Update
Posted by chrissy | Filed under Doctor Updates
Sorry for the delay in writting!! :( I have been going through a worldwind of emotions these past few weeks and I just really haven’t felt up to doing much of anything. Here is all the good things that have been going on the past few weeks:
Treatment #4 take 2: I went to the doctor on 4/15 a ball of nerves. I had this feeling that I might have treatment and I also had a felling that I wasn’t going to have treatment. Getting ready for this appointment was extremelly hard because I didn’t know what was happening. I had my lab work done and stayed connected for treatment, just in case. We sat down with Dr. Seng and he started to go over the tests and my blood work. Everything looked really good. My scans came back really good. The uptake on the PET Scan was 2.9 when normal liver uptake is 2.5, meaning that the cancer on the liver is slightly active now. The MRI showed that the tumors are only on the right side, which is great. My disease marker is way down too, everything is working. That news was a huge weight off my shoulders…it means that going through all this may actually be worth it. After all the good news, Dr. Seng said that the next step was going to be surgery, which means that treatment is over for now.
The next day, 4/16, I met with the liver surgeon again and went over everything and planned on surgery being anytime after 5/6.
Surgery is scheduled for Tuesday May 19th at 7:30am. Thats good because it will be earlier in the day and I should be in my room by mid-afternoon. The liver surgery will happen first…he will remove the right 60-70% of my liver and gallbladder. Once he is done with that, the colon procedure will happen. He will remove the remainder of my colon. He will then do a “J-pouch” prcedure with my small intestine, so we can reconnect later. I will keep everyone updated as it quickly approaches and once I am up to it in the hosptial. Let’s hope its only 5-7 days this time, 10 days just plain sucks. Wish me luck!!!
