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jenugl
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 Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Hi everyone. I lot of you know me already from the brain cancer forum. Unfortunately we have just found out that Andrews mother has bladder cancer. She has just got back from Brisbane (a few thousand KMs away) after having tumour removed. We find out next week all test results to organise the next stage of treatment. All we know is that it is invasive cancer at this stage. I will now have to learn all I can about this disease after having learnt alot about brain cancer. Anyone with any knowledge please let me know. I will be able to shed some more light on things once we get all results in. Love to all.
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ksplat
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Dear Jen
I am so very sorry to hear about your MIL's Cancer diagnosis. I pray the surgery has been successful in removing the cancer completely & then I assume chemo & radiotherapy will follow? Will she be able to have these treatments up in Nth Qld, it would be a terrible drain on her & you all if she had to travel back to Brisneyland for follow up treatments!
Thinking of you & my prayers are with you all.
Big hugs to you too! So glad to have you back here!
Cheers, Angie.
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brainman
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Oh Jen, I am so sorry about Andrew's mother! What a load your family is having to carry. I will learn about Bladder Cancer with you  .
As always, you and your family are in my thought and prayers.
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jenugl
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Hi all. I just started a new topic and realised I had one going already. Anyway - thank goodness for cut and paste.. As some of you already know my MIl was diagnosed with bladder cancer. She started with blood in her urine back in April. After serveral test they sent her down to Brisbane for surgery to remove tumour, she opted to go under general anesthetic for this procedure. Apparently you can have an epidural but as she had heard scary stories about this (back problems afterwards) she went for the knock me out way. She stayed 3 days (I think) in hospital - result cancer. Her and my husband went back down to Brisbane last Wednesday 16/07 and she went in for surgery Friday. She was on a liquid diet from Wednesday. Operation started early Fri morning and she finally got into ICU around 5:00pm Fri afternoon. Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon she was transferred back to the ward, when Andrew visited her the nurses kicked him out as her blood pressure had dropped really low. After they talked to the drs they pumped her with antibiotics and some other stuff (not sure what it is yet). Andrew (my husband) reported after seeing her that she is feeling fantastic, they have given her an epidural (not sure what she thinks of that - due to her earlier fears, but I'm sure that she won't want to give it up too soon). They also have a machine massaging her legs (to help with blood flow I believe). All this is going to stop today sometime (well the epidural at least ) and then I would think reality will hit in a very painful way. The operation was to take out her bladder and use part of her bowel to attach a bag on the outside of her. She is 70 years of age and quite a big lady. She had lost a fair bit of weight (due to dieting) before she was diagnosed but still a bit of a worry for surgeons as they said they have to attach part of her bowel through the fat layer to exit the outside of her stomach and the more fat there is the harder it is. We'll hope and pray that it all goes well. I will keep you up to date as I hear things from hubby. It is hard being away from them (Brisbane is a about 1700 KMs from where I am, but that's the price we pay for living in paradise up here in sunny Cairns (Far North Tropical part of Australia). I think my brain isn't working to well this morning. This is about the 3rd or 4th time I've edited this post. The surgeon reported that everything around bladder looks good but we will wait for results to be sure that cancer hasn't spread.
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jenugl
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Update time.... MIL is still in hospital. After her initial feeling of wellness she hit rock bottom. All was going well until one night she apparently was crippled over with pain, vomiting all night long and high temp. When Andrew saw her the next day she told him she thought that was the end and she was going to die (she is a pretty tough lady so that was saying something) Drs worked out that her bowels had shut down and they put a tube down to pump all the bile out of her stomach. I can't remember the figures but what a normal person has in their stomach she had quadruple or more in hers. She still has this tube and after some pretty bad days she is now feeling a lot more comfortable. Anyway she has changed a couple of bags by herself, with very shaking hands and a lot of nervousness but she said it wasn't that bad. They did a scan using a dye to make sure everything was intact and nothing was leaking. Got the OK today and apparently everything is going well. They got the pathology results back as well and they have told her that she has cancer in her lympth nodes (yep - I've been swearing like a trooper) anyway they said they will talk to her about treatment in 1 to 2 months as they said there is no way she would be able to handle chemo at this stage. That's all for now. Love to all.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:57 am Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Jen, thank you for the update on you MIL. I am so sorry she had cancer. I cannot imagine how overwhelmed you and Andrew must be.
You, Andrew, and his mother continue in my thoughts and prayers.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Hi all. Latest update - MIL is still in hospital - 5 weeks tomorrow. I went down to Brisbane to surprise Andrew and is mum last Saturday, BOY what a surprise they got - it was great. Anyway MIL has had a lot of up and down days. She kept getting some severe pain which after lots of different tests over a week they worked out that she had an abcyst in the site of one of her drains that they had taken out earlier - bad news is they didn't pick it up until it had burst, so on Sundary night she went back in for surgery to take away quite a bit of dead tissue and infection (they had explained that the antibiotics that they had been giving her would not circulate around the area where there was no blood flow). I just hear that she has had her first meals today in 5 weeks. They had been giving her a feed bag (stuff they put through what they call a pick line). Because they couldn't close the wound where they took out the infection they have been packing every day (ouch!!). Apparently tomorrow they are going to start using a vacuum seal bandage so they don't have to pack it anymore. Anyway things are starting to look like they are going in the right direction and hopefully she will be out of hospital soon. The bad news is once she has recovered from all of this she will have to start chemo treatment to fight the cancer that is in her lymph nodes. I am counting down the days until they are back up here. Love to all.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Dear Jen
Well your poor MIL has really been through it! I hope & pray that she has passed her "low" point & will start to get back on top of things now.
My prayers & thoughts are with you all.
Cheers, Angie.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Jen, I am sorry to hear that your mother is still in the hospital.
I can just feel how good your surprise visit was for you, Andrew, and his mother  .
All of you are still in my thoughts and prayers.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Hi all. Long time since I've been on the forum. Just thought I'd give you all an upate on MIL. Since she got back from Brisbane (which took 7 weeks) she then spent 3 weeks in Cairns hospital. Anyway, she got more infections and another abcess and lung infection. Well she finally got out of hospital for a few weeks and was put back in two weeks ago as yet again another infection. She had surgery to remove this and was going alright until this morning. We went in to see her and found nurses and doctors all around her bed. Apparently she got up to go and have a shower and all of a sudden she couldn't breathe. She was on oxygen when we got there and she had already had an (for the life of me I can't think of what it is called) heart test using all the wires. Think my brain is in shutdown mode. Anyway they have done multiple blood tests, chest xrays, ct scan. They don't know what is wrong with her yet. We were hoping to hear from dr but will have to wait until tomorrow now. She also is having controlling her left arm and it is really shaky. God this poor lady has been through so much, I really hope they can get to the bottom of this and she can live her life. They also discovered that hew bowel is leaking, but cannot operate at the moment for fear of massive wide spread infection - they discovered this last week before all this started today. Anyway, love to all. Been thinking of you all. And have been reading up every now and then, but haven't been able to get involved.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Oh, Jen, this is terrible news  . I hope she did not have a clot but that is what is sounds like to me. I think you are talking about a 12 lead EKG to check her heart. Is she alert now? Poor lady, I know she has been thought a lot.
You, Andrew, and your MIL are in my thoughts and prayers this Sunday (for me). I do hope you get good news from her doctor. Please, keep us up to date on her condition. How is Andrew doing?
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1992 Astrocytoma grade 2, left motor strip
2005 Recurrence this time said to be an Oligodendoglioma grade 3, same location.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Mother In Law diagnosed with bladder cancer |
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Hi all, Latest updat on MIL. Went in to see her this morning. She had actually had a seizure the previous day and another one during the night so she was in coronary care. At around 11:00am this morning I went in to see her and if there was any news as to what was going on and while I was talking with her they laid the bed flat down so they could use the slip sheet to slide her back up the bed and she started another seizure while I was there. Drs and nurses came from everywhere. They worked on her for about 30 - 45 minutes and then transfered her to ICU as they couldn't stablise her. They took her down for a cat scan with all the emergency equipemnt but are unable at the moment to do an MRI as this involves going to anotherr hospital, which is only about 10mins away but they said the risk of moving her when she is so unstable outweighs doing the MRI. At this stage they are not sure what it is as CT was inconclusive. They are tending to think that maybe the cancer has spread to her brain as they said that a few of her lymph nodes and some nodes in her lung look suspicious. We have spent all day at the hospital and have only just got home. She is now settled and hasn't had another fit as they had given her dilantin. It was so scary while all this was happening and Andrew was 20 minutes away at work so I had to phone him to tell him to come in. While I was waiting they called me into a room and said they wanted to talk with me and I thought that she had died. Now its just a waiting game. She is resting quite comfortably and obs look good so hopefully she will have a good night. Hospital are going to ring us if she takes a turn for the worse again. I really can't wait until they can do the MRI but am also scared of what they are going to find. Anyway I'm off to bed and try and get some sleep. Love to all. Please pray for her. Jen.
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