Not so good news

Kris, 
I'm so sorry.  It's so easy to feel hopeless but Joyce is absolutely right.  Don't give up hope and don't give up the fight.    There are so many variables we never know where our paths will lead.
Is it possible while you are in the US to get a second opinion here?  Could be well worth the hassel of getting copies of the radiology report, imaging, Dr notes and anything else you can get your hands on to bring with you.  I realize this is especially difficult for you with the language barriers and different systems and rules then we have here.  Pick a good cancer center here with CC experience, call them now (or perhaps your folks could do that) and send the reports, imaging and whatever you can get ASAP so they have time to look at it and possibly agree to see you.
Have you see the reports on work being done with radio waves reported here and in the press?  It sounds like at least Bills wife was able to get insurance coverage for this.  Stem cell work is starting to show promise in Germany.  Immunotherapy in many forms is getting more attention and research.  We all have to hang on to be here for the break through we all hope for.

A few years ago a scan showed increased mass at the head of the small bile duct that was sewn directly to my intestine when I had the Klatskins surgery.  This scared and disheartened me.  (that's an understatement)   The doctors eventually decided it was scar tissue, not tumor, from the surgery and the intervening years have born out this assessment.

Courage!!

-Peter

Hi Kris...  Just want ya to know I'm here with everyone else , wishing and praying for only the best of outcomes.  You grab that bull by the horns and if that isn't enough kick it square in the ????? posterior.  Stay as positive as possible girl.  Your a fighter, I can feel it in your post. With support from Hans and your family and your other family here on this site, you can reach the impossible.
God Bless,
Jeff G.

Thanks everyone. Needless to say, the last few days have been stressful and very uncertain. I will be heading home in the morning and will hit atlanta by 4:00 pm and then on to sunny SC. I have taken the advice we always give and will be getting a second opinion from Dr. Sanoff at UNC Chapel Hill. I have read many positive things about her on this board so off I go. We will be meeting sometime the week after Thanksgiving. Hopefully my charts and scans will have arrived by then!!! Everything came up so suddenly on Friday and then it was the weekend, that I never managed to get copies of everything so they will need to be mailed.

I am very happy over this development. I DO VERY much trust my Swedish doctor in charge of my case, it is just my oncologist that I feel is less than steller. Plus a differnt view from a different medical system would be wonderful.

Thanks again everybody!!!

Yes, Carol,  I do listen to James Taylor's Carolina On My Mind. It does make me a little homesick, but in a good way...as does Jimmy Buffett's Coast of Carolina. I cannot believe that I will be home in a day. Just the thought of being able to watch tv and eavesdrop on conversations around me brings a huge sm ile to my face which I am sure is good for the health!!!!

Kris

Keeping in the spirit of James Taylor........

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel.
Things are going to turn out better
if you only will.

-Peter