My sister had her first scan since the last bout of chemo last Monday and had an appointment with her Consultant, Dr Chan, this morning. I had been thinking about her all morning. We already had that wonderful news all those months ago that she didn't have liver cancer at all, just the lung cancer that had not spread. I was so hoping the good news would continue.
The text came through to me at 11.50am this morning. I don't even recall going from standing to sitting on the sofa as I read those words on the screen. This is the text in its entirety:
Not exactly the news I was hoping for. Everything is stable since the last scan so ok there. Last Dr told me wrong. Dr Chan says liver is affected and that is the item of concern because of how important it is. He says leaving treatment until starts growing not good idea as it is hard to see the liver so may not know if too much damage to point that treatment may not work. He said there may be an option of having chemo tablets every three weeks that don't have bad side effects. Have appointment in six weeks and will have tomake decision then but sounds like will have to start treatment again.
So you could say I got a bit of a shock today. Our glee at her not having liver cancer was rather short bloody lived. I am so friggin angry that someone was allowed to give her wrong information.
I'll be there for her again just as I was before. I have no plans on being made rich by her insurance policy until I'm old and grey!



