Thank you all but need your help

Hey Jan...

the correct spelling for your AHA word is French, spelled Voila, with the "v" pronounce as a "w".

And for Wehavenot...there are lots of things.  You'll find that you have nodes, cysts, spots, in various organs when you start having regular follow up CT's.  I, too, thought I had a gall stone, because the symptoms I was experiencing were related to the kidney cancer that had mets to the Liver.

Prior to a new Dr. assuming the practice where I went, the "Michelin Man" (very overweight) I had for a PC Dr., said how are you?, your labs look OK and come back next year.  Never ordered a UA.  My new Doc in 2006 ordered full UA, CBC, CMP and an Ultrasound.  And then I got the news no one ever wants to hear.  This year, I've passed the 11 years since Dx., and 8 years since recurrence.  So there is Hope with a "H".

Prior to my second surgery for cancer, the anesthesiologists and cardiologists went over me with a fine toothed comb and I found out I have a mild mitral valve prolapse (heart murmur) and a left branch bundle block (synchronicity in pumping).  Neither has ever caused a problem for me and I was very active in sports most of my life; but it sort of explains why I wasn't a distance runner. Ah, the age of Discovery comes after 60 years of age.

And yes, I'm glad I'm not in Texas.  But lightening fires in Oregon are causing all sorts of destruction.  The Chetco Fire just north of the Cal. border is at 100,000 acres.  And there are two new ones bringing smoke into my office as I type this.  They're over 100 miles away.  So on that note, guess I'll go home from work and take my asthma meds.

After you have your consult and can ask questions, you should have a better understanding of what is to come.

Good luck and keep us posted.  ps. Have stayed in Killarny twice and traveled throught out the area; also went to Wexford and along the southern coast.  And somewhere in my DNA it says I'm 19% Irish, although I haven't figured out which side, yet.

donna_lee