medical status

[kirkcudbright]

Mother-in-law's pathology report looks good - very early stage lung cancer, they think they caught the whole thing, chemo/radiation probably not needed (1 month followup, then every 6 months for a couple years).

Dog has a UTI, which is better than kidney failure. (She's 13½, where greyhounds have a life expectancy of 10-12.)

Daughter is short, eligible for growth hormones, but we're just going to continue to feed her for the time being. OTOH, going in for the orthodontic "records appointment" tomorrow morning - last step before getting braces.

Wife and I are doing fine, thankyouverymuch.

Comments

[doctordidj.livejournal.com]

Hugs and best wishes while you deal with all this stuff. I've been trying for a quarter century to support my mother through leukemia and a kaliedoscope of skin cancers, and I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

Kylie has always been small, as I recall ... is this concern new?

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

no, she's just now at the age at which treatment is considered useful. (if you're in the bottom 5% it's considered acceptable; this is particularly true of women, who may as adults have adaptive problems using "normal-sized" things like cars, automatic machinery of various sorts, &c.)

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Oy, braces. My heart goes out to her.