so i saw my doctor today. he wants the oncologist to make a descision between radiating the arm, or the doc doing surgery on it again, he is afraid that it is going to be an ongoing problem. he thinks that every time he takes one out another will grow in its place since the ones that are growing now showed up fairly soon after that last surgery, if there are too many surgeries done on the arm it will eventually ruin the arm, from scar tissue and/or infection etc.
so i took the report from the ultrasound to my oncologist's office, talked to her nurse, as the oncologist is out of the office till monday.
he also gave me pain PATCHES rather then continuing with pain pills, since they can be addictive and i can only take them at night since i can not drive after taking them.
so we will see how the patches work out, have never used them before.
BUT i did find out today, no one had ever come out and said it in these terms before, the cancer itself will NOT kill me, it will be end up being complications from it compromising my immune system that will eventually be the death of me, baring some other form of death, so that did make me feel better, i have always pictured it being a long painful drawn out death like i have seen in other cancer patients. Supposedly mine wont be that way.
remains to be seen, and i pray it wont be for LOTS AND LOTS of years from now :)
i will update monday if i find out more then
i have never had radiation so i dont know much about it
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
This last monday
ok i have not updated in a while.
the arm that they did surgery on in june has given me problems every since the surgery. there was swelling, but it never went away, after a while it became a hard lump. i talked to the surgion at least once a month about it.
well on monday he had an ultrasound done on it, as soon as she put that wand up to my arm you could see this HUGE black mass, and 2 smaller ones next to it.
the huge one has blood flow to and from it. not sure on the 2 small ones. so that pretty much rules out a hematoma. which leads us back to another lymphnode.
so i go see him tomorrow to discuss what we are going to do about it i guess
since it is causing alot of pain i am hoping we schedule another surgery as soon as possible to take it out
if we do that i am takin my digital camera and askin him to take a picture of the tumor after he takes it out i want to know what my enemy looks like...................strange i know but i dont care!
i will update tomorrow as to what we decide
the arm that they did surgery on in june has given me problems every since the surgery. there was swelling, but it never went away, after a while it became a hard lump. i talked to the surgion at least once a month about it.
well on monday he had an ultrasound done on it, as soon as she put that wand up to my arm you could see this HUGE black mass, and 2 smaller ones next to it.
the huge one has blood flow to and from it. not sure on the 2 small ones. so that pretty much rules out a hematoma. which leads us back to another lymphnode.
so i go see him tomorrow to discuss what we are going to do about it i guess
since it is causing alot of pain i am hoping we schedule another surgery as soon as possible to take it out
if we do that i am takin my digital camera and askin him to take a picture of the tumor after he takes it out i want to know what my enemy looks like...................strange i know but i dont care!
i will update tomorrow as to what we decide
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