She told us they showed signs of a very early cancer with no spread! It should be easily treatable with surgery and a possibility of chemotherapy afterwards.
I left the hospital feeling really positive - after all of this, he'd be cancer free and we could get on with our lives together. I was holding back tears of happiness - his first symptom had been so drastic and he's lost such a large amount of blood that we'd started to fear the worst. I was thrilled that the cancer was treatable. Steve was understandably very nervous for surgery, but mostly just relieved and happy that he was going to be okay.
Di told us we'd have a further meeting on Friday 10th August, where Steve's surgeon, Mr H, would be present to further discuss the surgery and provide us with a date. Di told us it would very likely be the following week, and we prayed that it would - waiting was excruciating.
Mr H gave us a date - 6th September. We'd have to wait nearly 4 weeks! We didn't want enough time to think about what was being done, we just wanted it done. I did take some comfort in the fact that they were letting us wait so long - I've learned from previous experiences that if it was really serious, they'd have wanted to operate immediately.
We didn't have much choice - we waited nearly 4 weeks, and tried to put all of this to the back of our minds. (Impossible!)
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