Dang CA-125

My mom's doctor ordered her to get a CA-125 blood test yesterday for routine reasons as she has this stupid tumor and a high test result is a marker for cancer.

Frustratingly, my mom's test results came back high.  Actually not just high, astronomically high.  Not a good indicator at all, considering the boat she's in.

The doc himself called her this morning with the results.

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All's Well that Ends Well

Finally a second post!  And boy, it's a doozy.

January had a rough start, that's for sure.  It's tough enough dealing with the end of the holiday season, hubby going back to work more days than he's off, family leaving or leaving family; not to mention that January 1at & 13th are W's birthday and heaven day.  Then this year though, a couple of days before W's heaven day, my mom called to say that her doctor had found a 16 cm tumor in her abdomen and she was being sent for further testing.  Then a couple of days later she called to say that in the middle of her testing they had found "nodules" on her lungs and she was being sent for further scans of her chest.

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