Life happens
and you forget things. I seem to have
forgotten very important things - one in
particular.
Claire had
her liver ultrasound 2 weeks ago at her Duke checkup. Preliminary results were good as we found out
when seeing the hepatologist after the ultrasound. I kind of forgot about asking for the final
results until yesterday. I went online
to the portal Duke has that usually posts all of the test results and
everything. Still no final result. I remembered they were in the process of
switching over to a new portal so I am figuring there is a longer lag to post
radiology results. So I just called the
nurse.
When she
returned my call, she said everything looked good on the ultrasound. The right side of Claire’s liver that is
regrowing looks good. Then she said “There
is one picture that shows a residual piece of hamartoma.” “What?!
Where did that come from?! Did
they measure it? What size is it?” These
were my questions. The nurse said the
doctor was not concerned about it and that it was probably just left from the
surgery. They didn’t even measure it so
it was not significant.
Well it is
to me! AHH! So I started freaking out. I went back to all of Claire’s old radiology
reports and read through them. Then it
hit me. They did leave 1 cyst on the
left side of her liver during the surgery.
I remember the surgeon saying they couldn’t remove it because it would
have taken too much of her remaining liver on the left side. So since it was really small they were
leaving it and going to watch what it did.
Ok, ok. So I am assuming this “residual” that they
saw on the 1 picture is that cyst that the surgeon had to leave. How could I have forgotten that? How did I forget there was a cyst left in
there? I am thinking I probably pushed
it out of my brain so I wouldn’t worry about it. I have replaced those fears with fun memories
I guess. Which is a good thing! But it scared me for a minute. And then brings back those fears of “oh yeah,
there still is a cyst in Claire’s liver we will have to watch….. forever.”
I am still
waiting to read the entire final radiology report whenever it gets posted. Until then, I will just keep cramming new,
fun memories in my brain! It’s more fun
that way!
Love,
The Scott Family
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