Mom update

[errantpenny]

Mom called -- tests show no cancer but "several" ulcers. :) & :(

Her docs think this may be a result of her years-long aspirin therapy for heart problems.

Mom said, "So -- I think I need to get my heart doctors and stomach doctors in one room and ask them what I'm supposed to do!"

Go, Mom.

Comments

[inishglora]

I'm glad you didn't have to wait long to find out.

I know that aspirin makes the stomach bleed, so if I have to use it, I use the enteric-coated kind. Doesn't help that I have a genetic predispositon to ulcers, thanks to my high-strung grandfather.

[errantpenny]

Yeah, the speed was good for all. It surprised me, too. Apparently, what the doctors saw on the scope-y thing in no way resembled cancer, though they did take some cells to biopsy, just to be sure.

Mom *has* been taking aspirin daily with her doctor's knowledge -- I'd assume it would be the type to limit stomach side-effects, but I don't really know.

Mom is a high-strung type, too, in case that wasn't already apparent from the ulcers and heart trouble. Though I also consider myself high-strung, I tend to take after my healthier, lazier dad -- we both love our doin' nothing time, and our sleep!, while Mom is the type who always has to do three things at once.

[seajelly]

waving 'hi!' hope the new job is going well!!