Postby betsydoglover » Mon May 04, 2009 6:52 pm
Hi Eve - I'll send you another email, but scary as it is, you'll find it relatively easy as surgery goes. Scary to go under and scary to contemplate surgery - that's always the case. Not a piece of cake the first couple of days, but I was off all pain meds 5 days after surgery, without anything resembling pain 8-9 days after surgery and digging in my yard 15 days after surgery. A little more tired than normal and incision near breast is still sensitive to touch, sort of sensitive sleeping on my operated side, but I'm essentially back to normal. I also did one hour of aerobics at 2 weeks post surgery and am getting back into regular exercise.
I'll send you another PM and will be thinking of you on 5/15. You'll be very glad these mets are gone!
Take care,
Betsy
diagnosed Stage IV, liver met, 5/05
sigmoid colectomy 6/05
6 cycles Xeloda/oxaliplatin/Avastin ended 12/05
NED from 10/05 - 11/08
Thoracoscopy (wedge resection) 4/09 (remove tiny lung nodule)
Xeloda and Avastin to start 5/18 (6 cycles Xeloda + Avastin, to be followed by Avastin only)
Betsy
diag. Stage IV, 5/05, liver met
lap sigmoid colectomy, 6/05
6 cycles Xeloda/oxaliplatin/Avastin (NED after 2)
11/08 9x13mm right lower lobe lung nodule; removed via VATS 4/09
NED
6 cycles Xeloda + Avastin
Avastin only 10/09-5/11
Still NED 06/18