Yesterday I went for my Zometa treatment (which is my monthly bone treatment) and my left shoulder was hurting so badly I was almost in tears. The nurses suggested that I go down to the ER and have an xray because they were afraid I might have a fracture. The good news is that it's not broken, however, the bad news is that I have Metastatic Lesions on my Humerus. This means that although my cancer hasn't spread in my shoulder, it's become quite inflamed and could easily break in that area.
Well, this morning I had an appointment with my Oncologist, Dr. Rohatgi, and he decided that the Tamoxifen wasn't working for me and said that he wants me back on Radiation treatment to alleviate some of the intense pain in my shoulder. Since I can't have chemo and radiation at the same time, he is actually going to leave me on the Tamoxifen for one more month and when I see him next, we'll be switching to an oral chemo. He also recently gave me a stronger Fentanyl patch (for pain) and it was actually working for a couple days until my shoulder started acting up, and now I've had to take 2 Percocet plus the patch every 4 hours and it's still not enough. Today he increased the strength of the Percocet and by this afternoon I started to feel much better. Wow, it's been intense. Tomorrow afternoon I start back on radiation and hopefully within a few days things will be much better.
On the brighter side, today we went to lunch with my brother Frank and his family, it sure was fun. Although we don't live far from each other, we just never seem to find the time to visit as often as we should. Frank and Monica are two of the sweetest people around and I'm very fortunate to be able to call them family, so we should MAKE the time more often. They also have two awesome boys who I love dearly and are now growing up so quickly I hardly recognize them. Someday I'm sure Frankie will become the professional baseball player that he's always wanted to be, and then there's the cutie-pie Zach who could end up being the president he's such a little smartie. I love you guys to pieces, thanks for meeting us for lunch today.
Peace to you all ~ Love, Genie
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