Cancer FREE 1 month anniversary

Hi Daisy,

I am sorry to hear that you have had such a scare. I was wondering had you been doing anything different before the pain started? I only ask because I was pretty much pain free, so much so that I had reduced my meds. I felt reasonably well, and went off for a check up at my doctors, my husband drove of course. By the afternoon I was in extreme pain and felt vey bloated and uncomfortable. It was pretty much like the symptoms I had experienced in the first week, I am now two weeks post op. Although the car journey had not been very long it was enough to increase the inflammation, the vibration was obviously too much.

How are you doing today, has there been any improvement?

Djinnie

Daisy lo said:

differences

Hi, no i really hadn't done anything different.  So far this week  I'm doing fine. I had many post op yesterday and my Dr said that for 1 year it's possible that I can keep getting high fevers like that because of many insiders all settling in the correct place. New scan in 3 months, hopefully everything will remain good. 

Sometimes recovery mirrors the severity of what you have gone through. We can't take this too lightly. Take all the time you need. But keep making progress. It will all be a memory in a few years. Now if you could help settle your innards into a "correct" place, where would you put them? Definitly not in your smile. don't change that. Don't wait until your next scan to tell us how you are.

Galrim said:

The only thing I can contribute with is...

...a bit in line with what your Dr told you. Post-op my surgent said, when I asked about the recovery phase in general, that sometimes they saw the body react in a manner of strange, even though ultimately harmless, ways to the surgery. Basically because having a large organ removed sometimes sparked a series of reactions, which all basically was a result of "confusion" over the missing organ. It could be both systemic and anatomic reactions and impossible to foresee.

/G

I've mentioned this several times. There is a life long "body memory" After a physical insult, the "afferent" nerves (those are the nerves which take sensory info from the body and send it to the spinal cord, which in turn send it to the brain) have significantly altered or absent  signals. The reflex's of the cord or brain send "efferent" messages back to the nerve distribution of origin. Lots can happen. Generally protective responses. Also remember that there is an area of the brain dedicated to constantly recieving information from specific sites. Interrupt that message and the brain goes, WHOA! something is NOT RIGHT. So it trys to stop potential further damage and shuts things down. 2 examples are the withdrawl response. Touch a hot stove and your hand pulls away much faster than you would have done voluntarily. The other is if you slammed a car door on your thumb. First there is withdrawl, second, you temporarily are unable to move it. It didn't get weak. It was neurologically inhibited. Ooops, my PT is showing.