Connie B Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 WOW Karen, this really does sound like promising news! HOWEVER, we wait some MORE! Do these doctor's have any idea how many of us are waiting for his results????? Well, we won't push our luck, we'll just let them run test after test so they can tell us it's just a bonkitis bump. It's worth the wait. Sending you extra prayers. Hugs, Connie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam'swifeShirley Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 Dear Karen & David, Hoping you get a good report from the CT scan. Prayers to you all. May God Bless Us All. SamswifeShirley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 Hello Dave and Karen, I'm sorry that you have to face this uncertantity. My Mom is having a similar problem but with fluid, and blindness, no one seems to know exactly what it is.. it drives me crazy. I'm crossing everything and praying extra hard its nothing but extra brain or b onkers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O Posted June 16, 2004 Share Posted June 16, 2004 I am so sorry that you have to gear up for battle again. You know you have my prayers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chloesmom Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Hey Karen and Dave, This sounds like better news! I vote for bonkitis!!!! Really though, I think we all have little irregularities that mostly go unnoticed except for "our history." I am sure the docs will get to the bottom of this really soon and am hoping that it's just something silly--irregular bone formation or something like that. Hang in there.... Cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nushka Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Sorry you have to undergo more tests but I am glad your doc is being so careful. I too, vote for bonkitis. Keep us in touch. Ginny, I hadn't heard about the Duke's brain mets. Will look for your post. Nina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted June 17, 2004 Author Share Posted June 17, 2004 Another little update: The radiologist took a look at the facial CT scan Dave had and said he definitely has a sinus infection, but also said there could be something going on in the bone as well but can't see it that well because of the sinus infection. Now, Dave doesn't feel at all like he has a sinus infection, so this is weird. The plan is to get him to the ENT as soon as possible - they got him an appt. for next Wed. but are trying to get him in sooner - for treatment of the sinus infection AND to needle biopsy the bonkitis. I don't see how a sinus infection that you can't even feel can cause a raised area on your forehead. But the bonkitis is right on top of a sinus cavity. The roller coaster ride continues. I am starting to feel a little silly worrying so much about this when most of you are going through bigger problems right now. My Dad is having heart catherization on Monday and my Mom is so anemic she needs a blood transfusion, they think she might have a bleeding ulcer, also has nerve pains in her legs so has to see a neurgologist for that, but doesn't want to do anything until after my Dad's thing on Monday. I think everything will be OK. thanks for letting me vent it all out! Karen C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhutch1366 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Karen, If you don't vent here, then may I ask, WHERE?? Hoping everything goes well with your dad, and that your mom gets off her -chair- and gets herself taken care of. Prayers that this will be relatively minor something or other. I can still come down and growll at it. I promise to not scare Faith, just David's bonk. Prayers, my friend, always... XOXOXOXOX MaryAnn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted June 17, 2004 Author Share Posted June 17, 2004 Mary Ann, Mom just emailed to tell me she's getting all the tests for her anemia problems (Upper GI, colon stuff, etc.) done tomorrow. Hopefully we'll have everyone on the right track by the end of next week! Karen C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norme Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Karen, I just e-mailed you before I found this message. I sure hope and pray the toys are causing all the problems. Sure hope your mom and dad come through in flying colors too. Take care of yourself also. much love Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted June 23, 2004 Author Share Posted June 23, 2004 Whew, it's been quite a week. I sure have missed the board but I haven't had time for it anyway! 1. My dad rushed my mom to the hospital on Sunday morning she thought she was having a heart attack. Crushing chest pain, numb left arm, shortness of breath. She did not have an actual heart attack but instead her hemaglobin had dropped even lower and her heart was freaking out because it didn't have enough blood (and therefore oxygen and iron) to work properly. She was admitted to the hospital and given four pints of blood over two days. Yesterday she had an endoscopy and colonscopy which discovered the source of her blood loss: a tumor in her colon. but just one one . . . malignant tumor. 2. On Monday my dad was admitted TO A DIFFERENT HOSPITAL for a scheduled heart catherization. They found two of the three arteries to his heart blocked - one 99% and one 90%. Thankfully he had an excellent, experienced cardiologist who was able to fix them right then and there with stents. He spent the night in the hospital. My brother took him home the next day, he walked into the house, picked up his car keys and drove himself to the hospital where my mom is (he took her there instead of to "his" hospital on Sunday because it was literally 3 or 4 minutes closer). Mom's admitting physician is a cardiologist since they thought she was having a heart attack. We love him, he is Vietnamese, my mom adores him I can tell. Once the GI doc found the colon tumor the cardiologist said he wanted to do a heart catherization on my mom immediately to make sure there was no damage to her heart before turning her over to a surgeon to get the tumor cut out. We all agreed that my mom should be moved to my dad's hospital because it is a heart specialist hospital and frankly the hospital my mom was in SUCKS. So this morning she was moved and around 10:00 she had the catherization and her heart checked out fine. Mom is having her colon surgery tomorrow. NOW TO DAVID: We saw the ENT doc today (in fact were sitting in the waiting room when my dad called to say my mom's heart was OK). The ENT doc said she could definitely see green stuff up his nose (she poked and prodded up there with all kinds of fun toys) and took a swab and is having it path'ed so she can prescribe the exact antiobiotic for the infection. She said that radiation to the head (Dave had PCI) can definitely damage ducts leading out of sinus cavities causing back up of fluid and bacteria infection. also said there was "striations" on the bone which could have been caused by infection eating away at it OR cancer spread, although she agreed with the oncology radiologist that it is an unusual place for it go to. So to be sure she is going to do a surgical biopsy of the bone there IN THE SAME HOSPITAL MY MOM IS IN. Soon, we are waiting to hear when they schedule it. If it is an infection of the bone he may have to stay in the hospital for a day or two and get an antibiotic IV. I will say it was funny to go into the cath lab at the hospital and see my mother laying in the same recovery cubicle my dad was in two days before, with my dad sitting there looking like a million bucks, and the nurses all gathered around making over my parents. they said they were going to put a plague up in that cubicle dedicating it to my parents, ha! It was really nice and they are a great bunch and I enjoyed visiting my mom and talking to them. they told us all to stop back in as we're there to say hello and I plan to do that. Hopefully my mom's tumor was caught early - it is small and she had a colonoscopy three years ago which was clean - and Dave's thing is an infection and easily resolved - and in about a week or so everyone will be on track to NORMAL AND HEALTHY. Thanks for listening and God Bless! Karen C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betplace Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Wow Karen! Lots of good news. Hugs and Happy Dances going out for you and all your family! Glad that every thing is working out. I will keep praying for all of you. Blessings Betty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connie B Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 H O L Y C O W WOW, do you think you can fit anything else in here??? Well.................. THANK GOD! And Happy Days are here again! So happy to hear things are LOOKING UP!! God Bless You All. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhutch1366 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Karen, Gee, you've been busy. Hope Faith is holding up okay about this. Don't you just love kids, this all goes right by them.... they live in the moment..... Hoping Dave doesn't have a huge miserable abscess in his sinuses, that would take more than a couple days to deal with. Hoping your mom and dad are A-OK real soon! XOXOX Prayers, MaryAnn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 oh my goodness someone had a busy week I think all in all it does not sound bad and actually sounds positive and good. So phew! I hoep your work did not give you a hard time. Can I ick their butt if they did? Keep posting updates, I am anxious to hear how everything goes with everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Thanks for the update. Whew, what a week! All and all the news seems pretty good, huh! Keeping you all in my thoughts. elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted June 23, 2004 Author Share Posted June 23, 2004 Andrea, you can kick one boss's butt. He was being a typical weinie (who's going to open my mail? who's going to send my faxes? who's going to hold my pathetic weinie hand????) so when my other, cool, female boss told me to "don't worry about this place" I said, now, how am I supposed to not worry about this place when Mr. Weinie is whining about it to me? I then told her that if he didn't back off I was going to look into getting my old job back at the law firm. So she went over and told him to leave me alone. He had to send one more whining email about whether or not I was taking care of something that I told him four times already I was handling so I replied and told him that I thought it was unnecessary to ask me about it again when I had repeatedly assured him it was being taken care of and I didn't want to discuss it again. So, yes, come kick some lawyer butt, you lawyer you. Ha, I feel better already! Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted June 23, 2004 Author Share Posted June 23, 2004 I want to say one more thing about my mom. She is a breast cancer survivor. hers was caught EARLY with a mammagram - it was the size of "grains of sand" and a lumptecomy and radiation got it. that was about eight years ago. my mom rocks! Karen C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chloesmom Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Geez Karen, so what are you doing in your spare time right now??????? I'm glad though that this all sounds like managable stuff--finding something early is so much better, as we all know......thinking of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nushka Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Gee, talk about a busy week. I will keep your entire family in my thoughts and hope that your mom's surgery goes great. I am glad they caught it early. Also will be keeping my fingers (and everything else that will cross) that this bonkitis is all that is going on with Dave. Hopefully he can take oral antibiotics and stay home with you. Nina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharyn Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 So Karen... Could your plate be any more full??? You my friend are incredible - keeping up with everything and still finding the time to keep us all posted! You are MY HERO!! Things definetely sound better for your husband - and Dad is on the mend - Moms colon cancer sounds like it was probably caught very early so.... I am keeping everything crossed and double-crossed that things turn around for you PRONTO!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norme Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Karen, Mrs Nerves of Steel, take a rest now. YOu are some lady. Prayers for all your family members and you to.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jana_W Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Wow! What a week. I am sorry to read about your Mum but it sounds like she is an old hand at getting rid of those pesky cancer cells. Sounds good to me that she had a clear colonoscopy three years ago too. Was thrilled to read that David's problems look like being an infection. Phew! Hope you are finding some time to relax, sleep and eat (but it doesn't sound like that would easy to do at the moment). Take care Jana xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remembering Dave Posted June 24, 2004 Author Share Posted June 24, 2004 Thanks, ya'll, but last night I thought the cracking was happening. ugh. all is better with me now. all of this and one boss at work hassaling (sp?) me about taking time off for yet another family crisis. he actually reduced my raise b/c I didn't apply for FMLA for the time I took to care for Dave last year. told me I didn't protect myself. what a jerk. and I took nothing but my own vacation time and three days off without pay THAT HE APPROVED. anyway, I asked for the FMLA package and HR told me I shouldn't need it becuase I wasn't taking that much time and besides, it was my time to take (vacation time). I insisted, got the package, and told him I was in the process of protecting myself, ha, but my other boss heard this from me for the first time and "spoke with him" so hopefully this is nipped in the bud. long story behind it all of the usual psycho co worker and office politics. I honestly don't care I told him I was sorry he felt that way, I had no clue he felt that way, but it didn't matter because I didn't care how he felt and my husband was far more important to me than a lousy job and I could always go back to my old job which is very true. Ok, prayers that my mom's colon cancer had not spread yet AND that Dave's biopsy comes back clear. then, as I like to say, we will have once again gotten away with it all! thanks for the support everyone, glad the site is back up in time for my online therapy. Karen C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay A. Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 I couldn't sign on to the board for a few days and I was emailing all kinds of people trying to find out how you guys were doing....Now I know why no one had heard from you! Good Grief! Fingers, Toes, Eyes and all other movable body parts crossed that your Mom does well, your Dad does well, you do well, your cool boss does well, Faith does well, and that all Dave has is a rather bad sinus infection that can be treated with the right antibiotics and HE does well... Your [/i][/b]other boss is another story. May he live in interesting times.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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