27% -- 6/30//09

I'm recovering nicely from my recent surgery.  However, the final pathology report showed that I did indeed have some cancer of the endometrium which had microscopically invaded the cervix.  I guess I was one of the 27% percent who would develop cancer from the asplasia.  I was so sure I didn't have cancer and would never have it, that these last few days has been very surreal for me.  How could I be that wrong?  What else am I wrong about?

I'm scheduled to meet with a radiation oncologist on the 13th of July to get a recommendation on whether I'll need radiation or not.  I'll bet there is a PET scan or CAT scan in my future before she'll make a decision.

The surgeon said they think they got it all (don't they always think that?) but the cancer does not appear to have spread outside of the uterus.

This is starting to piss me off.

A Wedding and a Health Update - 6/16/09

Yesterday my son David married his fiance Jennifer.  They went to the court house and did the deed and then called to tell me.  We'll have a party to celebrate once I'm done recovering from my surgery.  I'm very happy for them and wish them a long and happy life together.   I guess I now have 3 more grandchildren from this union; Amber, Brittaney and Nicholas.

I had my surgery on Thursday the 11th and did quite well.  No problems.  I'm already driving again and really not having much discomfort at all.  Today is the last day for the antibiotics and I go back to see the surgeon on the 27th.   The initial pathology showed no cancer and I expect that further testing will have the same result.  I already feel tons better than I did before the operation.  I have more energy and enthusiasm for life.  I guess the problems I'd been having were really dragging me down more than I thought at the time.   The worst part of the whole experience was the bowel prep before hand (think colonoscopy prep).  Its too bad they couldn't have just done that too while I was in there.  That's still on my "to do" list for this year.

In the Medical Zone.....Again - 6/2/09

I made a decision a week or so ago to not delay having the surgery that was recommended for me.  I reached a point where I just felt like putting it off was taking up too much of my energy and holding me back.  Since I made the decision, things have moved quickly.  I met with the surgeon on Saturday and am scheduled for a hysterectomy on June 11th.  He will do the surgery laproscopically so the recovery time will be about 2 weeks as opposed to 2 months.   He told me that 27% of these conditions are cancerous or pre-cancerous.  I pointed out to him that that meant 73% were not.  He just smiled.  I'm fairly sure that its not.

Part of my rationale for putting things off until the Fall was that I spent five years with oconologists in the belly of the whale with Warren and did not want to go there again.  Life takes you where you're supposed to go I guess.  I expect to breeze through this and be back on my feet in record time.

I moved all my old Yahoo 360 blogs over to their new platform Yahoo Profile just to save them.  I'm not sure if I'll use that too.  I'm already on Facebook, Twitter and Multiply how much exposure do I really need?