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Hopalong:
Wow, P. Your mom's tumor was REALLY rare--fewer than 20,000 US cases per year:
A hormone-secreting tumor that can occur in the adrenal glands.
Pheochromocytomas usually develop in the small glands on top of the kidneys (adrenal glands). They most commonly affect people between the ages of 20 and 50, but can occur at any age.
Because of hormones secreted, symptoms include high blood pressure, sweating, rapid heartbeat, and headache.
Surgery to remove the tumor is usually required.
Very rare
Hope she had successful surgery...and relief.
Hops
I'll get pale and sweaty and weak, sometimes with chest pain and often with SOB during peak anxiety but not HBP or headache. Who knows how precise anything is for me, medically. That's the annoying thing about language: it's not EITHER physical or mental health... it's physical AND mental and it's hard to know what direction to turn to first sometimes. Chicken or egg stuff.
I'm dreading it but having a stress test (cardiac) next month that should either reassure or clarify. Fingers crossed.
Phyll:
She survived the surgery - barely. She was 72 at the time. Very tricky surgery and the surgeon nicked the spleen. When she came out of a second surgery in which the spleen also had to be removed, the nurse was anxious to inform my mother that they removed her spleen. My Mom was still pretty out of it, but I will never forget her response. It still makes me chuckle. Mom said, "They removed my spleen?! Is nothing sacred?"
Hopalong:
Brave and wittty, also.
Great Mom moment.
lighter:
How are you doing, Hops? I hope you and pooch are listening to music you live and dancing in the house.
Bet you're snowed in. I know we are.
Lighter
Hopalong:
Quiet snowy day and the power stayed on! Whew.
Cozy, calm, grateful, at peace.
Zoomed with a friend.
Worked on Afghan refugee family updates. (They have a home, the church furnished it completely, mentors got them on the internet so they could talk to family in Kabul, took them food shopping, set up budget, showed them translation apps --they speak Dari-- and got them to ESL classes. They've hooked up with the local mosque and even hosted some friends --from quarantine on the base I think-- whose power went out. Their younger son (16) has a serious seizure disorder and falls often so we got them extra area rugs and are relieved the rental house is close enough to the Med Ctr. Poor kid; I can't imagine. The older son speaks English and will probably be the first to find work. I can't imagine the trauma they've been through and their healing road will be a long one. But I'm happy to be involved as one of the planners, doing all the communications (updates to congregation, appeals for some new need identified, etc). Hope somebody came up with a pressure cooker.
Two hundred Afghan refugee families wound up here and most of them are still stuck in hotel rooms since affordable housing is so hard to find. Ours is lucky but I think it's probably because of younger son's health that they got in earlier.
I've been pretty relaxed (still love the inositol, miraculous!)..
hugs
Hops
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