a joke in our family that if my sister were thrown into a mud hole she'd find a diamond in there. In that vein she was put into a hospital room with a roommate who proceeded to get violently ill. As a result the room wasn't habitable for my sister so they moved her NOT to another room but to the biggest suite in the urology hospital.
Leave it to my sister! She is now queen of one of the nation's top hospitals!
Meanwhile I'm very tired having driven 900 miles to get here on Friday and Saturday and then rising at 4:00 a.m. Monday to drive the one hour one way to the top hospital yesterday. I spent the day there until 3 p.m. when I drove the one hour back to her apartment.
So I'm tied today, but beginning to feel like myself.
Things like this make you really appreciate life. One of the women in the waiting room is married to a Russian. He is 37 and she just found out yesterday very bad news -- he has bad cancer as a result of having lived in the Chernobyl area. I felt so bad for her. We just never know what life has in store for us, so enjoy every day.
Thanks so much for your support. I'll keep the board posted.