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Ruby the Liberal

(26,312 posts)
Mon May 4, 2015, 08:28 PM May 2015

More testing tomorrow

Scheduled for an MRCP (an MRI that looks at the liver and pancreas) and blood work to look for cancer markers in those organs. I don't know much about this - only that there is a concern that abdominal pain without obvious cause apparently makes doctors nervous in cancer survivors. No stress there, right? LOL!

Prefer to think its just indigestion at this point. I recall back in the 80s, being shipped off to the ER with a possible ruptured appendix. While there, I farted, felt human again, so they sent me home. Yes, indeed I paid $150 to fart in the ER. Hopefully this week's story will make as fond a memory as that one.

Thoughts and well wishes greatly appreciated. I am SO ready to get beyond all of this scary talk from doctors and just live my life, knowing that each and every one of you understand that from which I speak.

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More testing tomorrow (Original Post) Ruby the Liberal May 2015 OP
Thinking of you! Solly Mack May 2015 #1
Arggle - why didn't I think of that?? Ruby the Liberal May 2015 #2
The more you toot Downwinder May 2015 #3
What an appropriate username Ruby the Liberal May 2015 #7
Well just ugh. Ruby the Liberal May 2015 #4
Sorry as the waiting is difficult ... slipslidingaway May 2015 #5
Thank you Ruby the Liberal May 2015 #8
sorry to hear but stay positive - my abnormal MRI turned out to be wordpix May 2015 #6
What a great idea! Ruby the Liberal May 2015 #9

Ruby the Liberal

(26,312 posts)
2. Arggle - why didn't I think of that??
Mon May 4, 2015, 09:36 PM
May 2015

A fart in honor is PERFECT. Amending to thoughts, well wishes, and if you can muster it - blast one (preferrably outside, and down wind).



Thanks for the support.

Ruby the Liberal

(26,312 posts)
4. Well just ugh.
Wed May 6, 2015, 01:32 PM
May 2015

Nurse from the doctor's office called me this morning. MRI was "abnormal" and some tumor marker came back positive (could be false positive) so now I have to go in a few weeks and have a tube stuck down my throat so that they can take pictures and do biopsies.

Just when the weather is getting pretty - and now mentally dealing with possibilities all over again.

Meh. Not going to let this get to me. Not even going to think about it until the new test is over.

slipslidingaway

(21,210 posts)
5. Sorry as the waiting is difficult ...
Sat May 9, 2015, 10:39 PM
May 2015

and speaking more from a caregiver's point of view, wishing the best possible outcome

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
6. sorry to hear but stay positive - my abnormal MRI turned out to be
Sun May 10, 2015, 04:34 PM
May 2015

a bacterial infection in my stomach, which was diagnosed by endoscopy and treated with antibiotics. Don't ask me how I got the infection. Suggest you get some mmj to deal with the scanxiety.

Ruby the Liberal

(26,312 posts)
9. What a great idea!
Thu May 14, 2015, 08:48 PM
May 2015


I'll call the city PD this weekend and see what strains they have confiscated this week.

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