Faithfully Fighting

Well, I saw my plastic surgeon yesterday.  He called me his problem child!  I told him I was fine until everyone started poking at me.  He told me he was continuing the IV antibiotic therapy until Monday, then we would have to see if the infection returned.  It’s looking really good right now, so hopefully it will be gone for good.

Yesterday, during my IV treatment, my oncologist came up to me with my liver biopsy results.  I have a new diagnosis, Metastatic breast cancer.  That means the spots they found on the liver were cancer.  I have an appointment with my doctor on Thursday to go over details of the new treatment regiment.  Our conversation yesterday mostly consisted of a pep talk.  I could tell he doesn’t want me to get down.  I’ve got a bit of a battle ahead of me and he wanted me to understand that we are moving forward aggressively attacking the cancer.  What this really means is that the word “cure” probably won’t be coming up again.  We will be hunting for “remission”.  I’ll get more details on Thursday.  He did talk about another patient he has, similar in age to me, and other factors (he mentioned her having school age children, and similar “religious” views-his words) with almost identical diagnosis, that he would like to introduce me to.  He thought we would be a good support system for each other, in addition to our current friends and family.  He had already talked to her and she was willing, so he wants me to thing about that.  I thought that was very thoughtful of him.

So, in the meantime, I’m still hooking up to IVs every day and starting to feel like a pin cushion.  I am talking to the surgeon today about getting a Medi-port (that’s a semi-permanent port under the skin for them to take blood and attach IVs without poking veins).  I won’t have chemo this week as previously scheduled, but will probably start my new regiment next week.  I’m hoping to get back to work some next week too.  This every day to the hospital is making me feel sicker than I am.  I’ll update everyone after my appointment on Thursday.  Thanks for the prayers, keep up the work, Love you guys.

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