Arrived early this morning at Austin Radiology for the gallbladder scan. A two hour scan turned into a 4 because the gallbladder was not showing up under the dye after 1 hour. The tech said she wanted to see if individual scans every hour would work, but it didn't. So, my gallbladder is inflamed/ has colitis as suspected by Dr. Srygley. So, what does this mean? The metal stint is pushing against the valve causing inflammation. He explained 4 options.
1.- Go in and take out the gallbladder, but this would compromise my treatment.
2- Go in and replace the stint with a plastic one, but again this would need to be done every 3 weeks and compromise my treatment.
3. Continue taking antibiotics for 2 weeks to reduce the inflammation, meanwhile treating pain and fever with meds. I am on 2 different antibiotics- Pliva and Ciprofloxan
He wants to start with option 3 so we can continue the treatment plan. Compromising it is the LAST RESORT. If this does not work, and he said there is a 50% chance it won't, then there is another plan. He will install an external drain /tube that will allow it to do its job until surgery.
Obviously, prayers the antibiotics work! Having another "thing" attached to me daily has me bummed. :(
I'll have the chemo pump every day by then.
I have a follow up appointment with Dr. Srygley on Monday at 1:00. Thank you my friend, Sara, for using up one of your last summer days to give me a ride.
Hugs,
Cindy
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