My mom has a brain tumor....*update*

[NellaBean]

My grandfather had brain tumors years ago. Maybe 25 to 30 years ago? they removed some but could not get them all out. So they had to leave those ones in. And he is still alive and kicking now almost 30 years later. So I know how scary hearing brain tumors is, but its not always as scary as it sounds. Not to mention treatments nowadays are I'm sure much better than 30 years ago.

On a sidenote, a coworker of mine started getting horrible headaches recently.....ended up in the ER they were so bad. To make a long story short she had a cat scan and they 'saw something'. She still doesnt have any answers other than they don't believe its a tumor. Still has severe headaches and is on all sorts of drugs. She is a newly divorced single mom of two who has no family in state, who has only been at this job for 6 months. It's scary.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Thank you!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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[Rare Feathers Farm]

Thanks everyone...I just got off the phone with her....she doesn't know anything--other than it's in the back of her head. My sister is there with her now...the doctor is supposed to call her back tomorrow....

She said that she went in today for the CT scan and when she got there, the receptionist gave her a clip board and a piece of paper to fill out. She said she saw the receptionist put a piece of paper behind the paper my mom was to fill out.

After she filled out the paper, my mom flipped it up to see if there was more to be filled out and saw a sheet with the reason for the CT and it said "tumor." She said as it was sinking in, the guy came out, called her name and she went back in for the scan. Afterwards, she was told they found a "tumor" in the back of her head. She said she was trying to absorb that and the guy kind of rushed her out of the room and said someone would be calling her.

She got no other information about size, treat-ability, type, treatments, etc.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

So sorry. Sending happy thoughts your way.


Sorry your mom was rushed out...they tend to do that.

 

[Mattemma]

Healings for your mom!

 

[Nicole01]

Oh, I'm so very sorry!

 

[WingingIt]

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OK, let me share this with you in hopes (and prayers) that this is the same thing that has happened to your Mom. My husband was having that we (I, mainly) thought were gall bladder attacks. The doctor was sort of blowing it off because by the time they'd get him appt. a day or five after the attack, he'd be fine. Duh! So I pushed that I wanted some testing done to figure it out. They did blood work and an u/s. The u/s found a 'something' in his liver. So they sent him for a scan. They have to put a reason for requesting the scan, what they suspect, and to be honest, they have a MUCH more likely chance of insurance approving it if it's something bad. (of course we didn't find this out until afterwards)

Hubby had some 'extra' papers on his paper work, too. They all said LIVER CANCER. So he walked in thinking he had maybe a fat blob in his liver and before he even hit the scanner was convinced he had liver cancer, that everyone else knew it, and no one had bothered to tell us. Afterwards I called the doctor's office and that's when they told me that it's for coding for approval from insurance and the hospital. I then called the scanning dept/co and threw a fit telling them they should NOT put that stuff on the paper work, people BELIEVE IT!

Just because the scan paper work said that, does NOT mean anything, there's no way they could have KNOWN there was one before the scan, just suspected, which is what they use to get it approved. I can tell you that having them tell you they found 'something' doesn't necessarily mean crap, either. As we've been dealing with various tests and scans for DH we've been told by several doctors/radiologists that almost everyone has some abnormal *thing* in them somewhere that, if you never have a scan of that area, you'd never know was there and does no harm. One even showed us a scan of his own leg where he'd injured his knee but they found a big mass in his thigh on the scan and said it had probably been there his whole life and he didn't know it. Biopsy showed it was just normal muscle cells that had grown together in an abnormal way.

OK, enough rambling. I want you to know I'm sorry your Mom has something going on, I'm praying it's nothing serious and I'm also praying for you and that baby.

Oh - I'm not on FB, but I'd cut Mom some slack on that posting bit because she was probably too much in shock to call and say those words, you know?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Sending good thoughts for mom and you.

 

[sfw2]

I agree with what many previous posters have said. Every tumor is NOT cancer. One of my daughter's friends recently had surgery to remove a large brain tumor. NOT cancer, but it was putting pressure on her brain, and causing terrible pain. She is home, and doing GREAT.

for you, and prayers that they call your mom with more details, soon!