Thursday, April 9, 2009

Finding Out it was Cancer

Once Dee was in the ER, they quickly admitted her into the hospital. The first team (her hospital is an university one so everything is accomplished by a group of people) that met with her was the blood doctor's. Due to her counts, they believed that she had leukemia. They did a bone marrow biopsy which was extremely hard for Dee to endure. They tried the procedure in her hospital room, stating that it was easy, and they couldn't get through her hip bone. She was in excruciating pain and they still had to complete the biopsy. They took her to radiology and tried again, this time getting through. The bruises from this lasted her a year. They agreed that she had leukemia and moved her to the cancer floor.
When she got to the cancer floor, the team of doctor's running the floor at the time told her that they didn't agree with the leukemia diagnosis. They scheduled her for a surgery to removed the two biggest lymph nodes that were protruding out from under her chin. Before they could go through with the surgery they had to boost her platelets and red blood cells. They gave her multiple transfusions over the next two days and then they were able to preform the surgery. Once they had the lymph nodes they were able to declare that it was actually alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.

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