More Waiting

More waiting, this time at Wake Forest University Cancer Center on Monday.  The Cancer Center is amazing.  It has a hospitality room with coffee, soft drinks, and munchies for patients and their family.  CT Scans, radiology, treatment rooms and labs are all located in the Cancer Center, which eliminates any dependence upon the main hospital. A caring counselor comes to your exam room and offers her availability and listening ear whenever you need it on your journey.  Other patients/clients are encouraging and helpful.  The staff is extremely friendly, courteous and helpful.  From a patient perspective the organizational culture is a "team" approach with the emphasis being placed on the patient/client and their family.  What a concept in this era of McHospitals and corporate medicine who appear to be more concerned about getting payment than anything else.  

 

We met with the oncologist/hematologist and she ordered additional CT scans and specific blood work.  We await those results for confirmatory reports before we make another move. My doctor knows her stuff and she is cautious.  I like her approach.  Meanwhile we continue to marvel at the organizational culture and staff attitudes at WFUBMC and North Carolina Baptist Hospital.   Since going to Wake, with every biopsy, procedure, labs, scans,  surgery, and doctor appointments, I have never felt like a "number".   It makes a big difference!  There are some hospitals and doctors offices who could learn a lot by just spending a day with these caring and gifted professionals.   

So we continue to wait on the cancer labs, and we pray that my re-sectioned ureter will work on its own when the stent is removed later this month.  The alternative is major surgery to create a ureter, but we can't get ahead with worry so we leave the future in God's sovereign hands.  We started praising Him from the beginning of this journey and we will continue.  He has been ever faithful.  In the words of the Apostle Paul, "Praise be to the God of all comfort!"