24 hours of nothing I do going smoothly or some things not even being done at all or being done wrong ... I know there are days like this but they feel endless and run down your already low battery ... such a sad and hopeless feeling
Prayers please ...
I am playing all my Uplifting Youtube playlist eg Brother Sun Sister Moon, Highland Cathedral on pipes, Where Noone Stands Alone, Ps 23 to Brother James's Air, Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures, Rocky Mountain High, Faure's In paradisum, Palestrina's Assumpta Maria Est, Come Thou Fount, The Ninety and Nine - something will have to hit the spot in that scatter!
For our streamed service this morning, the first hymn was “All Creatures of Our God and King,” the metrical paraphrase of The Canticle of Brother Son and Sister Moon. I was actually in the church as the hymn leader—the designated person to sing the hymns for the livestream. Prayers went up for you while I was singing it.
Scan results show my disease is stable and there are no "morphological changes". (Apparently after a certain level of seniority doctors don't use the terms "spread" or "new tumors"!)
Indebted to all for prayers and everything else like scented candles and strategically placed flowers in little Marian chapels
The biopsies for the calcifications that I had before, that I hadn't gotten the results for, I finally got results, but only posted on the webpage, not relayed to me by my doctor so I have no interpretation. As far as I can tell, they found no new cancer but they found some abnormalities in the right breast that I think are pre-cancerous.
Thank you all. I had the MRI. It was quite possibly the most uncomfortable thing I've ever done, and I include giving birth in that. For a breast MRI you have to lie on your stomach with your breasts through a hole and your face down. It's painful and hard to breathe. I just hope I was lying still enough for good images.
Next step, the appointment with the surgeon on the 11th.
Mr. Image had one kidney removed about 2 years ago because of cancer, now it appears there is a new tumor in his one good kidney. The good news is they plan to remove the tumor and not the kidney and that the one kidney is working as well as can be expected doing the work of two well ones. The bad news is this is not unusual for this type of cancer and a bladder tumor or another kidney tumor may be next. Enough already. The good news is it does not usually spread to other parts of the body. As you can see I am looking for any good news.
All my worries are over...PET-CT showed disease stable. 4 more days of meds then a week off to recover
In celebration I acquired a set of those trekking pole thingies: https://www.inglesport.com/product/mountain-king-guide-antishock-walking-pole/
and I feel I am flying along the paths and tracks! I am simply zooming along now with very little pain or effort in the relative cool (25 deg C) and quiet of early morning hours before the temperatures rise (to 36 deg C).
I do have a painful hip contusion after a careless person on a mobility scooter caused me to jump awkwardly off the path a week ago. It will pass of course in a few weeks but it was just so (im)perfectly timed for my mood and worries that morning! Especially since she didn't even stop to see if I was ok. But it's nothing Ibuprofen can't cope with. It just made me furious that she is driving around essentially from memory when she is obviously vision-impaired and not able to concentrate or react to her environment
Back from seeing my surgeon. The good news is that since the tumor is very small (1.1 CM) and there's no other involvement, I can have a lumpectomy and radiation instead of a left breast mastectomy. She said I could have the mastectomy and reconstruction if I wanted but the outcomes were the same, the only thing being that there is a 25% chance over my lifetime of recurrence with the lumpectomy so I'll have to be very strict getting my mammograms regularly. I said lumpectomy, I really don't want to lose my whole breast. So I just have to wait till they call me to schedule the surgery and preop treatment, and a covid test. There may be chemo involved too but they won't know that till they get the pathology of the tumor after the surgery.
Thanks everyone who prayed. This is the best outcome of a bad situation.
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What a lovely thought!
Indebted to all for prayers and everything else like scented candles and strategically placed flowers in little Marian chapels
The biopsies for the calcifications that I had before, that I hadn't gotten the results for, I finally got results, but only posted on the webpage, not relayed to me by my doctor so I have no interpretation. As far as I can tell, they found no new cancer but they found some abnormalities in the right breast that I think are pre-cancerous.
Prayers ascending, NicoleMR
Praying for tomorrow, @NicoleMR 🕯
Next step, the appointment with the surgeon on the 11th.
In celebration I acquired a set of those trekking pole thingies:
https://www.inglesport.com/product/mountain-king-guide-antishock-walking-pole/
and I feel I am flying along the paths and tracks! I am simply zooming along now with very little pain or effort in the relative cool (25 deg C) and quiet of early morning hours before the temperatures rise (to 36 deg C).
I do have a painful hip contusion after a careless person on a mobility scooter caused me to jump awkwardly off the path a week ago. It will pass of course in a few weeks but it was just so (im)perfectly timed for my mood and worries that morning! Especially since she didn't even stop to see if I was ok. But it's nothing Ibuprofen can't cope with. It just made me furious that she is driving around essentially from memory when she is obviously vision-impaired and not able to concentrate or react to her environment
Good to hear your results too.
Thanks everyone who prayed. This is the best outcome of a bad situation.
@Galilit the hiking poles sound amazing