scared.....

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Registered: 08-01-2003
scared.....
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Mon, 06-09-2008 - 8:16pm

Hello everyone. I am new to this board. My mother in law was diagnosed with colon cancer almost a year ago.. ok so i am going to start from the beginning. WE moved out of state about two years ago. After we moved, she started having breathing problems. She went to the dr. several times and they xrayed her and said more than once that she had childs asthma, emphysema, and copd. Well, she was on inhalers and everything and it helped her breathe. We moved back home because it sucked where we were. She started having this really bad pain in her side. long story short, she ended up having to have a third of her colon taken out. While they were taking out part of her colon, they seen her ovaries were just full of cancer. They were like 3 times the size they should have been. They ended up giving her a total hysterectomy.  When they removed everything it was suppose to have taken care of it. They put her on Chemo, in my eyes it was quit a bit, just in case something "leaked" out during the surgeries. Its been a couple months since she had her last chemo. The dr. hasn't done any follow ups at all. She has been having back pain now and a pain in her side again. She had a CT scan done and they found something on her kidneys. Its blocking the drainage. The radiologist said it looked like a cyst but its HUGE. They are sending her to a urologist tomorrow morning. Ok so now that I have the story off my chest... could it be cancer? I am so worried because if it has spread that far already.. what do we expect. I am mainly looking for support here. I am the one that has been taking her to all her appointments. I was there for her chemo and everything. Her husband won't even take a morning off of his self employed job to take her to her appointments. thanks for listening...


manda

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Registered: 09-06-2007
In reply to: adnam03
Tue, 06-10-2008 - 11:59pm

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