When my doctor called I immediately knew it was something serious. If it hadn’t been, she would have just sent a message through the clinic’s portal. She told me yes, I had inflammation of my gallbladder, which might resolve itself, but the gallbladder might need to be removed. And they had found a large growth in my liver. She told me not to panic, that lots of people have benign hemangiomas, and she’d recently had two patients with liver growths that just turned out to be hemangiomas. She was going to get me a referral to a gallbladder specialist, and she also sent me for a dye contrast CT scan to get a clearer picture of the growth in the liver. I told her that my aunt had died of gallbladder cancer, and my mother had hers removed preventively, and I wanted mine removed. “But the liver is where the growth is!” she replied in an urgent, raised voice, as if I was missing the main point, which let me know that the liver was clearly what she was most worried about, even if she was telling me it was likely a benign growth.
When I met with the gallbladder specialist, he said the liver mass wasn’t a benign hemangioma, he didn’t know what it was, but it needed to be removed, and he was referring me to a surgical oncologist who specialized in liver tumors. Also he couldn’t do anything about removing the gallbladder. It was too dangerous to proceed given the liver mass.
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