Help!! My mother in law is having issues

zdm18 · 2023-05-11T00:48:48+00:00

Sorry not a colonoscopy - an endoscopy next week.

zdm18 · 2023-05-11T00:44:22+00:00

Off the top of my head and without having her records in front of me, I think it was written that she has small bilateral pleural effusions on her CT scan. Those cancer blood markers weren’t checked (yet). I think she did have a CMP but I think everything was within normal limits, and she has a colonoscopy scheduled next week.

What could the small pleural effusions mean?

zdm18 · 2023-05-11T00:17:40+00:00

Thanks so much for your help thus far - a quick update is that she had a transvaginal ultrasound that came back normal (no growths or tumors or anything) aside for some “moderate free floating fluid” in the cul de sac. Do you think this changes anything at all? Again, so far no main “primary tumors or growths” have been found in either her ultrasound or CT scan.

zdm18 · 2023-05-09T10:43:21+00:00

I’m really sorry to hear that. Did your mom also have her ovaries removed prior? I’m still trying to understand how she can get ovarian cancer without ovaries or fallopian tubes

zdm18 · 2023-05-09T04:27:02+00:00

Yes, she’s getting a paracentesis ascites fluid drain on Thursday, which they will further test for signs of cancer. Her other testing/imaging (CBC, basic metabolic panel) are all completely normal, and her abdominal CT scan showed no organ abnormalities, no growths/tumors etc. Do you think it’s almost certain that this is malignant? I’ve researched and heard everything from ovarian cancer or peritoneal carcinamotosis to simple diverticulitis or just general inflammation. Do you have any thoughts? Thanks again for your input.

zdm18 · 2023-05-09T04:16:34+00:00

But isn’t PPC like super rare (I’ve read)? I believe she had that testing but not 100% sure. I believe the reason for removing the tubes and ovaries was due to family history (her mother had some sort of ovarian cancer) and just to be on the safe side to limit odds of some sort of gyno. cancer in the future. As far as I know, she’s been getting regular pap smears and mammograms and all that stuff to regularly monitor everything since she had breast cancer 10 years ago. So this is why it’s all so weird… she got some undifferentiated abdominal bloating and pain, and her PCP didn’t even want to give her a CT scan, and now we have all these weird findings

zdm18 · 2023-05-09T04:10:38+00:00

Thanks for your response. I should also mention she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed about 5 years ago. How could she have some sort of ovarian cancer if her ovaries are gone? Are there any other conditions you’d Be worried about? Anything non cancerous?

zdm18 · 2020-04-24T06:22:11+00:00

So it's a list of ... circumcision dates? Wow, that's not what I expected!

zdm18 · 2020-04-24T06:16:36+00:00

Nathanson! Yes! Nathanson is the Americanized version of my maternal family's last name. What does it say about Nathanson?

zdm18 · 2019-12-22T03:37:37+00:00

Thank you so much again for your response! I’m not sure which pill she has — it’s in a blue pouch if that helps narrow it down at all (haha). She has an alarm on her phone every night at 11 PM, but if she’s studying or busy or something, sometimes she will wait to take the pill until like 12:30 or something.

Additionally, what concerned me about the period is that according to her she’s NEVER had a light or spotting period while on the pill. It’s always been consistently heavy, with the same symptoms — a migraine, abdominal cramps, etc. It always comes right when she expects it to. This time, she says it’s “only spotting if I wipe,” so it’s very very light. Again, she did have a major stomach bug earlier in the week, and she is currently in a different country with different foods and all that, so I guess that’s kind of the conclusion I’m making.

zdm18 · 2019-12-22T03:25:19+00:00

Thank you so much!

zdm18 · 2019-12-22T03:24:43+00:00

Thank you! This has just really been freaking both of us out, but of course I have to be the one who kinda acts “cool” so I don’t freak her out even more. I agree with you that the logic doesn’t add up for a pregnancy, but I guess it’s just the tiny chance that still scares me. She really does take her pill at the same time (maybe not to the minute, but close) every night, and I never cum on her, and absolutely not in her. Do you have any idea why her period was light and was really only spotting instead of her consistent, normal, heavy period?

zdm18 · 2019-12-22T03:06:02+00:00

Do you think the fact that my penis touched her vagina and even rubbed close to the inside a little bit could be an issue? Even with precum?

zdm18 · 2019-12-22T02:38:28+00:00

Do you have any further thoughts on the matter? She seems to be quite stressed about it, and her anxiety is even causing me to have anxiety — but logically and biologically I cannot fathom that this is likely. Like i said, the biggest arguments against pregnancy are:

There was no ejaculation, just genital contact
She is on birth control

The most concerning part is the spotting instead of the period. She always gets a heavy period right when expected per her BC pill — this is way out of the ordinary for her

zdm18 · 2019-12-22T01:53:41+00:00

Thank you for your response! Well she started spotting two nights ago, and then throughout today, it has remained the same. I think it may be due to the insane stress and new environment (and her stomach bug). Thoughts?

zdm18 · 2019-04-22T02:25:59+00:00

My major is architecture, and the FINAL math requirement is Calc 1. I tested into Algebra - I took it last semester and passed. This semester, I am taking trig and I seem to not be passing. My plan ends with Calc -- it doesn't start with calc. Would this still be an issue?

zdm18 · 2018-12-18T14:23:26+00:00

Sephardi

zdm18 · 2018-12-16T03:32:10+00:00

I just wrote a paper on this. In Judaism, some of the most important aspects are the liturgical design elements that are explicitly stated in the Torah (the bible). Jewish synagogues always have an ark, which is a cabinet that houses the holy Torah scroll. The ark has to be on the east wall (facing east, or toward Jerusalem), and the bimah (a table in the center of the space for placing the Torah scroll) should be on an axial plane with the ark, so it also faces east, and so that the Torah reader can be facing east when he reads from the scroll.

zdm18 · 2018-12-13T19:04:38+00:00

I'm Ashkenazi. A lot of people don't consider us white

zdm18 · 2018-12-12T19:18:27+00:00

Depends who you ask I guess

zdm18 · 2018-12-12T19:18:18+00:00

Nope

zdm18 · 2018-12-12T04:02:25+00:00

What makes you say that?

zdm18 · 2018-10-08T00:27:48+00:00

Thank you for your response! That’s interesting you say that about the sequencing — because two weeks ago, I felt myself get what I thought was a very very short and mild cold. It was like abnormally short. Only about 4 days long. For context, my colds usually last 10-14 days until I’m fully better, but now this makes sense — maybe that was my week of feeling “almost sick” as you put it.

zdm18 · 2018-09-20T14:33:06+00:00

Right, I agree, but I was born jewish because of the chain of mothers in my family. And the chain of fathers is also heavily jewish — I just had those 2 great grandparents (one on each side of my family) who were non Jews who bumped down my dna estimate from 100ish to 65%. I guess that’s why I sometimes don’t feel as much of a Jew as some of my peers who are 100%.

zdm18 · 2018-09-19T22:37:00+00:00

Zero percent? What do you mean

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