Liver check-up

This morning I had my appointment with the liver surgeon as a follow-up to my surgery four and a half weeks ago. We got to the hospital in Guildford about 45 mins early thanks to little traffic on the drive down from London. Of course this meant that the doctors in the clinic were running an hour late!! There was one particularly disgruntled woman who kept complaining about having been there since 9am (it was 10.30 by then). Turns out her appointment time was 10.20!!! I think you just have to go with the flow a bit when it comes to waiting for hospital appointments. The doctors aren't intentionally leaving people waiting. They are generally just timetabled to do too much in too little time I think. Anyway, whilst we were waiting (Dad came with me again - thanks Dad!) my assigned clinical nurse specialist, Laura, came by and asked how it was all going. She told me that as far as she knew all was fine and that she'd not see me again!!! Well, the doctor (one of the registrars on my surgeon's team) called us through. He told us that the whole tumour had been removed. It had been tested and was shown to have been cancerous - most likely a secondary tumour to the bowel cancer. Apparently, there are times that it comes out that the tumour is not cancerous but it's better to take out the growth than leave it!! They don't biopsy such things, not just because of the risk of bleeding but also because the act of biopsying the tumour can lead to a 5-20% risk of the cancer spreading!! Yikes! Glad they didn't biopsy! The doctor took a look at my scar and felt my tummy while I coughed and said it all looked good. He is referring me back to my oncologist for possibly more chemo. They don't want to see me again at Guildford unless there are any further problems with my liver, so hopefully that's it for trips down the A3, well unless there's shopping and not hospitals involved!!! :-)

It's such a relief not to have to worry about that anymore. Now for cracking on with my last round of chemo!!

On another note, anyone else at a loss as to what to do now the Olympics has finished??!! Bring on the Paralympics!!

Xxxx