So, Marye was doing pretty well on Thursday morning. The infection was under control, she had all her tests on Wednesday, and was feeling pretty good. Well, Dr. Bahr came by in the morning (he is Dr. Vitale's fellow) and sat with us for a little while and was ready to discharge her on Thursday. But while he's sitting there, Marye suddenly becomes violently ill, and vomitted more than she has in recent memory. I'm not talking about some nausea and dry heaving. She actually threw up her entire breakfast in front of the doctor. So after witnessning this, Dr. Bahr says, "I can't send you home in this condition". So she got to spend another day in the hospital.
After a few hours, the doctors decided that she could get a picc line, allowing her to get her antibiotics intravenously for the next week at home. So she now has a picc line. The doctors came in late on Thursday and said she could go home on Friday. I don't know what has changed between Thursday and Friday, frankly. She still gets nauseaus after meals, and doctors say that's just a product of having a tumor in your liver, i.e. it won't get much better until after they attack the tumor with chemotherapy.
The good news for the day is that the biopsy came back and the tumor is....... breast cancer! This means that the prognosis for this tumor is much better than if it was bile duct cancer. It seems that breast cancer is more treatable and reactive to chemo than most other types of cancer. So I'm sure that I'll have a lot more to say on this topic in the next week or so.
Ok, I hope this is a good update. The current status is that Marye should be home sometime on Friday, and her infection is under control. Hopefully she'll be able to rest at home and build up some strength that will allow her to go to chemotherapy. That's all I have for now. I'll post an update when she gets home and stable.
-Chris
