[Magdalen] Continuing prayers for Keith and for me

[Sally Davies]

Yes...that's a hard one.

We haven't said anything yet to them, nor to my Mom so figuring out how and
when to do that...? Evan's had a very rocky couple of weeks, he definitely
picks up on tension and expresses it right out there. Donal doesn't show
anything like that but as you say, good at figuring things out.

Until it became obvious (just yesterday) that the doctors we first
consulted aren't happy with the biopsy, we were just putting it all behind
us and breathing a sigh of relief.

And of course as my sister said this morning, "we still don't know what
this is". The not-knowing is hard, and harder still to communicate to
others who aren't well equipped to handle it, not that anyone really is.

Sally



On Friday, 20 February 2015, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Sally, Prayers indeed for both you and Keith, and of course for
> the boys as well, who must know something´s up.
> Regards
> Lesley de Voil
>
> On 2/20/15, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Prayers indeed that you might experience Christ's peace while all around
> > is being buffeted.
> >
> > Roger
> > On 20/02/2015 09:23, Sally Davies wrote:
> >> Oh dear...this week has been a roller coaster, and now it's heading down
> >> faster than I can handle.
> >>
> >> It seems that the radiologist who did Keith's biopsy on Monday
> >> "definitely
> >> missed" which leaves us back at Square One. I met his physician this
> >> morning on the ward and he pulled me aside to tell me this...which was
> >> the
> >> end of my working day. I can't handle seeing another hospital patient
> >> even
> >> if he or she is improving!!
> >>
> >> My sister shares this opinion and already asked for more tests, another
> >> blood test for something or others, and a 24 hour urine collection for
> >> serotonin - since if these are tumours they're probably
> >> carcinoid/neuro-endocrine tumours. So he's in the middle of that and
> will
> >> go back for the bloods later on.
> >>
> >> If the test is positive we more or less have the diagnosis, at least six
> >> malignant growths in his liver and who knows where else. If negative,
> >> it's
> >> still not good because another biopsy will have to be done. The lesion
> >> they
> >> went for is large and close to the surface, but it's tricky - you have
> to
> >> hold your breath and keep still because our livers are attached to our
> >> diaphragms and move along with the breathing.
> >>
> >> Keith is going to Cape Town next week so the plan, if it can be
> arranged,
> >> is for him to see a specialist there instead of going around the loop
> >> again
> >> in this provincial neck of the woods.
> >>
> >> I'm officially a nervous wreck!! Don't even want to go back to church
> >> after
> >> last week's reading - Elisha's sorry and "Don't speak of it". I wish we
> >> didn't have to speak of it, but we must.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your prayers, they mean a great deal to me.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>