Well that last post was a bit cryptic. That's the process of strong pain meds and other drugs while sitting around in the hospital with an hour to kill. Yes, an hour...
Anyway, it's time to catch up. Surgery was mostly successful, the colon recection went well, however, they did not perform liver procedure. They decided it was just too risky to mess with for what they thought was dead tissue anyway. Here's the rub, when they did the biopsy on my colon and that little spot on my pelvis, both were still hot. Regardless, we're playing the waiting game with that one.
As far as that spot on my pelvis, it's assumed to have spread there during the first surgery back in September. Possibly a drop of contaminated blood, or something similar. Either way, they removed it, and I go in to talk about some radiation therapy in a little over a week from now. It's mostly a "let's be sure we got it all" thing than anything else.
Bottom line, I'm not as done as I would like to be. It was pretty disappointing to hear that the cancer was still active. A couple of docs have considered more chemo, until I reminded them that I've already had 20 rounds!
I'm recovering pretty well from the operation, the incision is already completely closed (the first surgery took over a month to close up), but I'm still dealing with the side effects from losing a large portion of your colon. You can use your own imagination to figure that out.... I also have quite a fatigue issue to deal with. I get tired of I'm on my feet for more than 2 hours or so. I'll push through it and get my stamina back eventually.
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