aloneandscared's Journal

I haven't written a journal in a while. Well, I ended up having persistent cancer. No treatments were working. So I ended up having a total pelvic exenteration on July 6th. I now have two ostomies, a colostomy and urostomy. And I am alive.

When they "opened" me up they found that my cancer was much worse than it was 3 weeks earlier when they did a biopsy of the small tumor and exploratory surgery. It was bad, but it wasn't in the lymph nodes so they went on with the surgery and it was over 13 hrs long but successfu. Small price to pay to save my life. They said it wasn't looking good for me if I did not have the surgery.

Since the surgery, I was rehospitalized for a week for a nasty UTI. And then this past Friday I had  outpatient surgery to have my newly constructed vagina drained and debrided for a nasty infection, now I will need a skin graft to correct that. It had to be done because it was a bad infection, I have no more pain when sitting now. YAY!!!!!

I have lost way too much weight, at my lowest......just under 70 pounds, I was originally 125 pounds. When they weighed me before surgery I was estatic, I am up to 102.5 pounds!!! YES!!!!