What is Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. Broadly, most chemotherapeutic drugs work by impairing mitosis (cell division), effectively targeting fast-dividing...
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Tuesday December 1, 2009
Frustrating Stories
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Yesterday's appointment with the port surgeon was quite confusing go figure as all of this has no rhythm or reason. He made me wait over an hour, talked about his personal business in front of the waiting room to his staff and then took down the medical history from the very beginning. I felt listened to..... until. I had been retaining alot of fluid and I informed him that I had ...
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what the surgeon said....
Let's do a scope upper gi and colonoscopy. My emptying test well... it showed I had severe swelling in my stomach and esophagus. Also the ulcers.. DUH we have know this for months now. I was relieved that he thinks we aren't dealing with Cancer which makes me happy, but the pain level of about an 8 makes me not quite have the energy to jump for j...1 Recommendation5 Comments -
Tangie is getting there but unfortunately it will take a couple of weeks for the medicine to take full effect. She is still lethargic but she is sleeping in her bed a lot more. She is so smart that at times I can't believe it myself how smart she is. I am going to pick her up after I finish my journal. Well today was a day of sleep for me because even though I sit in a...1 Recommendation3 Comments
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Well I have a new disease to get used to. I went out for two days (how exhausting can it be to push on a toggle to run an electric wheelchair?) and then slept for two days. Between the MS, the Fybro, and now the Addison's all are supposed to cause fatigue and that's what happened. I am worried about getting the tooth pulled because that is surgery in a way an...1 Recommendation7 Comments
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I feel like sleeping beauty - just waiting for the frog (prince)!
Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
by: galed7956
Well I've turned into an expert sleeper. This morning the visiting nurse woke me up with a surprise visit - changing the foley which I have trying to get done through them since I left the hospital at the end of Sept. It was interesting because I had to chuck all my medicine right away including the Florinef because she was going to get a wacky reading. She did twice. ...1 Recommendation5 Comments -
Well I have Tangie fasting for the 24 hours so that I can feel her the boiled chicken and rice after she fasts to get rid of the diareah. She lays in front of her food bowl and seeping right now. I feel so bad because she is used to having food in that bowl all day long. It's like I'm torturing her and I don't mean to. We'll get through it. We&#...1 Recommendation3 Comments
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Nick is still so confused and I'm ok as far as the nodule!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
by: galed7956
Well I had the mammo done and the ultrasound done and the only thing that they found that looked remotely like a nodule was a lymph gland that was as tiny as the nodule was supposed to be and it was in back of my breast not in my breast. I don't understand how a good radiologist could miss that one. He couldn't tell a lymph node from a nodule? Well anyway every...1 Recommendation3 Comments -
I don't know what there is to pray for anymore. I have an aquaintence on here that was in the same or more pain that I was in before I got the pump. She was so happy because I had sent her a message with Medtronic's phone numbers on it and told her to call at least on of the numbers and they would give her a doc's name that implanted it in her area. She has kid...1 Recommendation6 Comments
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I have to talk about today and tommorow tommorow. I have to get some sleep since I didn't sleep at all last night and I have a 11am doc's appt tommorow. Have a geat and restful night and I'll tell you the interesting story of the past two days in one entry which might take 2 days to read!! Huggs galed1 Recommendation3 Comments
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So far, I have had 2 HUGE writing assignments and then I just spent the last hour and a half doing a web scavenger hunt. What pisses me off is that I am the first one to post the answers so fingers crossed, everyone else will do their own work.
I am feeling unmotivated and a bit "overwhelmed" maybe bored with school fits in here too, with my new roles lately.
Being sick has ta...1 Recommendation4 Comments
