Stephanie sent me the following update for posting here:
"Hello, all...I am now home from the doctor. It has been a long day, and the news is not the best. I have a rare type of non hodgkins lymphoma, stage 4. They still need to do an MRI of the brain and a lumbar puncture to make sure that it has not spread to the brain or spinal fluid. They also need to do an echo cardiogram to check my heart, and once these are done, they will start a chemo regimen. The PET/CT scan shows that the cancer is throughout my whole body and there are lots of bones involved. Thank you for your prayers. With much love, Stef"
Many of you have been following Stephanie's FaceBook Page and have seen the outpouring of love, prayers, and well wishes folk have sent her way. We add ours. Stephanie has a fine team of physicians plotting out her care and treatment. We, too, hold her in our hearts and in our prayers.
In other news in the same category, Sue became very ill yesterday, sleepy, unable to walk, generally bad. By 5:15 pm her fever was 103.3 degrees, so I called her primary care physician for the second time that day. Her orders: take Sue to the emergency room by ambulance. By 6:00 pm She was in a bay in Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the Central West End. The ER was bedlam, so much so it looked like ones in Iraq I've seen on television. By11:00 pm the ER physician had decided to admit Sue, but there were no rooms available. Finally today around 6:00 pm she was moved to a room.
So far, there is no definitive diagnosis of this problem. Certain possibilities have been ruled out, but Sue is getting antibiotics.
"Hello, all...I am now home from the doctor. It has been a long day, and the news is not the best. I have a rare type of non hodgkins lymphoma, stage 4. They still need to do an MRI of the brain and a lumbar puncture to make sure that it has not spread to the brain or spinal fluid. They also need to do an echo cardiogram to check my heart, and once these are done, they will start a chemo regimen. The PET/CT scan shows that the cancer is throughout my whole body and there are lots of bones involved. Thank you for your prayers. With much love, Stef"
Many of you have been following Stephanie's FaceBook Page and have seen the outpouring of love, prayers, and well wishes folk have sent her way. We add ours. Stephanie has a fine team of physicians plotting out her care and treatment. We, too, hold her in our hearts and in our prayers.
In other news in the same category, Sue became very ill yesterday, sleepy, unable to walk, generally bad. By 5:15 pm her fever was 103.3 degrees, so I called her primary care physician for the second time that day. Her orders: take Sue to the emergency room by ambulance. By 6:00 pm She was in a bay in Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the Central West End. The ER was bedlam, so much so it looked like ones in Iraq I've seen on television. By11:00 pm the ER physician had decided to admit Sue, but there were no rooms available. Finally today around 6:00 pm she was moved to a room.
So far, there is no definitive diagnosis of this problem. Certain possibilities have been ruled out, but Sue is getting antibiotics.
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