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Sorry, yes I did mean Edward. That's what I get for replying before the caffeine caught up to my pain medication.
Not a problem; I do that kind of stuff constantly. I can't take any pain meds b/c I'm having my port removed tomorrow and had to lay off the blood thinners for seven days. I'm in pain but I'll live through it.
Not a problem; I do that kind of stuff constantly. I can't take any pain meds b/c I'm having my port removed tomorrow and had to lay off the blood thinners for seven days. I'm in pain but I'll live through it.
Congratulations early, that's a huge step having your port removed!
How'd the port removal go? My gf's oncologist said it's super easy and they'll just "pop it right out." Kind of a funny way of putting it. She's having it removed in less than 2 weeks.
On the bright side for you mvintar, the port removal shows your onc's confidence that you'll be healthy for a long long long time
How'd the port removal go? My gf's oncologist said it's super easy and they'll just "pop it right out." Kind of a funny way of putting it. She's having it removed in less than 2 weeks.
On the bright side for you mvintar, the port removal shows your onc's confidence that you'll be healthy for a long long long time
Unlike when they put it in, they didn't put me entirely to sleep; there was a blue cloth (paper?) over my face, but they gave me something so I didn't feel much of anything (pressure, is all). It's just about healed already. It was Propofol, that stuff Michael Jackson was abusing. I was always awake and was able to leave the hospital fairly soon after the removal.
Yeah, the surgeon's always said that I'm going to be okay. He even gets kind of PO'd when I mention metastasizing or recurrence. I think he takes it personally.
Doctors take that sort of thing personally. They dedicate their lives to healing people. Honestly, the fear of the cancer returning is just as real for the doctor as it is the patient. Follow up and keep following up, it is how mitigate the fear.
I have times too where I fret over cancer spreading. It fills me with fear...very upsetting to think of. Everyone seems to handle this differently. My mom, a breast cancer survivor, says she doesn't worry about it at all. There's no sense in it. But I have a friend who has had serious skin cancer and she frets over it all the time. Every headache is a brain tumor, every cough is a lung tumor. She hates that she worries about it so much. It's terrible.
Thank you! I just hope one never has to go back in, obviously. I'm certainly more comfortable knowing those little tings in my stomach are scar tissue. It was scaring me. Now on with life.
What SD4020 said about surgeons devoting their lives to saving people, and taking it personally if the patient doesn't believe they're well -- this struck me as useful, and I wasn't thinking of things from the surgeon's perspective. I guess so. I was totally focused on my own concerns and perceptions.
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