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elderwitty) wrote2011-03-21 04:44 am
elderwitty) wrote2011-03-21 04:44 am
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Update on the sports equipment
I went to see Dr. Yim Friday. He looked at the CAT scan and judged my baseball to be the size of a volleyball. This sports shit is getting out of hand, but at least it's not a medicine ball. I can't believe it's quite that big - maybe he meant to say softball? Whatever, either way it's gotta come out.
We discussed a whole lot of options:
if the slice they look at while I'm laying splayed open behind them is benign, then he only takes the uterus. The ovaries stay to produce hormones.
if there seems to be even a hint of malignancy, he takes uterus, ovaries, the omentum, a strip of fat that cancer likes to use as a metastacizing stepping stone (I refrained from asking him to remove any and all strips of fat he encountered, as he seemed a pretty serious guy), and three sets of lymph glands. Hormone replacement therapy to follow. He responded to my concerns, pointing out that it's replacing what I would've produced naturally, not increasing - and that it's come a long way since the 60s/70s.
if it's adhered to the bowel, they'll have to resect (though he didn't use the word) it like garden hose (yes, that's how he explained it). Sometimes that doesn't work and a temp colostomy is needed. If all that happens, then we'll have to discuss chemo/radio-therapy.
Now, he did say that this was all worst case scenarios, and that we had to go over them so I would be fully informed...and I interrupted and said, "And 'cause you can't wake me up in the middle to discuss it." Most of these are fibroids, and 99% of those are benign, but you have to talk it all over, so there are no unpleasant surprises.
When do I want to do it? He's not saying, "We have to do it soonest, OMGOMG!!!" But we also don't want to hang about, since we don't know how fast it's grown, as there's no baseline. He has had a cancellation for Thursday 3/24... I'm on it like a goose on a junebug. The last thing he said before I left was, "I'm fairly cofident it's benign." I think that's a very strong statement in these litigious times.
I wrote a mass email (get it? :snerk: ) to my peeps, and it turns out that there's a long and storied history of fibroids in my family. In fact, my sister and I are the only two over 25 who still possess a uterus. And soon she will be all alone. (She's looking forward to her inevitable upcoming event, you betcha.)
So this Thursday is the day. I have three days to get all the paperwork for the Short Term Disability done, get a bunch of stuff at work set up for my absence, get groceries for my infirmity (pudding, yogurt, etc.), and have the furnace guys come an replace my limiter switch, which decided that Friday night was the perfect time to go bad. :> Luckily, the weather is predicted to be very mild 'til Wednesday night. And since I'll be home all day Wednesday, chugging the Golightly, won't that be convenient? :grin:
Thanks for all the well-wishes. I'm planning to update on Saturday, if what they tell me about my recovery slope holds true. Gotta go take a shower now. I just remembered that they're turning off the water in about 2.5 hours, and it won't be on when I'm getting ready for work.
We discussed a whole lot of options:
if the slice they look at while I'm laying splayed open behind them is benign, then he only takes the uterus. The ovaries stay to produce hormones.
if there seems to be even a hint of malignancy, he takes uterus, ovaries, the omentum, a strip of fat that cancer likes to use as a metastacizing stepping stone (I refrained from asking him to remove any and all strips of fat he encountered, as he seemed a pretty serious guy), and three sets of lymph glands. Hormone replacement therapy to follow. He responded to my concerns, pointing out that it's replacing what I would've produced naturally, not increasing - and that it's come a long way since the 60s/70s.
if it's adhered to the bowel, they'll have to resect (though he didn't use the word) it like garden hose (yes, that's how he explained it). Sometimes that doesn't work and a temp colostomy is needed. If all that happens, then we'll have to discuss chemo/radio-therapy.
Now, he did say that this was all worst case scenarios, and that we had to go over them so I would be fully informed...and I interrupted and said, "And 'cause you can't wake me up in the middle to discuss it." Most of these are fibroids, and 99% of those are benign, but you have to talk it all over, so there are no unpleasant surprises.
When do I want to do it? He's not saying, "We have to do it soonest, OMGOMG!!!" But we also don't want to hang about, since we don't know how fast it's grown, as there's no baseline. He has had a cancellation for Thursday 3/24... I'm on it like a goose on a junebug. The last thing he said before I left was, "I'm fairly cofident it's benign." I think that's a very strong statement in these litigious times.
I wrote a mass email (get it? :snerk: ) to my peeps, and it turns out that there's a long and storied history of fibroids in my family. In fact, my sister and I are the only two over 25 who still possess a uterus. And soon she will be all alone. (She's looking forward to her inevitable upcoming event, you betcha.)
So this Thursday is the day. I have three days to get all the paperwork for the Short Term Disability done, get a bunch of stuff at work set up for my absence, get groceries for my infirmity (pudding, yogurt, etc.), and have the furnace guys come an replace my limiter switch, which decided that Friday night was the perfect time to go bad. :> Luckily, the weather is predicted to be very mild 'til Wednesday night. And since I'll be home all day Wednesday, chugging the Golightly, won't that be convenient? :grin:
Thanks for all the well-wishes. I'm planning to update on Saturday, if what they tell me about my recovery slope holds true. Gotta go take a shower now. I just remembered that they're turning off the water in about 2.5 hours, and it won't be on when I'm getting ready for work.
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(I'm glad to hear you're mom's fine, btw.)
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