It's been 5 or 6 years since my mom had cancer/chemotherapy. This April, she said that her abdominant area started to hurt so she went to her family doctor and her cancer doctor. They did a few tests on her liver, stomache, etc and found that all those were fine.
She went back to the cancer doctor again in May saying that she's not fine and it hurt really bad. The cancer doc promised her that she had no cancer and told her to go to her family doctor again. She did. They tested her again, no problem. And she went home thinking that it could be a muscle cram.
Beginning of this month, she was hurting so bad she couldn't sleep. She went back to the family doctor again. They tested her again saying that she might have galbladder stone. Nope nothing. Took an X-ray, and the doc said it looked completely fine. She went to the cancer doctor again, and this time they did a CT scan (FINALLY!).
The results came back the next day and it showed that she has a 6 cm tumor between her heart and stomache under her ribs.
She got the phone call, and she cried.
The family doc should have seen it on the X-ray. The cancer doc shouldn't have waited so long to do a CT scan and even promised her that she had no cancer.
So she is switching hospital to MD Anderson in Houston. She spent the week driving back and forth to houston for check-ups. The result will be out Tuesday. if the tumor is benign, she may be going through surgery to remove it, which the surgent would have to remove 1/2 of one of her lungs.
If the tumor is malignant, she might be going thru surgery or straight into chemotherapy with radiation, which would very extremely painful for her.
If the doctors had been more careful and found the tumor earlier, radiation could have taken care of it. And because of this, we may be suing the doctors.
Please pray for my mom.
