So the wife hit a road bump 5 weeks back. Some fever and pain so we went straight in. They identified an abscess, drained and treated with oral antibiotics, including flagyl which was rough on her. "Stomach cramping" picked up about two weeks ago, thought it was just form the antibiotics. Last Monday night she was vomiting every 15-20 minutes with severe stomach cramps. We went in first thing Tuesday, the abscess was back!
They put in a drain and and ran x-ray for small bowel obstruction, clear. She was better Thursday morning. Thursday night cramping and nausea were back and bad. The only thing that helped was phenegran and really only because it knocked her out.
Ran a CT last night, found additional fluid in her lower left side. Not too worried because there has been no pain in that area.
Now they are thinking the pain may be cancer related instead of just inflamed or partially obstructed bowels. I should mention that the two CTs she received lately showed no additional lesions or physical cancer growth.
She is freaking out and I'm beginning to lose my positive attitude. She is in getting an MRI at the moment. They are trying to clear her to resume chemo, FOLFIRI +Avastin, for tomorrow. So it really sounds like they are concerned with spread further into the bowels.
She is already Stage IV with mets to the peritoneum, but thus far they have remained localized in the lower right quadrant.
We could really use any positivity or experience with a similar situation at the moment. Much love! And thanks in advance!