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Last month during DH’s regular checkup with his hematologist oncologist, who he sees for blood clotting issues not cancer, a downward trend in some of his numbers continued. Once is not a big deal, but several times and they were concerned. She ordered an ultrasound of his abdomen and more blood work and said they might need to consider a bone marrow biopsy. I have pretty severe medical anxiety, and it’s always worse when it’s him. Even he was really worried and that’s unusual when he’s the one who is sick. His abdominal biopsy showed an enlarged spleen and his platelets and one other number were even lower. So, our concern grew. When we met with her to discuss the results she said he had liver issues and that could be the cause, but he needed to see a liver doctor. Well he has cirrhosis, which was on his chart, so she should have mentioned that possibility to him the first time instead of only talking about the bone marrow biopsy. Anyway, she said we’d still need to another blood check in 3 months to see if a bone marrow biopsy was warranted. 

Today he was finally able to get in to see his liver doctor again who basically said “you have a bad liver, that causes these issues and an enlarged spleen so none of this is surprising.” I felt a lot better after hematologist oncologist said it could be his liver, DH less so, but his liver doctor saying it was very normal released so much anxiety I didn’t realize was still there! It was in the back of my head, but I was no longer losing sleep and having to redirect my thoughts every few minutes. But apparently it was because I started to happy cry. 

Plus, a new medication to treat his type of cirrhosis is being released soon so there’s more hope for his liver disease not progressing!

So that’s my very good day, share yours!