We made it to the big city of Houston. It was a pleasant nine hour trip and since we knew where we were going this time, Houston traffic was much less intimidating. After a good night's sleep, we went looking for "real" food and a wheatgrass supply.
We found Whole Foods Market and were totally astounded at the variety of the most beautiful food and salad bars and vegetables and meats and, well, we were there for hours just looking at stuff. What a great store and there are five of them in Houston! The closest one to Pensacola is New Orleans. HOHUM!
The produce manager took my order for 5lbs of wheatgrass and sprouts and we will get them on the way out of town. Hopefully this will hold me over until I can get my crop growing at home. Even though everything looked beautiful and the labeling said natural and sprouted and organic, I still had to read the ingredients carefully. There was sugar, which I just did three weeks of detoxing to get out of my system. The live sprouted grains and seeds were baked, which kills the poor babies so there goes the "liveness". The organic was who knows, but one has to eat!!!!
Took our goodies back to the hotel for a feast of green before fasting for surgery.
So we met with the surgery team. What a trip! A resident, who admitted he was not completely familiar with my case, because it was somewhat complicated, said there was no proof that I have cancer; started to explain the next step in the investigation. WHAT????? He went on to explain that they did find cancer in the gall bladder that was removed and also in a lymph cell that was in the gall bladder. Now, they can't find it.
The doctor in charge of my case then came in to explain. Today, the GI surgeons will go down the esophagus, into my common bile duct to the liver and do a brushing to check cells and also look for blockages, since my initial symptoms were obstructive jaundice, and check the stent for replacement or removal. If that test comes back negative then they will go into the liver to explore the hepatic duct branches in more detail. If that is negative then they will do exploratory surgery to get a "hands on" look, and if that is negative then they will start chemo. WTF? This might make sense to him, but it does not make sense to me.
He never said what would happen if it is positive. The bottom line being, and I did mention this, they can't find it. "But we know you have cancer somewhere." Not only can't they find it, but the type of cancer I have has changed names. I am just an enigma.
Bottom line folks, is that I will go through the tests today and get that very painful stent removed or changed and find out what the results are from the brushings. With that info in hand I will bolt out of here and look for a second opinion. I may not fully understand all the medical nuances of my situation, but I do know logic and none of this is logical to me.
Why can't they just admit, I am cured? :)
We found Whole Foods Market and were totally astounded at the variety of the most beautiful food and salad bars and vegetables and meats and, well, we were there for hours just looking at stuff. What a great store and there are five of them in Houston! The closest one to Pensacola is New Orleans. HOHUM!
The produce manager took my order for 5lbs of wheatgrass and sprouts and we will get them on the way out of town. Hopefully this will hold me over until I can get my crop growing at home. Even though everything looked beautiful and the labeling said natural and sprouted and organic, I still had to read the ingredients carefully. There was sugar, which I just did three weeks of detoxing to get out of my system. The live sprouted grains and seeds were baked, which kills the poor babies so there goes the "liveness". The organic was who knows, but one has to eat!!!!
Took our goodies back to the hotel for a feast of green before fasting for surgery.
So we met with the surgery team. What a trip! A resident, who admitted he was not completely familiar with my case, because it was somewhat complicated, said there was no proof that I have cancer; started to explain the next step in the investigation. WHAT????? He went on to explain that they did find cancer in the gall bladder that was removed and also in a lymph cell that was in the gall bladder. Now, they can't find it.
The doctor in charge of my case then came in to explain. Today, the GI surgeons will go down the esophagus, into my common bile duct to the liver and do a brushing to check cells and also look for blockages, since my initial symptoms were obstructive jaundice, and check the stent for replacement or removal. If that test comes back negative then they will go into the liver to explore the hepatic duct branches in more detail. If that is negative then they will do exploratory surgery to get a "hands on" look, and if that is negative then they will start chemo. WTF? This might make sense to him, but it does not make sense to me.
He never said what would happen if it is positive. The bottom line being, and I did mention this, they can't find it. "But we know you have cancer somewhere." Not only can't they find it, but the type of cancer I have has changed names. I am just an enigma.
Bottom line folks, is that I will go through the tests today and get that very painful stent removed or changed and find out what the results are from the brushings. With that info in hand I will bolt out of here and look for a second opinion. I may not fully understand all the medical nuances of my situation, but I do know logic and none of this is logical to me.
Why can't they just admit, I am cured? :)