When the surgeon discovered he couldn't remove my primary site carcinoid, my sister suggested to everyone that we name it. My nephew Kevin finally came up with the one and only name today. Trogdor, which is very fitting, being something a person wouldn't normally want in their body, but it remains the uninvited guest.
I got a call from several friends in Idaho today who reminded me that I hadn't updated the blog since 12/5/08. I sit here this evening attempting to do just that.
Earlier this week, Sunday, I took a shower. When I got out of the shower, I looked down at the rug and noticed a fluid leaking from my belly at the surgery site. "Oh... this is not good", I repeated several times, trying to figure out how I could put my shirt and sweats on while holding a towel to my belly. As soon as I accomplished this, I left the bathroom, to find my mom. "I'm leaking mom!" I thought I was going to bleed to death. I wasn't, but I thought I was. So I pulled up my shirt and took the towell away long enough for my mom to see this stuff squirting out two inches from my skin. So, we got out stuff together, and on the worst day of the year, we headed out to the local ER. Some of you may already know what this is, but I learned yet another piece of anatomy. Serous fluid builds up in the skin tissue following a surgery. This fluid is normally reabsorbed by the body, but I had earlier leaned against the sink kind of hard, causing a hole that this stuff began to leak out of.
By the time an NP saw me in the ER, I had soaked through three hand towels (folded) and the leak had stopped. She told me what this was and to keep it safe and clean. After 48 hours, it finally stopped for sure. I know that four of my nephews and at least two of my nieces would have said "Cool!" Youngsters are gross like that. :)
Right now, my stomach is so sore that I feel like I did 1000 crunches, only without doing the crunches. I think I was a little too active today. On December 26, I have an appointment with Dr. Patil, my primary oncologist. On January 2, I start my sandostatin shots, in the bum once a month. There are supposed to be no ill-effects from them. When I had my surgery, Dr. Wolf took two biopsies, one of the primary site and one of a spot on my liver. Both tested out to be carcinoid, which is good. That means, no chemo for sure.
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Yeh for no chemo! Take it easy and enjoy having grandma wait on you. I just got put on bedrest and get to go home from the hospital maybe today so if you're ever bored, I am just sitting around barking orders. Too bad we don' live in the same place, we could drive everyone crazy with all of our requests....could've been fun!
I have nothing to say about the name except I can't believe I didn't think of that.
I'm glad your fluid was normal stuff and that it stopped. No more doing dishes for you! Also, you got the effects of doing 1,000 crunches but didn't do them?! Jealous...
My word verification is plentela... sure you didn't want to name your carcinoid that??
Lena, when Mom comes she can bring Colleen's trolley bell that she has been using to call Mom, I'm sure it would work wonders for you! You'll be in our prayers, we'll just add you to the list right after Colleen. And when Kevin called to tell Colleen that trogdor was the only name I thought he was talking of the name for your baby and said, wait, it can't be that, it has more than 4 letters! I really confused Mom with that one.
All I can say is, I'm horribly disappointed you did not name it Jarko. Now, Mike thinks it's still a viable baby name. However, Trogdor is quite fitting.
Yea! For no chemo... wish we could come visit :(
BTW, what does Kevin win for having the winning name?
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