September 12, 2011 my mom was diagnosed with stomach cancer AKA Gastric Cancer or Adenocarcinoma of the stomach. After the shock and panic phaze of hearing the news that your loved one has cancer, survival mode seems to kick in and that is when you want all the answers to all the questions. You want to figure out how to lick this thing, but most of all you want to know that everything is going to be OK. Let's see, we are now on day 5 of this journey and I can honestly say the only thing we know for certain is that my mom has a cancerous tumor. However, answers will be coming to us soon. Today, September 16th, my mom had a CT Scan to find out whether or not the cancer has spread to any other part of her body. We will not know the results until Monday. On that day you can be certain that me, my sister, my dad, my bro-in-law, my hubby and especially my mom will all, litterally, be sitting by the phone, in her apartment, waiting for the phone to ring. It is kind of like that saying, "A watched pot never boils." I can tell you it sometimes feels like a watched PHONE never rings!
Well, friends and family, our special request from you is that you will please use the power of prayer to help get my mom through this scary time. Whatever lay ahead, we all believe that God is surrounding us with his love and grace. What His plans are for my mom, we do not know, but what we do know is that He is always with us.
For Your Information
Pam has been anemic for just over a year. Eight months ago she had a procedure called an endoscopy (a tube that is used to look at the upper GI tract, including stomach) to see if she was bleeding from somewhere. The test came back normal. Pams anemia got worse and she has been getting iron infusions every 4 weeks to keep her ferritin levels up. Recently she had a test where she swallowed a pill (about the size of large vitamin) that had a camera built into it. The pictures showed old blood in her small intestine. So, another endoscopy was ordered. The results to that test were immediate. And my mom was informed shortly after that she had stomach cancer. Which we now know is causing her anemia and some other symptoms she has been exhibiting, including fullness, stomach pains, and unexplained weight loss. Truth be told, none of us exspected this, least of all my mom.
