Okay, I am more than mad . . . Turns out we do have the EUS report (my error - sleeping 3-4 hours a night for weeks makes me dull). There is no staging info given whatsoever. So wondering if the oncologist even gave us the entire report. Taking everything we have to the surgeon next week. He has giv...
I think the main 'problem' with CTCA is they come across as 'salemanish' being mainly interested in profit. It gets in the way of what they have to offer. Have no experience with them but several friends looked into them and were 'put off' enough not to give them a chance. (Nothing to do with what p...
Thinking more about what we were told at the time . . . once the doctors all got together, they felt the chemo/rad prior to surgery was a 'better safe than sorry' option, but left it up to us to decide. The radiation oncologist mentioned being 'on the fence' but better to err on the side of caution....
No one gave us a 'staging' prior to surgery, but I'll ask the oncologist tomorrow. The only possibility is if there was a stage given after the EUS that was done prior to surgery - we don't have a copy of that report yet, but the doctor that did the EUS told us that the lymph nodes he saw looked a b...
Thanks for the responses, ladies! I was planning to mention it to the oncologist tomorrow, but wanted some input from our 'trusted source' of all things CRC.
Sheila, love your 'member' name - my Nanna's name was Rosa . . .
Three weeks out from colon resection surgery, JG has no appetite. He eats b/c he knows he needs to, but insists he is just not feeling hunger at all. He spent an extra week in the hospital b/c his digestive system simply would not 'wake up'. After surgery on the 14th, he did not have a BM until the ...
A cancer researcher from the Hillman Cancer Center in PA spoke at a local Relay for Life kick-off a few years ago and said that it should be called re-re-re-re-research. Reason is they get started and get so far along and some little thing stops that path; so they have to start over from the beginni...
Believing strongly in the power of prayer (regardless of the answer) and positive energy, we told pretty much everyone we know, when we ran into them. Another reason was I'm too old and forgetful to remember who knew and who didn't; also old enough to know that secrets don't stay that way long, huma...
Thanks so much, juliej! That eases my mind a lot! A colonoscopy in one year is exactly what the surgeon told us. Feels a bit silly to be even a wee bit nervous. So many here are facing much higher risk and the decisions that presents. I've found tho' that the C-word brings fear into your life no mat...
We like the purple-ification (say that three times real fast . . .) that happens May-July around here - the color for Relay for Life, which we've been a part of locally for many years - money raised goes to all types of the nasty C. PURPLE RULES!!!
Tomorrow is our first post-surgical follow-up appointment with the oncologist (the one I've mentioned elsewhere that we are sort of 'on the fence' about). We'll find out if he recommends additional chemo for JG. Pathology report was very good. 10 lymph nodes (7 of which required an "exhaustive ...
Can't really add anything to what others have said . . . but we were told over and over again that 'attitude' helps immensely when going on these nasty C journeys. I think yours is great! Three rules: 1) Fight like hell; 2) Don't give up; and 3) repeat 1) & 2).