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My cancer is back...
2 years ago in January i was diagnosed with ovarian cancer that had spread all over...i went through chemo, multiple surgeries etc...by Oct i had NED...
well about a month ago i started having pain in my pelvic area, then in my upper abdomen.. , my CA125 was still at 18 the week before my pain started (which concerned me because it had been between 8 and 12 but what do i know LOL) so doctors weren't really concerned but i kept telling them something was wrong... the final thing which i think made them agree they needed a scan was when i told them i had started having that "balloon deflating" feeling every time i emptied my bladder in addition to the pain which is EXACTLY the feeling i was having that caused me to go to doc with a persistent UTI 2 years ago and led to the original diagnosis
finally they ordered a CT scan which i had done last Thurs... and it showed 2 spots in the pelvic cradle one measuring 1.0 cm, one smaller and 2 on my liver... so needless to say...i'm going back on the same chemo i took before since i responded so well to it next Thurs... i am NOT thrilled BUT had i not kept insisting that something was wrong they wouldn't have found it so quickly..
I had NOT been on a parp inhibitor because it doesn't "play nice" with my seizure meds so Mon i saw a neuro who is changing my seizure meds after 25 years to something that does ...lets just hope it controls my seizures as well as the one i've been on for that many years...
Not looking forward to the chemo regimen again but on the plus side i know what I have to look forward to, and you know what really sucks? my hair has JUST gotten long enough to put in a ponytail again...oh well at least i kept my favorite wigs lol...
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@naturegirl5 oh my its only gotten more exciting this week dealing with them lol... so i got a phone call Tues evening saying "oh they went ahead and came up today to clean up" and i'm thinking YEA RIGHT...but the "supervisors" agreed to meet me out there yesterday morning because they KNEW i was upset over not being there....
well i arrived yesterday morning and i'm looking around going WTH.... if THIS is their job cleaning up i wouldn't be paying these fellows...all they did was finish breaking more of my berries, threw branches into a bigger pile and cut up ONE armload of firewood...yes i was VERY peeved because had they waited til yesterday i assure you it would have been done to MY standards.. well those "supervisors" showed up, seen what a mess they had still left and was NOT happy...well while we discussing this...lo and behold ANOTHER truck comes up the driveway and K looks and me and says "That's G...he'll be your best friend and will get it properly done if it can be" turns out he was the head of the whole line electrical line dept... he was NOT happy with the mess they'd left, said he would be coming Monday with a different crew, a bucket truck to take down a tree they hadn't cut but that is growing in the lines, a chipper to chip up all the brush into mulch, and chainsaws to cut up all the stuff over about 4 inches into firewood and they will even stack it for me.... so i'm going back up Sunday evening to be there when they arrive Mon morning... AND he said he will replace the tree they are cutting with a fruit tree for me there... Also i filled out paperwork to be reimbursed the cost of the berries they destroyed... soooo we'll see how Monday goes, hopefully they'll do all he SAID they will do..... Tues is the open day for the clothing ministry we run and Wed i'm traveling for chemo on Thurs... and yes i do feel horrible and tired... but i must keep going...i don't have an option...for if i don't do it, who will....i want my stuff cleaned back up!!! After all my son's friend will be moving into one of the cabins there for a month next Friday lol