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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Salem, VA
Posts: 2,195
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Magnate
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Salem, VA
Posts: 2,195
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I Am Scared
Last Saturday DH urinated, and it was all blood. The next couple of times he tried to go, nothing came out except a few drops of blood. This was out of the blue with no symptoms leading up to it. He called our doctor's service, and the on-call doc told him to go to the ER.
We went to the ER, and he asked me to stay in the waiting room until they were done doing any kind of procedures on him. I understood, so Montana and I waited until DH's nurse came and got us. Then, we went and sat with him until the ER doctor came in to talk to us.
His urine test and blood tests were all normal. The ER doc said that they were going to have to leave the catheter in him until he could see a urologist because if they took it out, he would end up back in the ER having another one put in.
It was hard getting to see a urologist, but our PCP finally got him an appointment yesterday. DH went in and was examined and the doctor told him that with what was going on with him, that it was probably bladder cancer.
He is scheduled tomorrow (Friday) for a CT scan, then a cystoscopy.
As you can imagine, this is horrifying to both of us. We were wishing that the doc wouldn't have mentioned cancer right up front like that. He did also say that it could be any of a long list of things, but once you hear the word cancer your mind wraps itself around it and won't let go. At least ours did.
DH's brother is flying in from NJ Saturday to spend the day with us. The brothers are very close. He is a kind and loving man, and we will be glad to have him here.
The doc also said that bladder cancer has an 80% survival rate. So, that's good.
I am just so very scared for my husband.
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Last edited by azoyizes; 01-22-2009 at 09:03 AM.
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