I need to have more surgery also

[Guest guest]

,

I am so sorry to hear you are having a rough time. I will keep you in my

prayers. I know you are tired of having surgery! Take care!

Angie in SC

" The happiest of people don't necessarily have the

best of everything; they just make the best of everything that comes along

their way. "

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone, I've only been on spasmodically the past few weeks. I

haven't been doing that great, and when I have had good moments, I

haven't wanted to be spending it online.

I stretched out my next CT scan as long as I could, have been having

pain since my last surgery, and it's been getting worse. I was

supposed to try and wait until the middle of June for my next scan,

but felt I needed it done sooner, and am glad I did.

The existing pain is still undiagnosible. Could be a pocket of air

trapped in scar tissue which my body has made lots of and forced my

scar to stick out a mile, or a rarer chance that it could be an

abcess, yet I have not shown any signs of that (fever, rash,

infections) and it is so far past surgery (9 months) that the doctor

thinks it is unlikely.

I told him I had been getting some new pain in the middle of both my

previous surgical sites over the past 2 weeks, and when I touched

the area that is tender, he told me that is the exact site where a

new tumour is growing. It is the size of a quarter already. I

usually feel the pain at onset of growth, so if that is still the

case, this one is very aggressive.

He is getting the CT results from Feb up in Cleveland to see if that

truly was clear, and when he views that, will call me to organise a

surgery date. I want to put it off until the end of June as my mum

needs to prepare to come over here from Australia, and I have a few

commitments from last year that I can't put on the backburner yet

again.

During this surgery, he will stick a needle in my scarline where the

air/abscess is guided by ultrasound and see what comes out or

doesn't happen...then feel me up with antibiotics to try and prevent

an infection.

Anyway, that is my latest news, and I will try to be more regular

etc on here in future,

Regards,

Ward

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