(Metastatic) Breast Cancer and so forth...

The term, metastatic, describes a cancer that has spread to distant organs from the original tumor site. Metastatic breast cancer is the most advanced stage (stage IV) of breast cancer. Cancer cells have spread past the breast and axillary (underarm) lymph nodes to other areas of the body where they continue to grow and multiply. Breast cancer has the potential to spread to almost any region of the body. The most common region breast cancer spreads to is the bone, followed by the lung and liver. Treatment of metastatic breast cancer generally focuses on relieving symptoms and extending a woman’s lifetime.

My mom has just realize after 3 weeks of running back and forth to this hospital in Manhattan that this is not the hospital that she did the Pathology surgery at back in 2000.  When I first requested her medical records from the hospital they told me that they have no records of her name in the system. Second time around then they tell me by law they can only keep a patients records for 6-7 years then they have all right to destroy them, that sounded a little fishy to me.I continue to pressue getting these records by calling the patient representative department. They sent a e-mail to the medical records administrators. That's when they got back to me this morning saying there is no record of that name and birthday matching there records.

At this stage her doctors cannot treat her any further until they find out what stage her breast cancer was in when she had the lymph node removed in 2000. Long story short the hospital was right, when they said she was not in the system she was never in that hospital. The hospital that she did have the surgery done in was 3 blocks down and she did not have the name to the hospital only the phone number smh.... Now I know the city is big but I cant believe she mixed up these two hospital one is a well known, huge hospital with many location vs the hospital she went to.

After six (6) 411 calls and seventeen (17) Google searches I was able to find the actual hospital name, but get this; it has been closed down for the past 2 years ...boi I tell ya lol However, they are still operating out of certain departments in the hospital, So even tho I was not able to talk to anyone in the Medical records department I got an operator on the phone and she said I have to leave my name and number and wait for some one to get in contact with me. Being today is Friday and no one has called me I know I have to wait until next week sometime to get a appointment to pick up her records that's if they even still have them...But I'll keep it positive cuz Lord knows we need these records all treatment has been post pone until we get these papers...As far as her Pulmonary Fibrosis she has a appointment with the lung specialist on Oct, 2nd...


Ahhhhhh That feels better I got to let it out LOL
Have a lovely weekend Ply!