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» tinuviel - Spinal cancer issue

My cousin was just here. (She's the mother.) It turns out that maybe our physician friends weren't as competent as we had previously believed. The technology here is probably below what it should be--which is only somewhat to their credit. He's been going to doctors, clinics, the hospital since 2003 and they've even tried to treat him for asthma.

Scoliosis it is. But this has been caused by a tumour and not by what usually causes it in other people. (I know at least two other persons with scoliosis, and it's a nuisance, but it isn't killing them.) Also, what they did was an MRI. This was done without contrast, so she's going to have to get another one done. Why didn't they do it properly the first time? MRI's are not cheap.

Meanwhile BJ isn't going to school, but he seems to be taking it pretty well. She has to try to stop him from playing too hard--which is a sign he's in good spirits.

There's something I don't get. Right now she's been told that the tumour isn't cancerous. Yet. How can they know this in light of our last discussion about going in for the biopsy at the same time as the surgery? And do tumours spontaneously go from benign to malignant?

-- posted by tinuviel