Alison's primary care manager changed (without notification) and we've been having difficulties with authorization with her care. So in order to ensure the new doctor knows she's not paperwork, but a real person (and a cute one at that), I arranged for a meeting. It's Tuesday morning, and the nurse asked if I could bring some of her files in so the doctor could review them.
Side-step a moment to allow me to confess that I haven't looked at Alison's medical paperwork since we went to Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa in December. Instead, we've simply been getting the summary from the doctor.
Okay, so I asked for all of the paperwork to include the CT scan images from December 25 to July 11Th. And when our great paperwork extraordinaire Natasha finished with the copy machine, Alison picked up the paperwork.
That's when she called me at work. It turns out the cancer spread in an area we didn't know about. Jarring. I guess just reading the details gives you a much better picture of the way it is, and as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So since the doctors has used about 4 (Your cancer is stable), we learned a lot in a small amount of time.
I won't divulge the details because we haven't spoken with the doctor yet, but it spread more in January and February than we were aware of. She's still feeling great. She's still pain free. She's just got another nodule that I lay in bed at night and think about. Some have shrunk slightly, some have grown. Overall impression is that it is a stable metatastic disease, and we'll continue the same chemotherapy regime.
Side-step a moment to allow me to confess that I haven't looked at Alison's medical paperwork since we went to Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa in December. Instead, we've simply been getting the summary from the doctor.
Okay, so I asked for all of the paperwork to include the CT scan images from December 25 to July 11Th. And when our great paperwork extraordinaire Natasha finished with the copy machine, Alison picked up the paperwork.
That's when she called me at work. It turns out the cancer spread in an area we didn't know about. Jarring. I guess just reading the details gives you a much better picture of the way it is, and as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So since the doctors has used about 4 (Your cancer is stable), we learned a lot in a small amount of time.
I won't divulge the details because we haven't spoken with the doctor yet, but it spread more in January and February than we were aware of. She's still feeling great. She's still pain free. She's just got another nodule that I lay in bed at night and think about. Some have shrunk slightly, some have grown. Overall impression is that it is a stable metatastic disease, and we'll continue the same chemotherapy regime.
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