Now We Wait...

Got home about an hour ago--yesterday was long, brutal and exhausting for everyone. Here's the breakdown:

• 5:00 AM- depart Delaware for New York
• 7:30 AM - arrive at NYU Medical Center; cousin Patty meets us there with wheelchair
• 9:00 AM - Mom taken into Radiology for liver biopsy
• 10:00 AM - biopsy finished and Mom is taken upstairs to be monitored for swelling, pain, bleeding, etc.
• 1:15 PM - depart NYUMC and go to NYU Cancer Institute for 2nd breast biopsy
• 3:00 PM - Pathology, me and Patty VERY confused as instead of a core biopsy another fine need aspiration was ordered....something is wrong. Pathology doctor calls breast oncologist
• 3:30 PM - Mom heads down from Pathology to breast surgeon's office (same building thankfully) for a core biopsy. (stupid, dumbshit secretary screwed up the appointment!)
• 4:00 PM - depart NYUCI for NYU Urology Associates 2 blocks away--we walk/push.
• 5:00 PM - meet with Mom's now assigned urologist for an exam. He then called the breast surgeon/oncologist and discussed his thoughts of action for the kidney situation, etc. We then had a discussion on the following:

Right kidney contains a huge mass;

**IF** liver tissue matches breast tissue (the cancer that is) then Mom will most likely undergo anti-hormonal meds and some chemotherapy for approximately 3 months.

At the end of that treatment period new images will be taken and if she has done well and the tumors have responded to the treatment (meaning shrunk), then we will deal with the kidney situation....meaning surgery to, and I quote "Get that thing out of there because **THAT** is what can kill you."

Nice, huh? Actually, as harsh as the above reads, the urologist was anything BUT harsh. He was open, honest and incredibly thorough. And he was NICE! He didn't leave the room to speak with Mom's breast surgeon--he made the call right in front of us. He said if the tests come back as we are all hoping it is a very positive thing, and the outcome will also be positive. He is worried that the kidney tumor, which is most likely NOT related to the breast or liver cancers, will spread eventually and that is very, very bad. BUT it is not something he feels needs to be dealt with immediately. The other two issues must get under control because kidney surgery, while only around a 2 hour procedure, is very serious and mom needs the strength for post-op recovery.

If all this goes according to the plan above, kidney surgery would be done sometime in the mid to late fall.

At any rate, all the tests are done and now we just sit and wait to for the phone to ring with the results.

That's it, I'm beat and want to take a nap.