The Surgeon Appointment

Wow what a day. Our appointment was at 1pm today and we are just gett ing back at 9pm. Met with a Resident 1st after waiting about 1 1/2 hours for him. He goes over her history which is 15 years worth of strokes, heart valve replacement, colon cancer, numerous scans over the last few months. The Resident says he will converse with the surgeon and they both would be back to talk to us. Another hour passes and I go to see what is going on. Dr Shen (the surgeon) is in consultation with the nuclear medicine doc over the PET CT scan done on Mom yesterday there. The Liver showed the same as the CT previous (a 2.5cm place on the left lobe of liver ) . Another area in the left chest near the rib cage also reacted on the scan. AFter many consultations with Radiologist Dr. Shen decides the place on the rib cage is probably not anything but he feels Mom needs a BONE SCAN to rule out the place . By this point I about ready to explode even though I realize Dr. Shen's concern. He pretty much said that he would not do surgery if the bone scan was positive and that was the only way to confirm it. So, by this time it is about 4pm and we start trying to scheduled for bone scan next week(don't know exact day yet) because everyone had already left the office to schedule. They are to call tomorrow with the appt. We did schedule surgery for NOV 25th...yes the day before Thanksgiving because Dr. Shen was booked up until mid Dec if we didn't take that date.
*****RECAP of Today*****
Bone scan next week and if NEG she will have surgery the 25th. If Bone Scan is positive she will not have surgery and then decide about chemo. I had Dr Shen pull her blood work from last week and none of her bone enzymes are elevated so hopefully it is not significant. Dr shen said that sometimes the scans react with bone contusions where injury or bruising has been in the past and the bone scan would tell him for sure if it is cancer or not. One positive thing about today is Dr. Shen will try to remove the cancer in the liver by laprascopic or robotics if possible so she will have quicker recovery. He was also quite impressed with her history and how well she looked for all she has been through. He said most would not have survived all she has gone through medically already. Then it rained all the way home....down poured at times until I could hardly see to drive...but we made it and we wait once again but with a date at least if needed. Until then, we pray.