First the good news...
I went to see my new surgeon, Dr. Jay Owens, and he was actually having trouble finding the tumor in my breast, so he pulled out his ultrasound and told me that since all he could see was scar tissue, there sure didn't seem to be any reason for surgery! WHAT?! Did I just hear him right? No tumor? Does he realize what huge news this is?! OMG! Going from 5.2 centimeters to nothing? I might have actually seen him write down 1 cm, but it was upside down, so I'm not sure. Still, awesome news. I guess that year and a half of chemo has paid off :) Now we need to work on the rest of the cancer!
Now the bad news...
I went for that Zometa treatment on Sunday and that night I started to experience pain in my left arm, severe pain. Dr. Rohatgi had instructed me that if I had break-throughs in pain (now that I'm on the Fentanyl pain patch), to go ahead and take some Percocet. Well, the pain was at a level of 9-10 most of the time, so I was taking Percocet every 4-6 hours round the clock! It still didn't completely mask the pain, every time I even moved my arm I would get excruciating pain running down it. What the heck? Of course I'm scared because the last time I was experiencing pain out of the blue, the cancer had spread to my hips and pelvis. Well, I have scans scheduled for this Friday and also Tuesday, which can probably answer my questions. I did, by the way, email Dr. Rohatgi last night when it was still extremely bad and he had no real ideas as to why it was only in my left arm. I didn't want to put words in his mouth and ask if he thinks it's spread, so I just left well enough alone. Since his email, my pain has decreased a bit and I only took Percocet this morning. Either the stupid patch is finally working, or it was related to the Zometa treatment and it's wearing off. At any rate, my arm is still very stiff and I can hardly lift it. I hope I don't end up with a bum leg AND a bum arm, that would suck :( my pain level right now is at about a 6-7, which is tolerable.
Peace to you all ~ Love, Genie
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It was so great to get the news from the doctor. I know we both take everything that is told to us with again of salt, but info like that is too good to be ignored! I LOVE you! Be strong!
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry I didn't get a chance to call you back yesterday! I was in a 1:1 with one of my staff and she ended up crying so it was hard to kick her out of my office to call you.
ReplyDeleteWill call you later today.
Love you lots! YES! Good news!