Reading the pathology report..........

    Friday 8/8, after the surgery the doctor said to call him the following Tuesday to get the results. Well you know me I have to read the results as soon as they show up on my records. I understood most of it especially when it says the organ (like bladder) and then says no malignancy. There were tons of things they checked like; bladder, diaphragm, biopsies etc. which the doctor told he was going to. They were listed in alphabetical order A-V, then they were labeled; negative for malignancy, no malignancy seen, lymph nodes negative for metastatic carcinoma, tissue without lymph nodes identified and then when I came to the letter "T" it read: metastatic poorly-differentiated serous carcinoma, omentum.....my heart sunk I knew they had found some more cancer. It was only Friday, I couldn't call for the final results until Tuesday - I called anyway, and the nurse said she didn't think they had gotten all the reports back, so still call on Tuesday. I had put a call into the Chemo doctor earlier for something else so I asked her about the pathology - she confirmed what I had read.... In our discussion she mentioned that because they found the cancer in still another organ system that it automatically moves it to stage 3 but an early stage 3. She said usually when most people find cancer its in stage 1 or 3. I was different that they had found it when it was stage 2. Usually people that have it in their omentum its covered with quite a bit of cancer, just not a small spot like mine. They couldn't even see it during surgery,; it wasn't until they sliced it in pathology that they found it. The nodule measured 1.5 x 1.0 x 1.0 cm/mm (they are the same) which in inches means; 0.59" x 0.39" x 0.39" quite small but still cancer. So it's about 1/2" x 1/3" x1/3" roughly.

                                                    

       Saturday 8/9, so many things going through my mind...I was sensitive about something this morning and Mark didn't realize it -then did, and felt bad...I think after that we both had a hard knock of reality and what the coming months ahead would be for us. Later I told Chris but told him I wasn't going to say anything until I had talked with the doctor on Tuesday. Kind of a melancholy day. Still hurting but I could finally turn on my side at night with minimal pain. I can bend a little further but if I'm up for to long then I begin to hurt, feel faint and have to go lay down for a bit. After a bit my energy is back and I can do more. It's just part of the recovery from surgery. I started to ooze/bleed from one of my incisions around my belly button. Just watching it for now. I don't want to get septic again, like in May!!!!

  Sunday 8/10, still oozing and bleeding a little through the gauze. Just going to watch it. Had a nice visit with my brother and his wife!

      Monday 8/11, called the doctor on the oozing it was normal - just watch for signs of infection. I also called the Orthopedic doctor on Austin's wrist because it was still bothering him. The PA looked at the xray and said it was broken but they couldn't work him in until next week to put a hard cast on. So he needs to treat it like a broken arm and wear the brace until then.
     The genetics counselor called and said with Fallopian tube cancer there is usually a genetic component...so they want to meet with me, take a history etc. I didn't think there was but I guess there is - more to follow on that. so I need to gather all the information on who has had cancer in my family, which really isn't very many but there are still some.