So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[Outpost JWB]

@sumi. Special prayers for you tonight as you have your biopsies tomorrow. Praying that they are benign. If it's like my dermatologist office you won't know for sure for a week. But, if your dermatologist is anything like mine, they know.

I am in total agreement to bypass the family dr and see a dermatologist. Well get some rest and remember the serenity prayer.

 

[N F C]

Sumi, you'll be in my thoughts tomorrow. Praying all goes well for you.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Phil, it's funny what all your and my family have in common. DD is now 10. My son (youngest of our 3 older kids) was 13 when I had DD. I was on pill, but dr did biopsy. Hubby and I had been married about 6 months. Thought I might have cervical cancer. 2 months later, I knew I was pregnant. The week after I told DH, he had quadruple bypass heart surgery. We used to worry all the time that DD won't grow up to know her daddy. But everyday she is growing and learning and such an incredible blessing from God.

Life can be a unpredictable journey that's for sure...
Just keep up the fight and no matter what you win.

My son keep me motivated, to keep fighting, not just the cancer, but all the other things life has thrown at me over the last year...

Sumi, you'll be in my thoughts tomorrow. Praying all goes well for you.

×2.....let us know...

 

[sumi]

@sumi . Special prayers for you tonight as you have your biopsies tomorrow. Praying that they are benign. If it's like my dermatologist office you won't know for sure for a week. But, if your dermatologist is anything like mine, they know.

I am in total agreement to bypass the family dr and see a dermatologist. Well get some rest and remember the serenity prayer.

Thank you

I'm going to spend today getting ready, do some shopping, clean house as much as I can… Focussing on the practical stuff. Tomorrow early I'm going, they changed my appointment time yesterday, resulting in a mad scramble to rearrange everything, from child care to transport. Ugh, like I'm not stressed enough already?

Gosh, you're lucky, I waited about 2 weeks after the first surgery, only to be told it's a melanoma. NOTHING more. She couldn't tell me what stage it was, nothing. Another 3 weeks passed before she contacted me again and told me it was stage 3, which later turned out to be incorrect! I then had to wait a MONTH before the hospital she referred me to got in touch, booked my follow up surgery etc. They told me it was stage 1 only, I had to come in for radioactive dye injections 3 days later, followed by wider incision surgery and lymph node removal the next day… Another 3 week wait for those results. My GP phoned the hospital eventually, because they wouldn't tell me anything and insisted they tell him what's going on. He phoned me that evening to let me know the results. I was fit to be tied by then. I hope this next round is going to be better… I don't think I can go through that again.

 

[sumi]

Quote: Thank you… will do

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

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[Outpost JWB]

[@=/u/97969/sumi]@sumi[/@]. Special prayers for you tonight as you have your biopsies tomorrow. Praying that they are benign. If it's like my dermatologist office you won't know for sure for a week. But, if your dermatologist is anything like mine, they know.


I am in total agreement to bypass the family dr and see a dermatologist. Well get some rest and remember the serenity prayer.

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That is one of the good things about the surgery I had to have MOHS surgery. I had a world renowned surgeon (Dr. Brett Coldiron) did the 1st part-removed the Cancer. He has done over 50,000 successful MOHS surgeries. I waited in the waiting room with a bandage loosely wrapped around my head. Dr Coldiron took the skin under a microscope, made sure he got it all & if he didn't, I would know he had to remove more within the hour. So much better than having to heal, go back, have it all done again.

I am praying for you!

 

[sumi]

It is done! Went o.k. the doc and nurse were absolutely amazing, both of them. Really sweet and nice, the nurse even came over to hold my hand when they doc anaesthetised the area, knowing that is (ironically IMO) a painful procedure, though I don't mind the pain, I certainly didn't mind the handholding either! lol She opted to remove the moles separately and she went deep, she told me she put internal as well as surface stitches... Me being otherwise have an allergy to most dressings, so to play it safe, she patched me up with gauze and loads of sticky tape. Which is now threatening to let go with every move I make. I'm going to visit the local clinic tomorrow and see what we can do about dressings.

The results will only be available in 6 WEEKS… This is going to kill me. But, at least the surgery bit's out of the way and hopefully this will be it now. She said they may just be "atypical" moles (benign), but they may be melanoma, so we'll see?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Wow that's a long wait. Glad it went okay.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

SUMI...I will keep you in my prayers.
Let us know please.
The reason I tried to bring this thread back to life was i had a feeling there were people out there who could use a little support.
I wish there would have been someplace like this when I was sick.