follow up today

-
Well, I had the follow up appointment to the little surgery I had on Friday a week ago. They removed packing and stents and it didn't seem to bother me at all. The Doc asked if I had had natural childbirth. When I said yes he said "I find that women who have had natural child birth tend to do well with this procedure." I guess it's a large item out of a small oriface type thing......... Anyway samples of the left ethmoid sinus walls showed some cancer cells remaining which he removed. I will go back in two weeks. If I do radiation, it would be in about a month. I'm still grappling with the latter. I feel terrific and with all the juicing, supplements and vegetarian diet I actually look pretty darn healthy. I am so excited about the three new grandbabies in July and in the meantime am working part time, gardening, playing with grandsons, seeing friends and pretty much just enjoying myself. Love with much gratitude, MC

Comments

Anonymous said…
HI MARY CAROL,

BE SURE TO PRACTICE "STOMPING GRAPES" FOR A TRIP TO ITALY IN THE FUTURE!

LOVE AND GARDENING HUGS,

SHEILA
April 10, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Anonymous said…
Maybe the BEWEDI's ought to think about getting some purple feet this fall in the "wine region" in Italy.Course' you'd out stomp us all with that energy of yours. love ya, sharell
April 13, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

GONE BABY GONE!

-
Image
The 3rd MRI results are in. The cancer is gone. You heard me. Packed up and left. Flew the coop. Tell it while you're walkin'. According to the radiologist and Dr. O'Malley, "there's no evidence of cancer." A PET scan will be done this Friday to confirm results of the MRI. While MC will still need proton radiation to ensure that no individual cancer cells remain, there will be no anterior craniotomies happenin' in this here family. Instead, MC will have outpatient endoscopic sinus surgery to take a few biopsies for safe measure and clean out her sinuses which, unrelated to the SNUC, have been clogged for years. More to come from the superhero herself......
Read more

Finally, a decision

-
Image
Hi, I'm back from the perfect vacation at the perfect time. I enjoyed the sun, the beach, kayaking, and never gave a thought to the other. Good thing, because when I got home and saw the Dr. at Penn, he of course identified the next step as radiation and chemo. When I asked if instead of doing that he would be willing to "follow me" - after all he can take a little scope and go up and look around quite easily - he said that he would, but would prefer that i have more surgery to remove the dura separating the sinus from the brain, go up and sample the brain and build a new dura. Then he would watch me monthly. After much hemming, hawing, talking with friends who have had cancer, a cancer coach, and an alternative cancer specialist, I have decided to go ahead with the proton radiation and cisplatin chemo for a 6 week period in Florida. Tom and I leave Sunday for a meeting with them on Wednesday. After a CAT scan, it will take them 2 weeks to get everything arranged and i wi...
Read more