Surgery Tomorrow

Prayers on the way for a successful surgery and a healing 2015.  One thing is walk, walk, and walk some more.  It might hurt but it's the best thing for you and will get your bowels working faster.  Take the pain medication as needed and don't let it get out of control because then it is harder to relieve your pain.  Better to take it before you need it than wait.  Please let us know how you are doing and glad that you are finally getting that surgery.

Kim

here's to an easy uneventful surgery, it's hard NOT to worry, I think we all do it before every surgery.  Try and get plenty of sleep though, and after your surgery, walk, walk, walk, walk as much as you can to heal faster, get the bowels moving and to gwt out of there, drink plenty of fluids as well.

I'm glad you are getting rid of the colon tumor, and then can concentrate on getting those liver tumors shrunk and out of there and then on the road to NED.

Will be thinking of you tomorrow with nothing but good thoughts that your surgery is quite uneventful!!!

Winter Marie

So glad to hear your surgery went well!! 

I would recommend the same, stay on top of the pain not behind it, walk as soon as advised and as often as you can.  One thing I always advise in hospital is keeping the door closed as often as possible to keep airborn germs down to a minimum and ask for hand sanitizer or wipes .. nurses and doctors see lots of patients and can be potential carriers .. and having a bug now would not be fun.  I tried to walk when and where there was little activity out in the halls for this reason as well.  I know this may sound over the top .. but it is the season ... and they are saying this flu is a rough one.  

Wishing you a wonderfully Happy New Year!! 

pilarica said:

Thank you al for the good

Thank you al for the good wishes, YES the surgery went well, they took the tumor out, it was bigger that they though, they were able to re-connect me!!!, so I don't have a bag...... now I am recovering, every day a little better.

 

Thanks again,

Pilar

So glad your surgery went well! Speedy recovery.

I am glad everything went well for you.

pilarica said:

Folow-up

Soooo the surgery went well, the big colon tumor is out ( she said it was the size of a grapefruit), the surgeon said that the margins came clean and that out of 19 lymph nodes only 1 tested positive. I saw my oncologist Friday and she was very happy, now she can focus on treating the liver mets. 

The plan is as follows:

6 weeks to recover from the surgery (my incision is BIG from my naval to the pelvis) she wants everything really healed. She also said that it is unusual for the primary tumor not to respond to chemo, I was on Folfox + Avastin for a year every other week and the Colon Tumor was resistant, but the liver improved substantially.

                                 March 2nd. MRI and then decide what type of treatment she is going to give to the liver mets ( I have several very small tumors in my liver, she said can't operate because there are too many and all over). The surgeon checked all my organs during the surgery and she said everything looked healthy, that the liver tumors were several but small and that there were big healthy areas in my liver.

Thanks for all the prayers, good vibes etc...... It really helps!!! 

Any advise on liver treatments????

Enjoy every day the best you can!!!!

Love

Pilar

That is good that your liver is healthy and no other organs are involved. There is the HAI pump which is primarlily done at memorial Sloan Kettering. I have not done it but there are a lot of folks who have had success and eventually liver resection. FOLFIRI chemo coctail usually does well with liver mets. There is also y90 radioembolization which I just recently had a great response from.