Hypochondria + Free Canadian Healthcare = ???

wholfmeister

What a royal runaround!

Don't you just want to bash some heads??

But we can't...we won't...we are refined ladies.

Just breathe.  Get some nice low numbers for the CA125.  Would control top pantyhose help the bulge appearance?  Yes, it still needs fixed, but I'm just trying to help you look beautiful in the meantime.  We can live with a bulge, but we NEED to have low CA125.

Speaking of bulges...I have had a soft bulge every since surgery.  I mean every since, like the day of, surgery.  Mine is to the right of the incision, just below the belly button. (I still have a belly button.)  It is soft and unchanging, non-tender.  Maybe I should be asking more questions.

Hang in there, friend.

Glad to be done

wholfmeister said:

What a royal runaround!

Don't you just want to bash some heads??

But we can't...we won't...we are refined ladies.

Just breathe.  Get some nice low numbers for the CA125.  Would control top pantyhose help the bulge appearance?  Yes, it still needs fixed, but I'm just trying to help you look beautiful in the meantime.  We can live with a bulge, but we NEED to have low CA125.

Speaking of bulges...I have had a soft bulge every since surgery.  I mean every since, like the day of, surgery.  Mine is to the right of the incision, just below the belly button. (I still have a belly button.)  It is soft and unchanging, non-tender.  Maybe I should be asking more questions.

Hang in there, friend.

So.....  What were your

So.....  What were your results??

 

lovesanimals

Glad to be done said:

So.....  What were your

So.....  What were your results??

 

Hi Alexandra

Keep us posted on the hernia adventure and hoping you'll get good news about your CA 125!

Kelly

Alexandra

Alexandra said:

My "hernia adventure" continues

I went back to the plastic surgeon who did my "tummy tuck" 3 months ago to see if he can repair hernia. Brought CD with the CT scan with me.

As we are both watching my intestines on the CD protrude outside of the muscle...

DR: "You do not have hernia".

Me: "And why do you think so doctor?

DR: "Even if I was drunk when I operated on you, I would have noticed a 5 cm hernia and I did not"

Me: "No comment...Then what is it if not a hernia"

DR: "It's a bulge, there is a big difference"

Me: "Oh, well, I am so sorry to have bothered you"

Today I went to Shouldice Hospital in Toronto that does nothing but repair hernias. A center of excellence. Since 1965. A hernia conveyer belt.

Spent 4 hours listening to somber music, completing an enormous questionnaire and waiting in line only to be told that they will not accept me as a patient unless I loose 70 lbs. I almost choked the life out of some 18-year-old clinic administrator who explained to me with the look of utmost importance why it is not healthy to be overweight. Total hysterectomy was safe to perform but for the hernia repair I have to look like a lingerie model. Grrr!

Back to the family doctor - to get a referral to the general surgeon  - 2-3 weeks to get an appointment with him - 5-6 months to schedule surgery.

To be continued...

I am sitting at the Oncologist's waiting for my CA125 results to come in. Keeping my fingers crossed.

still NED

CA125 came back at 4. Thank you very much Merrily, Eileen and Kelly for your support.

I was in a bad mood yesterday, mostly because of the news about a classmate who passed away from colon cancer 2 days ago at the age of 47.

He was diagnosed less than 2 years ago with stage 4 and was quickly going downhill. Till the last moment he believed that he was going to get better. They live in Italy and doctors there are not obligated to tell the patient his real status unless he asks. He never asked. They told his wife. In a way it's easier to be a patient than a caregiver. I feel so bad for her and their 2 children.