Marshall finally had the CT scan at midnight and we got the results around 1:00AM -- no hairline fracture. The emergency room doctor definitely feels like the pain is cancer-caused.
We left the emergency room around 2:00AM and Marshall was nauseous and sick most of the way home. Thank goodness the nurse gave us one of those disposable "buckets" to take with us because we were in my truck (ha)!
The emergency room doctor suggested that Marshall pretty much stay on morphine and laxatives for the rest of his life and that he get a wheelchair. Her reasoning for the wheelchair recommendation was that the more pressure he puts on that right leg (femur), the more pain he will have, and that if he uses a wheelchair the majority of the time at home he will be able to kind of "save" the leg to go out and about so he wouldn't be completely housebound. We are going to check on getting a wheelchair, or, better yet, a scooter from The Scooter Store! That would be way more fun for him to zoom around the house in than a wheelchair.
In the meantime, we will call the oncologist on Tuesday or Wednesday and let him know what the emergency room results were and see what he might have in mind. From all the message boards that I have spent hours and hours reading, it seems to me like a little radiation of the femur may be in order. Or it might be time for chemotherapy. And/or perhaps a change in treatment.
But we don't buy the idea of totally sitting home in a wheelchair downing morphine. Not just yet.
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