Chrissy

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Hi there,

I hope you're doing better, in body and mind. I have been in more

pain the past few days along with nausea and runny stools. Thinking

it might be the panc playing up, I just waited for it to get worse,

but it never got to the stage it used to..then yesterday, I started

to get bad pains where we found that " lump " under my previous

surgical scar from last March.

I didn't take any pain meds for it because I wanted to be able to

take to Kindermusik today. Well, lo and behold, I woke up

around 4.30am this morning in worse pain, so got up and went on the

computer until it was time to get ready. When I went to get dressed,

I noticed a bruise on my abdomen where it was hurting me so much.

That set off my panic mode, and I rang the on call doctor. He told

me to come in this afternoon and see my surgeon. I got my hubby to

take me down in case they gave me pain medicine and/or admitted me.

There are 3 tumours that have regrown. One where the pain is, a

small one at the other end of the scar area, and a golfsized tumour

of some sort on my right kidney that has to go.

Surgery is set for next Thursday, 2nd September. My belly is going

to look like a roadmap for sure now. He said that I will be cut from

below my right breast, across to the back diagonally. He isn't sure

if he'll be able to find the small tumour because it is so small,

and that might have to be a case of waiting for it to grow and then

cut it out.

I will be losing a substantial amount of abdominal muscle, so will

be more prone to hernias, therefore I will have to be careful with

lifting things etc. He mentioned a light chemo called Gleevec, but I

told him that the MD docs told me I wasn't a candidate for

Gleevec. So surgery is my only option, and he said a definite no to

radiation for prevention of further ones also, telling me that

chances are that won't stop more from growing and would only make

further surgeries more difficult...

Well, will have to go lay down for a while..took some percocet an

hour ago, and it's making me lightheaded...catch you later,