The scheduling of an endoscopic ultrasound is being delayed for a simple reason. That is because it is not worth doing one if there isn't going to be any major surgery.
Tomorrow the laparoscopy will be performed and the surgeon will know immediately whether I have secondary cancer. If he finds something then a biopsy will confirm the situation but, as I understand it, he will know pretty much straight away.
Either I am clear in the abdomen and we can deal with the already diagnosed tumour at the junction of the oesophagus and stomach or I have secondary cancer and there will not be an operation.
I don't know when I will learn of the surgeon's findings but it is the nature of this game with everything moving so quickly. Until this test is done I don't know whether the odds are stacked with me or against me. That is the plain truth of the situation.
Regardless of what the surgeon finds he is only discovering what is already there, so I will do my best to relax and hope for Lady Luck to shine on me once more.
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