Yesterday was a really hard day. I woke up with a headache. Then after my rice and beans for breakfast I went over to the Quinta to work on Inventory of some supplies and wait for Dr. Karla to pick me up. Dr. Karla arrived with some bad news and we cried.
Remember Heysi, the 16 yr old girl with bone cancer in her femur, well a lot has happened since I last wrote about her. She had been in the public hospital for the new fracture of her femur and was getting over a fever/infection. When the public hospital released her they said she was “infection free” and we were just waiting for her to strengthen up for the operation to put in prosthesis for her femur. So, with this good news, she went home and not but 36hrs later she had a 104 degrees fever again. Dr. Karla brought Heysi to see an Internist friend of hers and it was confirmed that Heysi had a kidney infection and that upon releasing Heysi from the public hospital they had not run a urine test. Dr. Karla and I decided that to get better for the operation scheduled in just 4 days Heysi needed to go to a private hospital.
Off to the private hospital (Hospital Cruz Azul) we went. She had a nice spacious private room with pillows, a personal nurse, a TV, clean sheets with her medicines/care given in a timely, cleaner manner. The private hospital was nice. Not up to par with US hospitals in terms of the gadgets but they seemed pretty organized. In just a couple days on some strong antibiotics, Heysi is recovering from the kidney infection. However, the internist friend also found some bad news on a report from X-rays done back in September and the recent X-rays done on her new fracture. The bad news is there is metastasis to her pelvis.
This is so frustrating because traces of metastasis were noted on the X-ray report from September and no follow-up or attention was given to it all. In fact, the opposite was done….went ahead and planed for the operation went on as if the tumor was inactive! So much more too…but I won’t go into it all.
This is sad because so much hope for Heysi’s cure and ability to walk again was in this operation/prosthesis and now that seems not to be an option.
There is a helpless feeling of again having clinical knowledge and not having a way to implement or process all that is going on.
But there is always Faith in a bigger plan and Motivation to serve as the best nurse I can. Learn and give the best I can.
So we went to talk with all the Doctors involved and ran an MRI to make sure of the metastasis and now are waiting to decide the next step which is most likely more chemo and avoiding infection until we can re-evaluate for an operation.
I’ll keep you posted, but in the mean time pray that Heysi finds her appetite, peace and keeps her faith. Also, pray for Dr. Karla to have wisdom to discern and make decisions.
Love,
Miss Ayla Landry
“Just because the tide is out does not mean there is any less water in the ocean.” ~Anonymous
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