Marabelle wrote:Sending greetings of good health, peace and guidance. I read you had 3 weeks and then your surgery, by now it must be closer to one week. Try to keep positive thoughts and hope for a brighter tomorrow. I hope your recovery will be fast and with excellent results. Time has a way of healing and setting us on our path to the next chapter of life, which I envision to be filled with hope, happiness and joy. Take my words as they were meant to be expressed, don't waste any time with lingering thoughts, take the goodness and with it fill your spirit lightly.
I'm trying to just numb myself & remain calm but as day gets closer I feel the tension.
Surgery March 1...Next week pre op blood tests...
Its robotic & hopefully I will only spend one night in the hospital so that's as good as it gets.
I am lucky that I did finally get a great surgeon affiliated with City of Hope. It gets no better than that so I have something to be thankful for!!!!
Trying to tie up loose ends. Where my "stuff" is. Advance Directive...
Should survive surgery but there is always risk.
I wish I could be totally optimistic but I can't. I have pain & worried its spread.
It is said to be a low grade slower cancer & survival is good if its not spread.
I had a feeling something was wrong so they did a ultrasound almost 3 years ago 5/2014 which had some small cysts which are not normal so I would have liked to have known & been screened but the ultrasound was lost & the Dr never got it. I was told I'd be contacted of any abnormalities so when I never got any I thought I was fine until symptoms 9/1/16. I asked about the first ultrasound & they knew nothing about it. I blame myself. I should have demanded a report on it & they would have had to call the ultrasound center to get the report. I don't know who's fault it was. Maybe the ultrasound place never sent it to the DR or there was a problem at the receiving end. Luckily the report existed & when I went in for the recent ultrasound I asked them & the tech gave me a copy of the report.
NEVER allow a result from a procedure to go without getting a result!
In hindsight I guess my Dr never knew I even had the ultrasound but she should have followed up with me if she saw I did not get recommended test. I can't prove anything but I feel those cysts were the start of the problem. Still I went to the Dr as soon as I had the usual first symptoms & was one of the unlucky under 10% who actually have cancer.
If I had known about the cysts I would have asked for at least another ultrasound in 6 mo to a year to check on it.
Maybe they were nothing & getting cancer in that location was just a coincidence????
Shame how one mistake might cause someone there life.
Really bad slow medical care. 1 1/2 mo to get diagnosis. 2 months after that just to get a cancer Dr appointment. 1 month to get a cat scan. Its will be almost 6 months that it took me to get surgery.
So far the medical insurance has paid $127 toward $5000 worth of ER/ambulance bills & I am receiving final notices...
Its just bad but luckily my auto insurance has said I am covered.
Yeah, life has been really at a all time low...least I am alive & walking as being an invalid after the hit & run was almost more than I could bear.
I know none of us live forever but I never thought cancer would strike then get hit by a car less than a month later.
That would have delayed surgery anyway so it sort of took my mind off that while I was struggling to get to the kitchen once or twice a day to eat. That evil woman who ran me down & took off. She had a young male passenger in his 20's so maybe her son? They have to live with it!!!!
