Today Is Not Another Black Monday!
Today I brought my mother to see her regular doctor for a second opinion on her cancer diagnosis. He declared the growth in her thyroid was at best 50 percent malignant! So there is a fair chance it can be benign?
How could my ENT doctor friend be 99 percent sure her growth was cancerous? This was the question I asked all afternoon.
At home, I called another doctor friend. He said with a firmness betraying a certain concern about the first diagnosis, “Unless there is a comprehensive test, and it is on paper there is cancer, I will go to the other extreme. There is no cancer! Not even 50 percent! See a thyroid specialist!”
After one week of despair, suddenly it was more hopeful! There was always hope of course. But studied hope from the medical world was something else. I was confused but took it all in my stride. I have heard worst stories. I called my ENT doctor friend. He was still confident of his diagnosis.
Last Monday I took the diagnosis from a doctor as the ultimate medical pronouncement. A second opinion was more a routine next step. Today, the medical facts are up in the air. Today is not another black Monday. It is a day for more questions.
Kirk Douglas presented an Academy Award today. He is old but agile. I hope his son is recovering well from throat cancer. My mother questioned the need to undergo such extensive tests for her cough. I told her the facts just short of the cancer diagnosis. I don’t know how to tell her. We will take it one day at a time.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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这个消息的确让人松了一口气!
27日所拍的照片,可以看出云妈妈精神很好,心情也很愉快,我想她应该是一个乐观的人。
听人说,老人家到了80多或90多岁以后,会变得像小孩一样,喜欢被人哄,不妨试一下,多讲些 “甜甜” 的话,哄云妈妈开心,这对她的身心或许有帮助。
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不知道有没有人告诉过云妈妈?她有一头白得发亮的美丽的银发!那是很少见的。
我的妈妈就不曾拥有过,但她有的是柔软乌黑发亮的漂亮短发,那是在她年轻的时候。到她年老时,它却变得亦灰亦白且暗淡无光,看到别人漂亮的白发,才想到妈妈可能是因为中年后长期服药的结果,即使是那样我也应该美言她几句才是,可是当时的我却忽略了。。。。。