Results are in from Wake Forest Testing!

Can you believe Wake Forest phones you by mid-morning the day after THAT many tests, to give results? I love it! By way of comparison, when you get a mammogram in Boone, it's at least three WEEKS before you get a LETTER saying you're okay. And if you go to my personal physician in Blowing Rock and get a blood test in January, it's at least (what's today's date?) June 10th, and you STILL haven't heard how it came out.

But back to Wake Forest and the cowpunchin ponyboy's status:

Would you rather hear the good news first or the bad news?

Oh, wait! There's no for-sure-absolutely BAD news--just nerve-wracking-possibilities news, which is still better than doomsday news.

Okay, let's do good news first.

GOOD NEWS
Bone scan: Perfect!

THE TWO NERVE-WRACKING-POSSIBILITIES-NEWS

1. They found a little problem in the system of tubes that connects from his kidneys to his exit location. They are calling it a "filling defect" meaning that the urine isn't flowing correctly through one of the tubes. I said, "Could this be a tumor causing this?" and the nurse said that yes, it could be, but no one is saying that yet, because he needs further testing. So on the 24th when we go back for a conference with the Celestial Dr. Torti, we will get a test called a "Loop-o-gram" that day to find out what is causing the "filling defect." I defer the many humorous comments I could be making about any test called a "Loop-o-gram" except to say that I once saw a group of gentlemen at a Dublin pub, none of whom I'm sure would ever pass such a test.



2. They also found something wrong with one of his lymph nodes in his abdomen. It looks suspicious. So Dr. Torti will tell us on the 24th whether he thinks an MRI is necessary or whether they will do another kind of treatment or procedure. I asked if we could get the MRI that same day, but she said, no, Dr. Torti won't decide until that day if an MRI is needed, so we would have to go back for the MRI on another day.

The good news about both of these things is that these findings don't necessarily mean his cancer is setting up new real estate. These could be things that Dr. Walwhack missed during surgery. [And would have caught AFTER surgery, had he done these tests we begged him for. Even the Journal of Urology protocols say that Bill should have had these tests right now!]

And so, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.....nah, we aren't goin there.

Thanks again for following.

Love,
B&B