h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wish there was something I could say or do, but I'm useless on both counts.

Thinking of you

Oh no! Hope it all goes as well as it possibly can And I'm glad they got you the results as fast as possible, at least.

Oof!


Nothing I can add there.

My friends husband had the same op,and chemo,14 year ago az.He went back to work earler than he thought he would,he's just retired!!!
I hope the scan results are good,thinking of you

Thoughts and good wishes, positive karma and all that malarkey coming your way.

Good luck, best wishes.

So sorry to hear that. I'm thinking of you.

sending keep the strength thoughts

Be confident. Doctors will help you to get over this. Be patient, keep calm, you are a strong woman.

Whatever the results you will recover from all this. Many have done it before and now, you.

Be Brave!

az, it sounds like they caught it early. There are so many more treatment options these days, and chemo is a very good one. *Not* fun, but effective. You are a strong woman, you know -- just no leaping small buidlings in a single bound for a while!

I'm keeping you in my thoughts, and I hope you'll be the recipient of excellent news after your scan.

Since my operation in May I have been pretty much been living in limbo. It wasn’t so apparent during the first couple of weeks that I was recovering from surgery, but as soon as started feeling better I also started realising that this was just the first step. I still had to find out if the tumour that had been removed (along with a metre of my colon) was malignant and, if so, whether the cancer had spread.

Two weeks ago I was told the tumour was indeed malignant and a week later I had a CT scan to see if I was ‘clean’ or not. And yesterday I found out that I’m not. Or maybe I’m not. The CT scan showed a small lesion in my liver that may or may not be cancerous.

I was told I would need a PET scan and if the lesion turned out to be malignant I would then require more surgery, followed by chemo. But in the meantime I was still scheduled to start chemo this Friday (I’d put it off for a couple of days so I could meet a visiting friend at the airport today without feeling ill). But it still didn’t make sense to start chemo and then stop it for surgery - if it came to that - and then start all over again a few weeks later.

And so I went down to the nuclear medicine department to see about getting a PET scan. Happily I know some people there so it turned out that I can have a PET scan this Saturday and get the results back by Monday (yay!). And when I told my oncologist this she immediately agreed with me about putting off the chemo till next week, until we find out if I’m going to need more surgery or not.

So if all goes well and I *only* need the preventative chemo (fingers crossed!) then that will start next Friday.

Meanwhile, I'm back in limbo.


az

Az! Glad you have the connections to make it go quickly.

todo va a ir bien
so...
enjoy the limbo

Ouch. What must be going through your mind? Lot's of scary things, I imagine.

But, as has been said, you're a strong person. Pull through this, az. You can.

TRiG.

I'm thinking of you and wishing you good fortune.

Stay strong.

Thinking of you az,and hoping all goes well with the scan.You will find the strength to deal wth this,and it's to be scared too.