Mucinous cyst

Della and I drove to UPMC Presbyterian this morning for her scheduled endoscopic sonogram. The trip downtown was uneventful and amazingly, we found a parking space on the first level of the parking garage. We checked in around 11:30 AM. Della was called to the lab at noon. An hour later I was permitted to go in. We waited another two hours before Dr. Sanders did the procedure. (Last week, we waited an hour and 15 minutes for a 15 minute visit from Dr. Lee -a consultation that cost $340 - no discount for having to wait. I assume Dr. Col. Sanders is offering no discount for having us wait two hours beyond the time of the scheduled procedure.)

Della was finally permitted to leave the hospital at 5 PM. We got across the Allegheny and into an Eat 'N Park restaurant at 6. The immediate news: the cyst  is a mucinous adenoma, a precancerous cyst that about 30-40 % of the time becomes cancerous. The biopsy will take about a week. In the meantime, we are pondering Dr. Sander's words that the cyst "appears to be communicating with other parts of the pancreas" and that the cyst "had little fluid". Surgery on the pancreas looms.

We really won't know what lies in wait for Della until we get the lab tests. But it does appear that the cyst is more threatening than we had originally hoped. Again, I ask your prayers.