UPDATE ON MY CANCER

[enyaw061032]

I am going to the surgeon for an appointment late this afternoon (5:00) pm. He is going to discuss doing a biopsy!

I am also in touch with a oncologist, who will have a consultation with me tomorrow afternoon.

I am also in touch with MD ANDERSON comprehensive cancer treatment place in Houston, Texas. I have faxed all requested paperwork, reports, etc., and talked to them some on the phone. They told me OK to proceed with the biopsy, but not take any treatment if I want to go there, because once I start treatment here they will not see mw!

I don't even know IF they will see me yet!

They (MD ANDERSON) told me to have the surgeon tell the pathologist to send the slides to them for their review.

Barb

[Bev'sSister]

Sounds like a game plan anyway Barb. I have heard wonderful things about MD Anderson. Good Luck and please keep up posted. I will be praying for you.

Bobby

[Tracey Huguley]

You will be in my prayers...have heard nothing but good news about MD Anderson...there is also a non profit company that will fly you to Houston for appointments and treatment for free on a private jet...

PM me if you need the name of the non profit...

You may have already heard about it...

Tracey Huguley

[cindi o'h]

keep us updated, Barb!

Good luck at your surgeon app't.

Cindi o'h

[Don M]

It sounds like you are on the right track Barb. When you talk to MD Anderson, ask them if their treatment plan could be implememted at the local clinic if it is a long drive for you. Good luck with the biopsy.

Don m

[enyaw061032]

I am barely able to breathe right now, because I am so short of breath, not only because of the cancer thing but because I think I have a throat infection, not sure.

Thursday - Got a stomach cat scan--made me drink this junk at night, and here I go to Xray the next day and lo and behold the nurse comes smiling with a big plastic cup full of that crap! I couldn't believe it, but wait! It gets worse! This junk would gag a maggot, I'm telling you, and it took everything I had to get it down, and I am sitting there waiting to be called, and getting aggravated, and here comes miss smiley again with a second cup of the goop! I said WHAT? I finally asked her what was going on, and she said after this one, one more and that's it! I said I would have appreciated having been told what to expect, not this way! I don't think it's fair to pull that off. Besides my stomach, they did one on my pelvis, both of these being with and without contrast.

Anyway, I got through that but don't have the results yet.

Yesterday morning at 6:30 I go to the hospital for the biopsy. You may recall I went through that last week and the pulmonologist couldn't seem to find it. So anyway, I was taken into surgery, and the surgeon cut my neck and put the scope down there for a biopsy. I don't know how it came out yet, but he said I should get the results on that by Wed. this coming week.

I had no idea what I was in for on this. I got very, very sick--nauseated and dizzy from this procedure, and my throat is so sore right now that I can hardly swallow.

I guess I am just a chicken little that gets all sick and worried doing something like this that maybe others would just blow off. I took a pain pill when I got home (like an idiot, on an empty stomach), and if I felt nauseated before this was REALLY REALLY BAD. It was oxycondon or something like that.

I am waiting and hoping that the results won't be too awful bad.

Needless to say, this couldn't have come at a worse time for me, right at Xmas holidays.

Barb

[marym]

Hi Barb,

Sorry this is so togh for you. My initial testing went really well with little discomfit (other than that nagging fear!). MB Andersen has an excellent rep - It was between them and Moffitt when I was diagnosed. I decided on Moffitt due primarily to wher the family lived - FL and NY.

I hope you get the answers and the relief you need and can enjoy the holidays.

Good luck.

Mary

[Don M]

I hope you get good news afer all that Barb.

don M