A Noob with a Question
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 2:27 pm
Not new to having cancer, just to this forum...
I am a 31 year old with stage IV met. I was originally diagnosed at stage IIC in the Summer of 2007 (my 3 year comes in 3 days) after being misdiagnosed with IBS. I've gone through radiation, chemo (folfox, folfiri, and irinotecan) and surgeries (rectal, liver, and lung). I went a year clean after the lung surgery, but recently found out that it's back in the liver. This time around they won't be able to resect just a piece of it - they're going to have to take the right lobe. I go in tomorrow for a portal vein embolization, then the big surgery is at the end of July. My question is - does anyone know how I can expect my diet to change following the big surgery? I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere and would like to start transitioning to my new diet in the next month so that it isn't a sudden change.
I am so happy to have found this forum. Like others here, I've become an honorary octagenarian! I look around treatment rooms and all I see are old people. In my first appointments all the doctors told me I'm too young to have this. More importantly to me though, like others here, I don't see this as a poor pity me campaign. I look healthy since I've had a year off therapies and people see me as a healthy person, but when I broke the news about the cancer being back in the liver, they suddenly saw me as sickly. People must think that I'm nuts, but in some ways I have seen this as a blessing. It has brought me so much closer to my family and that is always something I will appreciate. It has also made me realize how much we take for granted and it made me savor every aspect of life. My family, friends, and doctors are all amazed at my continued positive attitude, but they tell me it's contagious too. I'm so glad to have found a place where I'm not alone in that attitude!
~ Phuong
I am a 31 year old with stage IV met. I was originally diagnosed at stage IIC in the Summer of 2007 (my 3 year comes in 3 days) after being misdiagnosed with IBS. I've gone through radiation, chemo (folfox, folfiri, and irinotecan) and surgeries (rectal, liver, and lung). I went a year clean after the lung surgery, but recently found out that it's back in the liver. This time around they won't be able to resect just a piece of it - they're going to have to take the right lobe. I go in tomorrow for a portal vein embolization, then the big surgery is at the end of July. My question is - does anyone know how I can expect my diet to change following the big surgery? I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere and would like to start transitioning to my new diet in the next month so that it isn't a sudden change.
I am so happy to have found this forum. Like others here, I've become an honorary octagenarian! I look around treatment rooms and all I see are old people. In my first appointments all the doctors told me I'm too young to have this. More importantly to me though, like others here, I don't see this as a poor pity me campaign. I look healthy since I've had a year off therapies and people see me as a healthy person, but when I broke the news about the cancer being back in the liver, they suddenly saw me as sickly. People must think that I'm nuts, but in some ways I have seen this as a blessing. It has brought me so much closer to my family and that is always something I will appreciate. It has also made me realize how much we take for granted and it made me savor every aspect of life. My family, friends, and doctors are all amazed at my continued positive attitude, but they tell me it's contagious too. I'm so glad to have found a place where I'm not alone in that attitude!
~ Phuong