My mom went to see a different oncologist thursday They have set the full body scan for next friday to see if the cancer has spread. If it hasn't she will have surgery to remove it on the 17th. They will go in and take it out and there is a 90% chance that it has spread to the thyroid. If it has they will remove those while they are there. That controls hormones and proteins so she would be on medication the rest of her life. There is also a major nerve that runs through that part of her face so she might lose feeling on that side and have a droopy eyebrow and eyelid. Her neck will be a little sunken in so if they get it all they may go back later and put in a nerve from her ankle and fatty tissue to make it look and work right. Then she will have radiation.
If the cancer has spread below the neckline then there will be no surgery. It will be too late. She will just have chemo. It has grown so quickly that it is entirely possible that it has spread that far. My dad won't even think about that and I guess no one else will either. But I'm afraid it will be too late. They said it's already between stages 3 and 4. I'm afraid I'll lose her.
It's not fair. If we lose her it's just not fair. My sister is 30. She has had my mother for way longer than I ever will. And Brent is only 14. How is that fair? It's his freshman yr of high school. It's my senior yr! This is supposed to be one of the best years of my life. Well I've yet to see any of the grandness of being a senior. I'm afraid I'm never going to. I'm more scared than I've ever been in my whole life.
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