Question...ok, several questions

July 14, 2005

Hi everyone,

I've been waiting to post until I had my thoughts together. My mom was

suppose to have a pelvic exoneration done this month. But yet another surgeon

came

along and clipped that very thin thread we were hanging by...again. Seems

like everytime someone things of something they might be able to do, its not

workable.

What I was wondering, is I hear all these great stories of people with stage

IV and stage III that go into remission and live many years. Does anyone out

there know of someone who was UNABLE to have their tumor removed? My moms is

rectal cancer, since they did not remove it they only removed one lymph node

from the groin because it was the size of a golf ball and it was positive for

cancer. So far they haven't seen anything in her liver. This last set of

surgeons explained her tumor as frozen into the pelvic bone, and thats why its

not

removable because she would never heal, they would have to hack away so much

pelvic bone, ect. they tumor is very large and takes up alot of the entire

pelvic area.

She's still having alot of pain but right now they are increasing her

oxcontin (spelling?) to try to find a good dose.

I guess I just wish I could find someone who has gone through something

similar so we have a clue whats going on. Onc dr says we just keep going with

what

they are doing, the chemo. The surgeons originally thought 6 months at best

and its been 8.

Any comments are greatly welcome.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

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