Tuesday, February 10, 2009, Mom went in for her routine colonoscopy and endoscopy. Her endoscopy was first followed by the colonoscopy. During the colonoscopy, Dr Carter found that her stomach had blood in it. After draining the blood it returned. He admitted Mom in the hospital for observation and called Dr Schwartz (ear, nose and throat specialist) for a consult. They monitored her blood count and found that there was a mass on her left tonsil.
After being released the next day, Mom saw Dr Schwartz on February 13th. Dr Schwartz suspected cancer and recommended that the mass be removed. She was scheduled to the mass removed on February 27th however at the admitting appointment; the anesthesiologist wanted her to undergo a cardiology consult.
On Monday, March 2nd and Friday March 4th Mom did the resting and stress echocardiogram. On March 5th Mom underwent Dr Racsa cleared her for surgery. Dr Schwartz scheduled the tonsil and mass removal as the first surgery on Friday, March 13th.
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