health update

[hypatia42]

mom has two different types of breast cancer. All of the lymph nodes they took out showed presence of tumor cells. Friday she gets a port put in for her coming treatments. Monday she gets PET and bone scans to find out if the cancer has spread further than they thought

Comments

[libwitch]

It is beyond shitty and yes, very stressful when someone you love is going through things and you are very limited in what you can do to actually fix the problem. ....

But it is almost worse when the person you are worrying about tells you they don't want you to stress about them. Because we love people, so stressing about them is what we do.

So you stress about your mom, and let Mike stress about you =-)

And get three to a GI specialist, and yes, as needed to a doctor to take care mental health too. Yes, the mental is probably making they physical worse, but it is always good to make sure nothing is wrong at either. I am very glad they *haven't* found anything wrong so far - the emergency testing is always so scary.

Hang in there. Eat. Drink the right things. Try to sleep. let others fret too.

[hypatia42]

Thank you. I will try to remember this. <3 Thanks for the birthday card too.

[sherwood21]

I am glad the colonoscopy was normal. I took Mom for hers this week also - same as you, normal and healthy. Which is good, but still a bit frustrating to not know why things are awry.

One of the mental health people from the prison once told me that there were three things that were really effective in treating depression: medication, counseling, and exercise. The trick was that (in most cases) any combination of any two of the three were equally effective.

Also, while I agree with the above statement that the mental can make the physical worse, the reverse is also true. And not just because you feel crappy and that makes you sad, but because all of your systems are interconnected.

I love you bunches and I hope for all the things to feel better. <3

[hypatia42]

I went ahead and made myself a psych eval appointment. One foot in front of the other.