Hi
One of my closes friends called me last night to tell me she has to
have a biopsy done next week. She’s been having horrible abdominal
pain, hasn’t been able to eat any fats or oily foods. She was in the
ER last week and they were able to determine it is her pancreas.
They did a special MRI yesterday - something with a drink she had to
have. She spoke with her Doctor yesterday who didn’t want to call
her until he spoke with some other experts and from what she told me
they found spots on her pancreas, liver and kidney. I also believe
they found what she is calling a cyst. They want to do a laparoscopy
next week and have her swallow something - I"m assuming a camera.
She’s not very good at listening to the doctors so I’m getting half
information. She calls me to do research for her based on what she
gets from the doctors. She also has lupus which she doesn’t
acknowledge very often. I’ve been searching all over the place to
find something that tells me this isn’t cancer, but I can’t find any
hopeful news. Her grandmothers sister also passed of pancreatic
cancer 3 years ago - she did not tell the doctors this, it took me
being very firm with her to get her to tell them she had the lupus -
she didn’t think it was important for them to know.
I know she’s in denial - she has a 7 yr old son and a 9mth old son.
She’s very active and can’t sit still - when she was pregnant she had
preterm labor and was supposed to be on bed rest but couldn’t stay
in.
I’m hoping someone can give me some hope that this isn’t cancer.
Also, if it is I’d like to be lead in the right direction for
researching treatments - both medical and alternative.
Thanks
Kristen