No worries, it’s confusing since Mom’s cancer mimics bladder cancer even though it started in the ovaries. And well, the bladder has been causing most of the issues recently. And there are definitely some parallels to our stories, even if the primary cancer is different.
I am so very glad that things are going well for your husband! I hope he continues to improve!
Unfortunately, things did not get better for my mom after the nephrostomies. In addition to bleeding from her bladder, she’d started bleeding from her vagina (which at 75 should not be a thing). The cancer had very likely moved into her vagina. She had surgery on Saturday. There was a lot of blood loss and complications (including the cancer having moved into her colon as well). They removed her bladder which was very distended and riddled with tumors. But then they had to suspend the surgery and leave Mom intubated and sedated for a couple of days to get her stable before they could go back in and finish the surgery (which now included a hopefully reversible colostomy).
Mom seems to be doing well and when I saw her today, her biggest complaint was that her throat hurt from the intubation, other than that, she said she felt okay-ish. And she definitely made some jokes and I thought that despite the whole major surgery thing, her face looked more relaxed than it had for a while. She has a long road of recovery ahead, of course. And a lot to get used to (urostomy and colostomy). And well, again, it is a metastasized cancer that is apparently very aggressive - there was no evidence of cancer in the bladder in early December. So now we enjoy whatever time we have left.
