Wow! Look At That!

"Wow!  Look at that!" Dr. B said as he began my exam. Perhaps if I'd been in this position I might have been able to look

 

Ummm, but I wasn't anywhere close to that comfy,  so I sent my stand-in (the nurse) to see and I heard her say, "That's soooo cool!"

Bottom line (yes, pun intended) Dr. B told me my monster is getting to be just a puny shadow of its' former size!  Of course I knew it was shrinking but even the doc was impressed and very relieved. As it turns out he was in a "serious conundrum" his quote, as to how internal radiation was going to take place.  Seems the size, location and weird position of my monster had the team scrambling to get the precision parts and/or a special place for me to go.  Internal radiation is even more precise than external and he said they were not equipped there with the tools to handle my monster.  But being blasted with radiation has made that issue a non-problem, as they can now go in with what is on hand.  It is obvious I am a miracle patient to them; regardless what they said they had serious doubts at first that I'd survive this cancer.  They began to catch my enthusiasm when the PET Scan showed just that lonely monster all contained; they are not afraid to use the word miracle; which of course it is!

The other side effects will keep mounting but remember this is only for the duration and knowing God is with me every step of the way through your calls, prayers, cards, encouraging words I know going forward is an easier road. I am in awe of how gracious God is to bless me through this experience.

And so we come to another day in the life; tomorrow is chemo and radiation, also blood work.  I may end up having more transfusions but that would be to help build up my system, not because I am still bleeding (which I believe is over, finally!)Remember I am still well below even the low end of the scale in the blood dept. and it feels good to have more in me, it will perk me up a bit more and stop my poor bones from being parched.

One more thing: after this is over there won't be any operation; Dr. B says the recurrence factor doesn't go down by doing a hysterectomy.  He says my system is already in need of TLC just from the radiation alone and to operate most likely would create new issues to deal with.  I'm ok with that, why fix what's not broken.  I'd be seriously risking ending up with a colostomy and/or bagging urine the rest of my life; right now even though those things were all squished (one still is) they work just fine thanks, so why traumatize this body any more and risk those things happening?

Now a word from Pooh: 

"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."