On 3/2/2008
Bayla wrote:
Thank g-d my sister was released from the hospital today. She is on oral meds and we're hoping for good things. Her catheters were reversed and she now has internal stents. She is much happier with them and really hated those bags. I'm hoping that they won't clog, infect... I know it's so impossible to know what will happen but I'd love to hear from people who had unoperable klatskins as to what the course of the disease was. In any case, we're hoping that she'll have a stretch of quiet now. She was in the hospital 4+ weeks and that was without the real surgery being done.
My best to you and hoping to hear good things.
Hi Bayla,
Good to hear the stents have been placed. Your sister will hopefully soon feel better. Are the oral medicins to keep the bile easier flowing?
Concerning the start if the Klatskin tumor: nobody knows. As long as a kind of disease carries the name of the first person who examined it, you can be sure not much is known about it and no cure has been found. It is a very serious and quite rare type of cancer. As you can read from all these messages, a lot of people have lead a very healthy life and have hardly ever been ill. (As my Peter).
Keep hope in the fact that he, as he picked up his daily life routine, has allready got 7 months more than the specialists and we expected. Make every day you are still together a good day and enjoy the extra time.
I really love to keep hearing how your sister, your family and you are doing. When you don't feel strong, do not hesitate to e-mail. Though I am very grateful for our extra time, of course I also have my bad days (when Peter is not at home).
Love, iris.