Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Another update
The nodules in my lungs are where the cancer has metastasized to So I am having a full body cat scan tomorrow to see if it went anywhere else and will be seeing the oncologist on Friday or Monday. I will be needing chemotherapy and at my appointment I will find out how much and the stage of my cancer and everything else. I think my first treatment will be next week. Please keep praying for me. I know the Lord will take care of everything I am just really scared of all the side effects of the chemo. So please PRAY!!!!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Life update
So I have waited quite a bit to post an update on our blog. It was a little bit on purpose but not so much. I believe everyone pretty much has found out what has happened these last 6 weeks if not here is the rundown. WARNING!!! This is a very long story and there is a lot of talk of blood and medical procedures so read at your own risk!
March 9 Th I went to the Dr for a check up on my blood pressures for my pregnancy. My pressures were no good so they sent me directly to labor and delivery to take Maxwell out.
Maxwell was born around 1 pm 5 lbs. 14 oz. 19 3/4 inches long (a very tiny boy, just skin and bones!)and we went to recovery. In recovery they noticed his face seemed a little different and they called in the pediatrician. Come to find out Maxwell has Facial Palsy on the right side of his face. Basically the right side of his face is paralyzed. It isn't really noticeable unless he is upset and his right eye doesn't blink and takes awhile to close when he goes to sleep. So you can often find him sleeping with one eye open. Good news is it doesn't effect him to badly right now. We just need to be careful to keep his eye moist and protected from any scratches so he doesn't go blind in that eye. So back on to recovery..
So they sent me to my room and 2 days after my surgery I was in alot of pain. I told the nurse while I was bawling in pain from walking and she checked my incision and called the Dr. Apparently I had HELLP syndrome and my body was destroying my white blood cells and I wasn't clotting so I was bleeding into my incision! The Dr immediately ordered two pints of blood for me stat and there was my first blood transfusion.
2 days later I was better and getting ready to go home when I spiked a fever! Then came a battery of test to find an infection. I had blood drawn, urine tested and chest x-ray done. I guess they found a bladder infection and also found nodules in my lungs. The nodules could have been cancer but I have since had a cat scan and they say they are benign and I just have to have cat scans every six months to monitor them.
So now I am home recovering and almost two weeks after being home I am having heavy bleeding. I went to the Dr and they put me on some medicine to get it to stop, sent me to get an ultrasound to make sure I didn't have any retained pregnancy products and told me to go to the er if it didn't improve. I went to the er that night and the put me on more meds to get it to stop.
A few days later I woke up bleeding very badly and in extreme pain. I had to call the ambulance to take me to the hospital. After 15 hrs of bleeding out in the er, seriously I was in and out of consciousness and my legs were turning blue, a Dr who knew what he was doing and came in and said "she is hemorrhaging and needs blood now!" I was then getting my second blood transfusion and then wheeled into the or for a DNC that was to take 20 min. 2 HOURS later the Dr came out and said he did everything he could to stop the bleeding and he thinks he did it but I was not out of the woods yet. I woke up in my room and didn't remember much.
2 days later the bleeding started back up again and I was so done so I said take out my uterus. They had my uterus out within a couple of hours and with one more blood transfusion I was on the road to recovery. The Dr's said my uterus was pretty much falling to pieces when they took it out. A few days later I got to come home.
One week after my total hysterectomy I got a call from my Dr. Apparently I had cancer. Choriocarcinoma to be exact. Luckily he said they did the right thing in taking out my uterus. So now I am getting my blood drawn every week for the next ten weeks to see if the cancer hormones come down. If they get down to 0 I will be cancer free! If they stop coming down or start going up I will be sent to the oncologist for chemo and whatever else they need to do.
I am praying that I will be cancer free but know that the Lord has it all under control and I WILL TRUST IN HIM!!! I am not saying I haven't lost it once or twice OR maybe a few more times then that but ultimately the Lord is good and He will be glorified no matter what!!! AMEN?
So that is it for now I will keep posting updates on my lab numbers. For now here is a few pictures of Maxwell :)
March 9 Th I went to the Dr for a check up on my blood pressures for my pregnancy. My pressures were no good so they sent me directly to labor and delivery to take Maxwell out.
Maxwell was born around 1 pm 5 lbs. 14 oz. 19 3/4 inches long (a very tiny boy, just skin and bones!)and we went to recovery. In recovery they noticed his face seemed a little different and they called in the pediatrician. Come to find out Maxwell has Facial Palsy on the right side of his face. Basically the right side of his face is paralyzed. It isn't really noticeable unless he is upset and his right eye doesn't blink and takes awhile to close when he goes to sleep. So you can often find him sleeping with one eye open. Good news is it doesn't effect him to badly right now. We just need to be careful to keep his eye moist and protected from any scratches so he doesn't go blind in that eye. So back on to recovery..
So they sent me to my room and 2 days after my surgery I was in alot of pain. I told the nurse while I was bawling in pain from walking and she checked my incision and called the Dr. Apparently I had HELLP syndrome and my body was destroying my white blood cells and I wasn't clotting so I was bleeding into my incision! The Dr immediately ordered two pints of blood for me stat and there was my first blood transfusion.
2 days later I was better and getting ready to go home when I spiked a fever! Then came a battery of test to find an infection. I had blood drawn, urine tested and chest x-ray done. I guess they found a bladder infection and also found nodules in my lungs. The nodules could have been cancer but I have since had a cat scan and they say they are benign and I just have to have cat scans every six months to monitor them.
So now I am home recovering and almost two weeks after being home I am having heavy bleeding. I went to the Dr and they put me on some medicine to get it to stop, sent me to get an ultrasound to make sure I didn't have any retained pregnancy products and told me to go to the er if it didn't improve. I went to the er that night and the put me on more meds to get it to stop.
A few days later I woke up bleeding very badly and in extreme pain. I had to call the ambulance to take me to the hospital. After 15 hrs of bleeding out in the er, seriously I was in and out of consciousness and my legs were turning blue, a Dr who knew what he was doing and came in and said "she is hemorrhaging and needs blood now!" I was then getting my second blood transfusion and then wheeled into the or for a DNC that was to take 20 min. 2 HOURS later the Dr came out and said he did everything he could to stop the bleeding and he thinks he did it but I was not out of the woods yet. I woke up in my room and didn't remember much.
2 days later the bleeding started back up again and I was so done so I said take out my uterus. They had my uterus out within a couple of hours and with one more blood transfusion I was on the road to recovery. The Dr's said my uterus was pretty much falling to pieces when they took it out. A few days later I got to come home.
One week after my total hysterectomy I got a call from my Dr. Apparently I had cancer. Choriocarcinoma to be exact. Luckily he said they did the right thing in taking out my uterus. So now I am getting my blood drawn every week for the next ten weeks to see if the cancer hormones come down. If they get down to 0 I will be cancer free! If they stop coming down or start going up I will be sent to the oncologist for chemo and whatever else they need to do.
I am praying that I will be cancer free but know that the Lord has it all under control and I WILL TRUST IN HIM!!! I am not saying I haven't lost it once or twice OR maybe a few more times then that but ultimately the Lord is good and He will be glorified no matter what!!! AMEN?
So that is it for now I will keep posting updates on my lab numbers. For now here is a few pictures of Maxwell :)
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