Good enough -
Sep. 13th, 2004 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgJust got off the phone with Mom - all the imaging came back negative. The cancer is contained within the bladder. She sounds better, feels a bit better - but there are still concerns.
That one kidney is still not coming back online - hard to tell with all the antibiotics and so forth, but concerning. Chemotherapy is more difficult to do safely with only one kidney - so removing the bladder becomes more likely.
But no workup has been done there yet - so it's early.
And this type of diagnosis is hard to decide treatment for. There is a large body of professionals who only believe a good cure is removal. There is just as large a body of people who work very hard to spare the bladder and do radiation and chemo.
Yadda ya. I'm tired. I've got paperwork to do and then I'm going to bed.
That one kidney is still not coming back online - hard to tell with all the antibiotics and so forth, but concerning. Chemotherapy is more difficult to do safely with only one kidney - so removing the bladder becomes more likely.
But no workup has been done there yet - so it's early.
And this type of diagnosis is hard to decide treatment for. There is a large body of professionals who only believe a good cure is removal. There is just as large a body of people who work very hard to spare the bladder and do radiation and chemo.
Yadda ya. I'm tired. I've got paperwork to do and then I'm going to bed.
