Another Sonogram, Some Dreary Results
After the PET/CT scan, we went across town to a different hospital for a sonogram.
In this one, the technician moves a wand over his neck, just like he would with a pregnant woman's belly.
After doing that for half-an-hour he went to confer with his colleagues about "maybe getting a closer look." That in itself wasn't a good sign, especially as he took about 20 minutes. He came back with a radiologist who said she didn't like what she was seeing in his lymph nodes around his chest.
She did some more work with the sonogram and said she'd send the results to Enrique's doctors. They are going to need to do a biopsy sometime next week. That, in combination with the results from the scans will determine his next course of treatment.
Unfortunately, it seems like there may need to be a further course of treatment. We hoping for the all-clear. Obviously, we don't know what that will be, but it's unlikely to be anything worse than he's already been through. And maybe it won't even be that bad.
In this one, the technician moves a wand over his neck, just like he would with a pregnant woman's belly.
After doing that for half-an-hour he went to confer with his colleagues about "maybe getting a closer look." That in itself wasn't a good sign, especially as he took about 20 minutes. He came back with a radiologist who said she didn't like what she was seeing in his lymph nodes around his chest.
She did some more work with the sonogram and said she'd send the results to Enrique's doctors. They are going to need to do a biopsy sometime next week. That, in combination with the results from the scans will determine his next course of treatment.
Unfortunately, it seems like there may need to be a further course of treatment. We hoping for the all-clear. Obviously, we don't know what that will be, but it's unlikely to be anything worse than he's already been through. And maybe it won't even be that bad.
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