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[drumstick diva]

Perchie, hugs, love and prayers for you. You are a major personality on BYC, I've followed your posts for years.

 

[chickadoodles]

Deb
You are in my prayers. You've got this.
The good Lord will carry you through this.

 

[drumstick diva]

amen

 

[getaclue]

Deb, thoughts and prayers are with you.

 

[perchie.girl]

I get on here for the first time in a very long time just to come on and read this? I'm so sorry to hear this. I didn't go all the way back from where I last came on, where is this cancer at? Just know that you are in my prayers. Will be coming back on more often to keep track of you young lady!

lIts in my Uterus.... we *(the docs and i) started this journey in September... Tests and ultra sound then MRI finally I had the biopsy last week. to confirm the MRI. I have a fibroid to be expected because of famiy history... but i also have a patch of cancer about two point five centemeters by one point five centemeters that is imbeded in my uterine wall high up. (most common form of cancer) Other things are going on as well the whole uterus is way thicker than normal...

ITs been torture not knowing and seeing the expression on my docs face... But now knowing and having a game plan its like I have shrugged ofrf a huge weight of self induced scenarious... to be replaced by a manageable tangeable game plan... Make sense?

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, if you've got questions that you're not getting answered about meds or side effects and you trust me, feel free to pm me.

Please don't be too scarce. I know it is energy to deal with us, but having a good supportive community, even if we are virtual, helps with the healing and the mental health.

I will for sure... thankyou so much

 

[perchie.girl]

Off to go take some Alieve... My knee is screaming at me....

 

[microchick]

Perchie, I am so glad that you have a good relationship with your doctor and the degree of trust that you have with you care team is high. Doctors never like to be the conveyors of bad news to patients. The fact that they have a plan for your treatment also is good for you and takes a lot of the stress off of your shoulders.

The road ahead is going to be rough for you for awhile but like all rough roads, it'll smooth out eventually.

Usually the worst part is not knowing. Knowing will allow you to prepare yourself mentally, emotionally and physically for what lies down that bumpy road.

And like SGC said, we are all here for you. In the interim, pamper yourself. Lots of rest, good healthy food and exercise. Deep breathe to strengthen your lungs and do whatever you can to make your post op easiest on you.

 

[bruceha2000]

lIts in my Uterus.... we *(the docs and i) started this journey in September... Tests and ultra sound then MRI finally I had the biopsy last week. to confirm the MRI. I have a fibroid to be expected because of famiy history... but i also have a patch of cancer about two point five centemeters by one point five centemeters that is imbeded in my uterine wall high up. (most common form of cancer) Other things are going on as well the whole uterus is way thicker than normal...

ITs been torture not knowing and seeing the expression on my docs face... But now knowing and having a game plan its like I have shrugged ofrf a huge weight of self induced scenarious... to be replaced by a manageable tangeable game plan... Make sense?

deb

You bet it does and that was the gist of what I was going to post along with lots of
Sure it would have been nice to get an "all clear" we would all want that. But I think you suspected this was going to be the diagnosis. Surgery in a week is better than "we'll keep looking at it until we figure out what is going on.

I've "known" you for what, 5 years? Strong, intelligent, logic driven, self sufficient woman. You know we are all rooting for you to come through this as quickly as possible.

 

[chickisoup]

Do you have hobbies to keep you amused?

Well, up here first you tackle the pile of "round to it" projects that you have put off "for when the snow flies" like the big windchime the bear cub decided to destroy in early summer and whatever else that got broken over the summer that was not critical to be fixed, painted, etc. Next repairing whatever work coat, pants, boots, shirts that had a rough go with all the hectic summer chores. Then come January is catalog time. Planning (and dreaming) what to plant where in the three different herb/veggie garden areas (no, I gave up on the whole flower garden thing and planted one with perennial wildflowers and the other with rosebushes). Then there is trying not to order every cute chick in my favorite hatchery catalog. (oh great, I just received an email from Hoovers' that they are adding 16 new breeds and I will receive an E version of the catalog before Christmas!!!). Next, I have an entire room full of half finished craft projects, well used to. I finally surrendered and shipped all my semiprecious stones, wire, tools, etc. from my jewelry making to the granddaughters. My first love is my woodcarving anyway. Several of those projects still in their "natural" form, aka chunks of dried basswood harvested from our woods waiting to become ???? next to the carefully tended and molded as they grew sticks of wild cherry saplings that hung drying in the top of the garage all summer (some two summers) that are waiting to become walking sticks with woodspirit handles. Oh, and I must not forget the snow shoveling, the endless snow shoveling from the runs, the walkways, the roofs. Did I mention already that the sweet DH bought me a brand new snow thrower? Got to love hybernation. Whatever shall I do when I get old?