weezie's Cancer Blog
April 26, 2008
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Just wanted to update eveyone on my last few months walking through the corridor of fear, waiting on test results that seemed as far away as the moon. Since my first visit with my new Oncologists last August in 2007, there was always a fear and surprise that my small itsy bitty tumour that had been removed (no cancer in any nodes), 26 treatments of radiation, had moved to my spine! OMG was I just swimming in terror. “How could that be?”, I asked. They shook their heads and scratched their _. “Well we really need to be proactive here”, so we will put you on Arimidex, (and of course most of you know the side effects of a drug that takes away estrogen for women or progerteron for males. It sucks.) Here I go again, night sweats, aches and pains in my whole body, sleep deprivation and oh yes, give me some of those Hungry Man meals. Can’t stop eating. All in the face of statitics. Breast Cancer survivors need to take these drugs to surivive. OK, got it. Then the Dr.’s wanting to tell me some good news said this ” We will give you another bone scan, a ct and an MRI, then we will re evaluate the situation in January. Ok here we are and it is April. I had another MRI and another bone scan in March. So I now have 4 sets of Radiologist’s reports for bone scan, bone density, MRI’s and this is the situation. The area of concern is stationary. No movement which is what the Oncologists were hoping for. So that means no spread of the Cancer at least till the next Bone Scan in August. Since the Dr.’s can not biopsy the spine very easily to be definitive about the Cancer, they are relying on SCANS. So for now you might call me ON HOLIDAY and smelling every fresh new flower that comes up. I’m taking my bone enhanching medicine – CLASTEON faithfully. Now that drug is supposed to counter act the side effects of the Arimidex but quite frankly that is all hog wash. I THINK THE SAYING GOES: NO PAIN, NO GAIN. Al right already I get it and so do the millions out there who are dreading their meds. Not only do we have Cancer we have another diease BLIND FAITH. OK, I am stopping the bad stuff now. Anyone tell me how to download a photo. I thought it might be nice if I could post something other than my cartoon of myself. Oh glorious weather today in ONtario. Oh yes and good old TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) decided to go on strike last night Friday at 11pm. Can’t you just see the lawsuits coming from Mothers who have 12 year old daughters stranded with all those boogy men out there. What a Mayor we have. He should just go away. Millions of people are without transportation all weekend and well into the work week. I think the retailers are going to have something to say about this too. OK enough ranting. See you later. Weezie from Canada eh
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boy that sounds much better. I bet the news made you happy. Will you still kepp on taking this other medication? I need to have the doctor do a bone scan on me when I see him I guess I have not had one done. Anyway keep up the good work!
Judy; thanks for your question. Yes, I am doing pretty much what the Dr.’s recommend. The bone enhancing drugs (bisphosphonates -general term for a group of them), are absolutely imperative. Just think of it. You have all your estrogen removed by one drug, and yes your bones are going to deteriote in a flash. It doesn’t tale a scoemtost to tell you that a woman with no disease will naturally have bone disease, even more than a man. Once you are on a drug to remove all the natural estrogen you really need a replacement drug to make sure your bones don’t break or become brittle. So yes make sure you are doing the most to protect yourself. So for now I am still toleration Arimidex, and Clasteon (for bones). Just worked myself into a frenzy doing backyard work and guess what, I feel better for it. The aches and pains will only get worse if you sit and think about it. Do whatever it takes to make the process better. Believe and have faith that the Dr.’s are helping you and that even though you are in pain, work through it if you can. I was very upset for a few months, likely feeling sorry for myself, but after reviewing so many other people’s story on this site I realized that this is not the time to do the negative but jump up and try, really TRY to push yourself. IT WORKS> Love to you Judy and get with the programe. Weezie
ok I will surely do as ordered….lol I have been trying to move around a little more here lately and suck up the pains. I am going in about a week for my routine bloodwork and to see the family doctor…I am sure he thinks I forgot him in the shuffle of all these other doctors…I think I like him best though and I believe he would run more test and check things I want checked more so then the cancer docs….Glad you had good news again!
Good news! I am so glad to hear good news.
Blessings and health to you
Mac