Vibes for my Sister-In-Law please!

I need some vibes for my Sister-In-Law. Well, she and my brother are divorced, but I still consider her family.

She's been off work for about 8 years with one health problem after another. Five years ago she had a tumor the size of a small orange removed from her brain: it was benign.

A couple months ago she found out that she has benign tumors in her colon. While they are benign, these tumors are at high risk of becoming cancerous unless they are removed. However there are so many and some are so large, that they can't just remove the tumors, they have to remove her whole colon and give her a colostomy bag She did get a second opinion and that is the opinion of the second doctor as well.

She was supposed to go in for surgery today, but she went to her doctor a couple days ago and her CT scan results were in. They found a tumor on each of her kidneys. While the doctors are hopeful that they are benign, from the CT they appear "unusual" and the doctors have told her that it's possible that they could be cancerous.

So now her colorectomy surgery is on hold and the surgery to go in and explore and remove one of the kidney tumors is pushed ahead. They are hoping to get her in on an emergency basis in early January. They plan on removing and testing one kidney tumor and if it turns out to be benign, they are going to assume that the other one on the other kidney is benign too. If that is the case, they will schedule her for the colorectomy surgery, where they will go and do a cryo procedure on the other remaining kidney tumor at the same time.

If the tumor isn't benign, it will mean her having to have 3 separate surgeries, and undergoing chemo and radiation, and possibly the rest of her life on dialysis if her kidneys are damaged.

She also has a Hepatic Hemangioma which is also a benign tumor, but it's causing her pain on her liver and also needs to be removed at some point.

So any vibes and prayers that you can send out to her would be greatly appreciated.

Poor thing. She'll be in my prayers. Keep us updated on how things go for her!

Thats a lot for one person to have to deal with.
Sending so many vibes her way

Having to deal with all that, especially around the holdiays would be so hard....I hope she gets some good news

Lots of prayers and vibes coming your SIL way..

I'm sending lots and lots of prayers and vibes her way... Hope all goes well for her.

The poor, poor woman. I hope she receives some good news soon. It's wonderful that she still has you as family; this must be so incredibly hard for her. Sending loads of good wishes &

Sending mega prayers and vibes out to your SIL & your entire family Bless you for still being family in heart & spirit, no matter the legalities

Oh my goodness! That poor woman. Many good vibes coming her way. She has so much to deal with.

Well, the news isn't good

The biopsy results came back and the tumor they removed from the right kidney is cancerous.

She had another CT scan a week ago and on the left kidney one of the 2 tumors on it has doubled in size over the last few months. They also noticed that the tumor they removed from the right kidney is starting to grow back. Plus there is lymph node involvement. They see a lymph node next to her aorta where it connects to the kidney blood vessels. That lymph node wasn't there in the previous CT scan.

She has another test of some kind tomorrow.

She had gone to her family doctor on Friday last week and after talking to her for a bit, the doctor got on the phone to the surgeon who told her to send my sister-in-law to the hospital for admission and some further testing.

She went to the ER and sat there for 2 hours. Once she was in the actual assessment room, the surgeon's resident came to see her and was blabbering about how urgent it was that they do aggressive chemotherapy immediately. Bonnie had no clue what he was talking about because she hadn't gotten any test results back as yet.

Finally on Tuesday after spending 4 days in the hospital waiting to see her surgeon, he came and told her about the biopsy results. The resident had been right, sort of. But he was wrong about the aorta being involved. It was only a lymph node, not the actual blood vessel itself, at least not yet.

She's looking at further surgery, maybe next week.

The thing about renal cancers is that the sooner they are caught, the better, because they are rapidly spreading. And the type of cancer she has is highly aggressive, and the fact that the tumor they removed a month ago is already starting to show signs of returning, and the fact that there is a lymph node involved are not good signs

They knew about these growths back in November and they kept bumping her on the OR slate for 3 months until my nephew called the College of Physicians and Surgeons and told them about what was going on with his mom and how she was being bumped.

I don't know if it was caught early enough, but even if it was, the estimated 5 year survival rate is only about 60%. If it's spread, she's looking at measuring her life in months, maybe a year or so

I am so sorry! Poor girl! Many many vibes for her treatment to go well, the surgeries to be successful, and for her to be strong to fight!

I'm so sorry to hear what's happenned. Plenty of and prayers for your sister-in-law for her surgeries to go well and treatment to go smoothly.

Linda I am soo sorry to hear the news about your sister-in-law. This must be such a devistating blow right now I will keep her in my prayers.

Bless her heart... I hope a miracle appears for her. vibes:

Awww Linda. Your SIL is in my thoughts - as is the whole family.

So sorry to hear that! Your SIL is in my prayers.

for your SIL. Cancer sucks!

I am so sorry to hear this. For you SIL

Bless her heart. I will be praying for her.