It is May...Like you did not already know that eh? May finds us in transition. Shari had a CAT scan on her spine to update the doctor on the pain in her lower back. Well, the Radiologist, reporting on the images noticed a small tumor on her adrenal gland (left) which has overshadowed the back problem. We were sent to a specialist who ran numerous blood and urine tests to find that the tumor is causing two major glitches in her hormone levels. One is symptomatic and one can kill a person. The latter is the one they are focusing on. So, the surgeon has scheduled her to have the left adrenal gland removed (including the tumor) which normally are not cancerous. The pre-treatment is to have her on a medication for four weeks to normalize the effects of the gland bringing us to May 14 for the surgery. It should be an easy operation but the following 24-72 hours will require ICU to keep control of her blood pressure as it will drop to deadly levels after the removal of the gland/tumor. Within that time the untouched right gland (which has been at rest, basking in the knowledge that the left one has been working overtime making 2 or 3 times the hormones a body requires. Once it "wakes up" things should return to normal...whatever that was.
Shari has suffered symptoms for months or years, it is hard to say. Keep her / us in your prayers and I will keep you posted in this blog.
Interesting facts are that Shari has been feeling poorly for sometime and we had decided to sell the motorhome because travel has not interested her nor me. We told ourselves that 10 years is about all the traveling we wanted to do by RV and that time is up. We shall see how things work out after surgery.
Otherwise, all is well and we are enjoying life as usual. I will post an image or two of our plants in bloom if I can remember how to do that.
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| Yellow Hibiscus |
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| Lavender "Rose of Sharon" Hibiscus |
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| Lantana "Butterfly Bush" |
