A Diagnosis

[hrj]

My mom has her diagnosis from the biopsy -- a lot faster this time than last year. This time it's your common garden-variety myeloma rather than something exotic that they have to send off to the specialists to examine. Of course, I've immediately gone off and googled lots of myeloma sites to stuff my brain full of entirely too much information on the topic. Of course there'll be more testing before a solid prognosis and treatment plan is available -- I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the fact that it doesn't seem to have been apparent in all the scans she had last year for the spinal thing means it's been identified at a fairly early stage. She says not to worry about her. Hah!

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[xrian.livejournal.com]

Bummer. Yeah, a lot of cancer thingys are now more or less controllable, so we wind up living with them for years (like diabetes) rather than dying the first time they hit us -- which would be much more tidy, but a lot less fun. This IS an improvement.

As for not worrying -- well, it's hard not to, even if it's stuff you have no control over. About all you can do is to try to keep directing the energy toward things you can do something about. Letting go is never easy.