Doctor Visit

I just got back from my regular oncologist appointment. My tumor markers continue to rise and he was pretty concerned about it. He actually cried and was procrastinating coming in my room to tell me. I love my Dr so much, he is in this with me. We are going to start a shot that blocks estrogen and he ordered new tests, a chest x-ray and a PET scan. I am happy with the plan and am not as surprised as he seemed to be that my tumor markers are still going up. All of this blood work was from before I had my ovaries out. The blood they took today will be more accurate, in my none medically educated opinion, in showing what effect removing the ovaries had.  I think he was so upset because the trend is no longer arguable or a fluke.  To me, this isn't anything new or different from what I thought was going to happen. I will feel better about having a new PET scan and the shots aren't anything either way for me.

What's Happenin' Hot Stuff?

:) I love that Movie!
Well, not much. I feel like I always say that and yet, I am always so busy and my days go by so fast! Wedding stuff is going really well. I get something done everyday and am still having a really good time! I have two doctor appointments next week. One with my lung doctor, it is getting harder to breathe again and I hope they can drain some fluid soon. I get out of breath so easily, just drinking water or walking up and down the hall a few times can leave me gasping for air. The other appointment is my regular 6 week check up with my oncologist. They will take some blood to run my tumor markers and flush out my port. I don't expect anything new from that one. I might need to adjust my pain meds, the does doesn't seem to do as much as it used to but I'm not sure if I am willing to go up or switch to anything stronger right now. I might wait until after my fluid drain to decide that too, I remember last time that the pain decreased once I had recovered anyway- the first three days were more painful! Ugh I am not looking forward to that but hopefully I will be more relaxed this time. That's all for now, I will write next week to update everyone on my doctor appointments.

A break in health stuff.... can only mean one thing!

It's time to talk about weddings! Technically commitment ceremonies! Right after I healed from surgery we jumped right into planning! I am so excited and am having so much fun! So far we have gotten a lot accomplished but it still feels like nothing is done! How does that happen?!?! I found a wonderful place, we have our top three caterers in mind, the invitations are designed and a quality check has been printed, my dress is in my closest (as previously blogged), so is my veil!, the cake has been tasted and decided on, and a few other things have been done too, but we still haven't booked a venue so nothing can really be finalized. It's really fun though and I can not wait! We are so excited to share this day with our family!

Follow up from Surgery

I had my follow up appointment from surgery and it went very well. My dr was even able to tell me why I felt so terrible after surgery. He said it happens very rarely. Basically if you have the surgery when your hormones are at their peak, removing the ovaries basically causes a hormone crash. Your body has about 24 hours worth of hormones so the first day I felt fine, the second day I had crashed. He said the pathology report was clear, so there was no cancer in the ovaries, we didn't expect any but they check everything. So I am released from that doctor. There is nothing else planned at this point. They are watching my tumor markers and watching for new symptoms.