Posted on 11/18/2013 2:29:56 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
The continuing saga of the gigantic tumor.
I went to the oncologist today for the 1st time about the giant lump off my appendix.
While the surgery does much for me, she is still up in the air about what to do next.
Prayers for a full recovery, and for God’s comforting hand to calm the storm. God bless you.
prayers for you and your physician. May He guide you all.
If your doctor can't figure it out, Houston has a famous cancer hospital. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Freeper Jeff Head came here for his unusual cancer of his lower spine. Maybe it would be something to check out.
I would urge you to contact MD Anderson in Houston, TX. Here is their contact page:
I contacted them the day after my biopsy results came back, sending an email to their spine cancer treatment area. I had an email response the next day...and three weeks later I was in Houstion seeing the Physician/neurosurgeon.
If you do contact them, they will want your Dr. to send your data down to them to the proper Cancer Center and get their opinion.
Going there saved my life. I am four years later now. No new cancer, my bone fusions and titanium have done better than expected, and I can walk without any assisted devices, drive on my own, and have been back at work since the day I got back from Houston.
It cannot hurt...and please do not feel that you are somehow betraying your Dr. by doing so. If your Dr. makes you feel that way, you need to do it all the more.
od bless you and yours. Prayers up.
Prayers for Complete healing in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Will continue praying for you. Keep your chin up. Cancer is such a roller coaster ride.
My first response was to learn all I could about my cancer (which led to challenges with my doctors which had definitive positive input on my treatments). My second response was to re-educate myself on nutrition and lifestyle strategies.
My battle is in the early stages so the jury is out whether or not these changes have been physically beneficial. Certainly my lifestyle changes HAVE been beneficial emotionally. It gives me a sense of control and direction that a cancer diagnosis tends to take away.
Spiritually, cancer has re-aligned my priorities towards a much healthier relationship with my Savior. I am thankful my church has a cancer support group called Harbor of Hope.
Am I glad I got cancer? No. Has God used this disease to bless my life? Unequivocally YES!
I pray the LORD continues to bless you and I as well as all other FR’s experiencing this disease.
Survivor Stage 2 Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
Two years ago I was having small blood clots in my urine.
Tests were conducted and it was determined that I had bladder cancer.
I underwent chemo for 4 months and surgery was scheduled to remove my bladder and prostate gland. The surgery occurred in March 2012. A new neo-bladder was created from a small section of my small intestine.
Pathology tests determined that I was “cancer-free” at that time. Follow-up exams determined that I am indeed “cancer-free”.
Tests will continue over the next few years and my latest exam and CAT SCAN last month reveal I am indeed “Cancer-Free”.
Prayers to Our Great Physician on your behalf will be presented to our Lord Jesus Christ for you.
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today marks one year since my diagnosis of neck cancer Stage III, and after 4 months chemo and radiation I go in for my CAT scan on 12 Dec. last scan in oct was clear.
taking hope from you that I am as lucky. what a year it has been.
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