teacher2017 wrote:Hi all-
Just wanted to know when this scananxiety will end!?! I’m so terrified - this scan is tomorrow and it feels like I’m newly diagnosed. I think of reoccurence and surgery and chemo and it makes me want to throw up! What do you do to keep yourself from thinking the worst? I feel fine but we all know Some people have cancer and feel fine. I need this nightmare to end. Those LNs just make me crazy! I don’t see a lot of people on this board with lots of LNs involved. Are they dead? I need to run and breathe...
heiders33 wrote:I am in your exact same shoes. Mine is probably cancer and I'll have to have it surgically removed. I know it feels like you can't catch a break, but you don't know for sure if it's cancer yet, and it's better to know now than later. It's frustrating, right, since we just ended treatment recently. Good luck with the MRI.
teacher2017 wrote:heiders33 wrote:I am in your exact same shoes. Mine is probably cancer and I'll have to have it surgically removed. I know it feels like you can't catch a break, but you don't know for sure if it's cancer yet, and it's better to know now than later. It's frustrating, right, since we just ended treatment recently. Good luck with the MRI.
Some things I wanted to share- Onc said that Cea level is low so it is rare that a spot would exist. It could be a cyst, hematoma or actually cancer. A hematoma can happen after heavy meds like chemo. Also there was no lymph activity in the ctscan. People sometimes have cysts in their liver. Period. I also was told by the Onc thst colon cancer in the liver is curable if caught early enough. What did the dr say to you?
DonutHead wrote:teacher2017 wrote:heiders33 wrote:I am in your exact same shoes. Mine is probably cancer and I'll have to have it surgically removed. I know it feels like you can't catch a break, but you don't know for sure if it's cancer yet, and it's better to know now than later. It's frustrating, right, since we just ended treatment recently. Good luck with the MRI.
Some things I wanted to share- Onc said that Cea level is low so it is rare that a spot would exist. It could be a cyst, hematoma or actually cancer. A hematoma can happen after heavy meds like chemo. Also there was no lymph activity in the ctscan. People sometimes have cysts in their liver. Period. I also was told by the Onc thst colon cancer in the liver is curable if caught early enough. What did the dr say to you?
You don't know until you know! This is not easy, will get better with time, but will always be difficult. Do not sell yourself yourself short, not now. You caught your first break when you found it the first time. The next break came when you were NED after surgery then chemo and your last scans. No matter what it is, you caught a break by identifying and dealing with whatever it is before it had the chance to go bad on you. you got this!
DonutHead wrote:teacher,
any updates? you are definitely in our prayers. i am in the process of scheduling my first 6 month check up for mid september. had to come to oman for a few days of diving to get my own head straight.
you know, all of this had made me realize that i am not as invincible as i always thought. but the thing to rememer is that we are alive! we must embrace every moment that we have that much more!
hope you getting the answers we all want to hear!
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