Follow-Up.
Mar. 23rd, 2019 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psyche29Surgery follow-up is done. Doc says incisions and internal stuff all looks perfect. Discussed everything re: chemo, etc. today as well. This cancer (uterine/endometrial) is pretty uncommon, even rare, in women my age, much more common in women past menopause, typical age 62 or more. No hereditary factors for me. Tumor in the uterus was just over 8 cm, so about 3.5 inches. It didn't go into the muscle but since one of ten lymph nodes came back positive, it automatically becomes classified as a stage 3 cancer.
Mine is metastasized, but on a level so small, not even PET scans or MRI scans can detect it. It's less than 1 mm. There are no studies showing increased life expectancy for women my age with radiation, and due to my age, the side effects of radiation would be worse and longer lasting, so we said hell no. My doc - who is board certified and well credentialed - recommends 3-6 rounds/cycles of chemo, which has a high success rate. She stated today that if I choose to do nothing, the cancer will come back elsewhere down the road. The chemo is basically batting clean-up, so that's the plan.
I go in for the port placement Tuesday afternoon, and then the first round of chemo is next Friday (yup...happy fucking birthday to me). 👍 It takes pretty much the whole day, but is only one day every three weeks. As few as three times, as many as six.
Work is bending over backwards to make things work for me, which is amazing. I cannot express how much it means that they truly value me.
Ask whatever you like!
Mine is metastasized, but on a level so small, not even PET scans or MRI scans can detect it. It's less than 1 mm. There are no studies showing increased life expectancy for women my age with radiation, and due to my age, the side effects of radiation would be worse and longer lasting, so we said hell no. My doc - who is board certified and well credentialed - recommends 3-6 rounds/cycles of chemo, which has a high success rate. She stated today that if I choose to do nothing, the cancer will come back elsewhere down the road. The chemo is basically batting clean-up, so that's the plan.
I go in for the port placement Tuesday afternoon, and then the first round of chemo is next Friday (yup...happy fucking birthday to me). 👍 It takes pretty much the whole day, but is only one day every three weeks. As few as three times, as many as six.
Work is bending over backwards to make things work for me, which is amazing. I cannot express how much it means that they truly value me.
Ask whatever you like!
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Date: 2019-03-23 05:55 am (UTC)and also surprised & glad that your work is still so accommodating.
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Date: 2019-03-26 05:14 pm (UTC)Me, too! SO glad.
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Date: 2019-03-25 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-26 05:16 pm (UTC)