Dear Amy, Good luck with your scan tomorrow and I hope your liver is cooperating! I'm wishing the tiniest things for you. I also want to say that I've been reading your posts and I admire your attitude. And a side note: I was born a month earlier than planned, but I grew up just fine and made it to ...
Hello again! I wanted to write back as I'm in a much more positive mode! We loved her oncologist; she was kind, engaging, and right to the point. She ordered more pathology tests for kras, nras, braf, cmet, and something else i cannot read (hir2? mir2?) and mom will have a pet-scan next week. Does a...
Dear Nicole, I'm new around here as a care-giver to my dear mom; she has mets in her liver too. That your liver mets were SO responsive to chemo is AMAZING. 10 to 2 means 80% response! Your body is on your side, it's fighting with you--would it help to think chemo as your arsenal? I won't dare to sa...
In your meeting, you can also go over the various reasons why a liver tumor might not be removable right now: https://www.verywellhealth.com/unresectable-tumors-reasons-treatment-2249210 Dear O Stoma Mia, thank you so much for these links too. They were very informative. Unfortunately, my mom seems...
stu wrote:Hi , With just six cycles of treatment my mum’s scan could hardly detect any cancer . It is only the beginning of treatment and lots of options available to her . Take care, Stu
This gives me so much hope dear Stu! Thank you so much.
Dear Stu, Knowing your mom responded so well to chemo makes me really happy. Your messages in an earlier thread had given me a direction too; many thanks. How long does it take to know if chemo is working? I was really just hoping they would just get rid of the things in her liver during her colon s...
Dear O Sto Mia, Thank you so much! The pathology template was extremely helpful. The report is in Turkish, I'm trying to translate it myself to hear from people with similar reports. Her surgeon didn't talk to us about it, he just gave me the report and told me to give it to her oncologist. I'm tryi...
We just got mom's pathology report. She is diagnosed with colon cancer (01/18) and got a LAP for her sigmoid and left ovary tube. She has 3 mets in her liver, largest one being 2 cms. Also a suspicious nodule in her lungs. (After I have a sense of what is going on, I will add a signature.) We'll mee...
Thank you all so much. We got home today, she took a shower and is resting now. They found another met in her liver during surgery. The largest one was reported as "around 15 mm" in the MRI report, but in the surgery log it says "around 20 mm" in Segment 8. Others are 6 and 8mms,...
Those are very good suggestions! I've been trying to figure out what she'd like and what she'd be interested in, but crafty things don't seem to interest her (which sucks because sewing is my anti-depressant). The only thing she was interested in was learning to play the piano, but with her fingers ...
I don't know if it's my connection or that I'm a new member--I don't see my former post. Sorry if I'm repeating myself: Dear Punky44, thank you both so much. I'm sending good energies your way too. It's very helpful to see similar paths and concerns. I legitimately get mad at people if they are not ...
Thank you so much LPL, I'm hoping it's nothing too, but every time I tried to be hopeful ("it's diverticulitis," "no distant mets," "lymph nodes might go away," "her liver thing might not be a metastasis; it CANNOT just appear in 3 weeks!", "ok--they'll r...
Hello, (Sorry in advance for potential language problems, not a native English speaker.) Before I start telling mom's story, I want to thank everyone who took the time to share their stories and took care of each other. I have been reading every single thing I can on colon cancer since the day I sta...