Well, I guess this counts as a major meltdown!

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Lastest on a-SIL: visited surgeon today, stitches out, STILL NO PATHOLOGY REPORT! OK, I was a good and supportive person, all of a-SIL's sisters wanted to go with her, so I didn't, just because it felt like it would be too many people quizzing the doc and something important might be missed. NEVER AGAIN! Doc justifies wait for pathology report because they sent it to the Mayo Clinic. That's all very nice and impressive, but I am quite sure the sample didn't go straight from the operating room to Minnesota, it stopped in some local lab first, so WTF? He's saying he thinks it's a grade 3 or 4 glioma - what the hell is he basing that on? When he discharged her last week, he didn't know what type of tumor it was, so what changed? GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I'm heading up to their house now, so we can talk about a new battle plan. I am officially convinced that there is no clinician here in sh1tty little Delaware good enough for this battle. A stage 3 or 4 glioma is about as bad as the news can be - NO MORE MS. NICE GUY! All prayers, meditations, incantations and other positive expressions of any faith are very welcome - and desperately needed. We will leave no stone unturned in the quest to save my warm, wonderful a-SIL. Her mother was diagnosed with brain cancer at the exact same age, she had lung cancer w/metastses and died 18 months later. A-SIL is kinda freaked out by this factoid, so we gotta get moving to show her how we're going to write a different ending to her mother's daughter's story. Thanks for caring, hug your loved ones, see ya later!