GOOD NEWS! The Pet Scan was good. It does not appear that any cancer cells have spread anywhere else! Thank you all for your prayers. John and I can breath a little easier now.
Surgery
I am scheduled for surgery tomorrow Friday, August 3 @ 10:45 a.m. at Boone Hospital. I will have the Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy procedure to test whether any of my nodes have cancer cells in them. They are for sure cutting out one and the blue dye test will determine if there will be more removed to test. Also the porta-cath will be placed. This is an out-patient surgery, so I will get to recover in my own bed.
It's going to be an early morning for me. I have to be at the hospital by 6:45 a.m. to start the dye treatment. This is the three hour procedure I have mentioned before.
I will start chemo next week. I still have to determine the day. Sounds like I may be very sick the first day and the next. Will just have to wait and see how my body responds to it.
I did get some bad news...while on chemo, I will not lose weight just because of the chemo; I will more than likely gain weight. That was quite disappointing to me since that was one of my positive outlooks of all of this. :) Guess I will have to do the hard work myself to change my diet. SUCKS!!!
Little cranky...I haven't eaten for 12 hours. I get to fill my belly with some food that friends are bringing over to us. Can't wait. Then no food or drink after 11:00.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers!
LOVE to All
Christina~ so, so happy about the PET results!!!! Whew, that's really big news!!! :) I want you to know...DON'T freak about chemo!! Please, please! I was soooo scared but you know I never felt nauseous or sick to my tummy at all. I was however, EXHAUSTED... to the point that I did feel sick. You will probably sleep a lot so conserve your energy!!!!! Also, because of the steroids I felt really good the day of chemo and the day after until the last two treatments and because its cumulative I was a lot more worn down by then. The only issue I had and it was only because I continued to teach during chemo, is that I kept getting infections, fevers etc... which was a bummer. I know everyone is different and chemo regiments are different too...mine was not hormone receptive and it sounds like yours is which is actually good, I was triple neg. (YUCK) well it's all YUCK. Let me know if you want chemo ideas (by that I mean ideas of stuff to do during the treatments)... Jeff and I had the system perfected by the end and would be happy to share !!! Also, remember Stephens Park is right across the street from MO Cancer...talking a walk after chemo is really great, at least it was for me on the first few treatments. Of course mine was in Oct not mid Aug. It might be a tad hot for a walk, now that I think of it!!! Best wishes next week! I'll be thinking of you!!!! and today too!!!!!! ~ Cherri
ReplyDeleteAlso, not sure if you get to pick your chemo day, but they did let me. Thursday was my chemo day mainly because I knew that I would have the weekend to recover and the day after chemo I had to get the shot~ I went in after school ( can't remember the name but it helps rebuild the blood cells faster ) and it would make me incredibly achy so I wanted to be over that before I went back to work. I only had a limited number of sick days, since I missed the first three weeks of school, so I tried to be as creative as possible!
ReplyDeleteRest up this weekend! Wishing you well! Remember, let me know what we can do for you and your family!
Cherri