We got it....We got it.........we aint got it!

[Uben]

Just updating. I took Carol to the chemo doc today, and she said we were going to start chemo next thursday, prescribed some nausea medicines and steroids for possible allergic reactions. Good. Finally going to get some treatment to start fighting this crap.
Then, stopped by to get third radiation treatment on spine.

So, we get home and have a call from her surgeon (from original breast cancer 9 yrs ago) who wanted the liver biopsy done yesterday. He had received the pathology from the biopsy. The good news is that it's not primary liver cancer. The bad news is that they have no friggin idea what kind of cancer it is! The doctors had assumed that it was a metastases from the original breast cancer, but it's definitely not that. So, they do not know what the primary cancer is. That means the chemo is in hold till we find out what we are fighting. He said it could be colon or pancreatic, or ovarian, or stomach, or just about any damned thing.

So, we don't know squat, and obviously the doctors don't either! They'll have to take more tissue samples from some of the metastases to try to determine what the primary is.

I'm at my wits end. I can't stand to be sitting here watching my wife suffer and wither away and nothing seems to be getting done.
I know it's just my frustration and that they are trying to figure all this out, but it seems like everything is travelling at a snails pace.

Sorry, I just had to vent. Thanks for listening.

Uben