Bile duct stent infection, hospital wedding, and promising biopsy
- This topic has 4 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 9 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
Dear NTe and SM, congratulations on your marriage. It sounds like the chapel ceremony was just lovely and very touching for all that were present! So glad to hear that SM is now feeling better. Crossing my fingers for good results from the biopsies!
Debbie
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Brown. It sounds like you may have received the best wedding gift ever! Wishing and praying for the best news for you both. The wedding does not make the marriage, the couple does. Congratulations and wishing you both the very best.
Congratulations. I am so very happy for you. Despite all of the adverse events you and your “wife” have enjoyed a beautiful day. Hats off to you both.
I don’t think that anything beats the surgeon’s eyes, if he doesn’t feel the removed tissue looks to be malignant in nature then this is a wonderful sign. Fingers and everything crossed for the results to confirm the specialists opinion.Hugs to you and your wife,
MarionSo, after her initial ERCP and metal stent in her common bile duct, along with a 5 day hospital stay three weeks before our beach wedding, my SM spent two weeks out of the hospital. Due to severe pain, she ended up back in the hospital 5 days before our wedding. Blood tests revealed she had a probable blockage in her bile duct, again. Another endoscopy procedure removed her metal stent, and along with it came lots of puss and infected-looking stuff. Nasty infection. Two new plastic stents were installed. The good news? Her liver is again working and draining, and infection was cleared up with heavy antibiotics.
The bad news? That wedding we had planned on the beach? Not so much. BUT, the even better news? We were able to use the chapel in the hospital to get married on our wedding day anyway! Was an amazingly happy and positive experience, with all our immediate family there. Brigham and Women’s hospital staff were so helpful and treated us so wonderfully. Not a dry eye that day, and we learned a big lesson – marriage is not about all the wedding details and plans and all of that – the important thing is we were married on our wedding day, as we wanted to be! We did not want to put it off.
Fast forward now to yesterday. My WIFE (!!) had a laproscopic surgical biopsy of three areas on her peretenium of suspected metastesis that had lit up on the PET scan. As the surgeon pointed out, we need to wait a week for pathology to be sure, BUT……. he didn’t see ANYTHING that looked like tumors or nodules or cancercous stuff AT ALL! He said it looked very positive, and ended up more taking “random” biopsies of areas that had lit up on the PET scan, but he sounded very confident that this was positive news. He was very puzzled but said it could be scar tissue or something. This coming from an experienced cancer surgeon at Dana-Farber who probably sees this stuff every day. I am SO EXCITED! This is the FIRST bit of possible hope we have had! If this is true, if her pathology comes back negative, then they may be able to operate on her bile duct stricture!
- The forum ‘General Discussion’ is closed to new topics and replies.