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Russ and I went back to school today for a half-day. I had to really
do some talking to myself to give it a try. Luckily my principal is so
supportive and has told us to take as much time as we need. That
motivates me to try harder. I had two goals for today--visit all of the
classrooms that had our resource students and introduce Russ to the
second grade teachers and his new students. The
second was to meet with our principal for her to bring us up to date on
all of the meetings we missed. We did both of those and by 11:30 I was
exhausted mentally and physically. It was so good to see everyone.
After lunch we headed for Oxford to the hospital to get a copy of Lynda's records and copies of her xrays, CAT scans and anything else that was done. My main goal was to see the tumors they found in her abdomen. Everyone was really kind and a radiologist took time to interpret the CAT scan and show us how large the tumor was. The tumor was massive. It most likely began as ovarian cancer but there's no way to know for sure. It had grown to her upper abdomen. Apparently it was a fast growing type of cancer and if it was ovarian cancer the doctor said many people don't experience pain which is exactly what this mother wanted to hear. I have no idea if the blood clots in her leg were related to the cancer but according to the records we read, that physician felt she had probably had some clots in that leg for years.
It helped to see the scans and at the same time it broke my heart. It was a full day. I'll try again tomorrow.
After lunch we headed for Oxford to the hospital to get a copy of Lynda's records and copies of her xrays, CAT scans and anything else that was done. My main goal was to see the tumors they found in her abdomen. Everyone was really kind and a radiologist took time to interpret the CAT scan and show us how large the tumor was. The tumor was massive. It most likely began as ovarian cancer but there's no way to know for sure. It had grown to her upper abdomen. Apparently it was a fast growing type of cancer and if it was ovarian cancer the doctor said many people don't experience pain which is exactly what this mother wanted to hear. I have no idea if the blood clots in her leg were related to the cancer but according to the records we read, that physician felt she had probably had some clots in that leg for years.
It helped to see the scans and at the same time it broke my heart. It was a full day. I'll try again tomorrow.
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