Offline for a couple of days
The rescheduled lung ablation (RFA) procedure is scheduled for 10 am. The interventional radiologist is going to try and go in and ablate two different tumours. Depending on whether they can do it with conscious sedation or whether they are going to have to put me under a local anesthetic remains to be seen. If I get the conscious sedation, then I will probably be discharged from the hospital tomorrow evening. If I have the general anesthetic, then I'll have to stay overnight. Either way, I won't be coming home until at least Wed afternoon.
Sooooo, I shall talk at you all later!! Do keep me in your positive thoughts!!
Hugggggs,
Cheryl
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Sending Prayers!
Good Luck Cheryl! I will keep you in my positive thoughts and prayers.
Faith0 -
all best wishesCanadaSue said:Over the mountains
Cheryl,
Prayers,hugs, and the most positive thoughts are coming your way from over the mountains. Can't wait for you to let us know they got it all!
((((Hugs)))),
Sue
Cheryl....sending you all the very best wishes and prayers. Your thoughtful and intelligent posts are such a brilliant addition to this forum.
super Hugs
Mag0 -
CherylBuzzard said:God Bless
Waiting for good news....
With all this positive energy, I know you'll do great!!
You're in my thoughts and prayers,
Hollyberry0 -
Best wishesldot123 said:ldot from the tdot
Hey Cheryl,
Best of luck to you. Like all, I am sending out positive vibes to you.
Lance
Good luck - Lots of positive thoughts and prayers for ya girl!0 -
I'm baaaaack!
Hi everyone! I'm home!! Thank you for the wonderful messages and all those great thoughts! What a lovely welcoming to come home too!
Well, it's a "good news" "so-so news" situation. The good news... although I was put under a general anesthesia and had to have one of those breathing tubes inserted (thank goodness they did that once I was under the anesthesia), I came through with flying colours. To the point every nurse/tech/doctor that talked to me had to keep re-checking to see if, in fact, I did have a GA. No one was suppose to be that wide awake, chipper and normal colouring after a GA. Dr. Halkier, the radiologist, blasted the one tumour (19mm, or approx. .73 inch). He did not take the second spot (7mm or approx. .21 inch), which disappointed me.
He explained before I was put out that he thought it would be too risky to go for both of them since one was on one lung and the other was the other lung. One of the risks of this procedure is that by putting a needle into the lung, one could end up with a partially collapsed or total collapsed lung. So to do both lungs and possibly have both lungs collapse... it just wasn't worth the risk. Now, I can certainly understand that, but wonder why he didn't come to that conclusion at the consultation appt??
My friend, Nancie, who was with me at the consultation appt. did tell me last night that he had said at the appt. that it WOULD be risky but that he would TRY to do both spots. Funny... my memory is he said he WOULD do the two spots. All the more reason to always have someone with you at the appts. where a plan is being discussed.
He feels that my best treatment that I should go on now is more chemo. Of course, this is not his decision to make and I will be meeting with my Onc on Monday to see what our plan is going to be. I'm a little confused at the moment so there's no point me trying to second-guess what I may have misunderstood or thought was going to happen. If he had taken out the 2 tumours (19mm and 7mm), that would still have left me with 5 spots. Now 2 of those, my onc and the lung surgeon thought they might be scar tissue, so they may not count... which would have left me with 3 spots. Now I have 4 spots, so does this warrant chemo at this point? Or should we be waiting to see if more show up? This will be something my onc and I will go over on Monday and I don't think the radiologist was in his jurisdiction to suggest anything other than whether he could or couldn't do the RFA.
Before I say anything, I want to confirm with my onc what her understanding was... and was it met. I'll be the first to say this wouldn't be the first time I didn't hear something the way it was explained to me, hence have been very surprised to think that someone changed a plan in the middle. So, I'm not going to jump on poor Dr. Halkier yet.
Meanwhile... hahaha... my gymnastic skills are not up to par!! I'm not sure what position they had me in on the narrow CAT scan table but today, I'm feeling a bit like what a pretzel with arthritis would feel like
My throat is a little sore, but that would be from the breathing tube, not the actual procedure. My back feels fine and that's where the needle went in.
Anywho... I have a lot of email to catch up on, and then I want to come back and catch up on what you all have been up to... and I better put an update on my blog
Talk to you all soon!!
Huggggggs,
Cheryl0 -
Welcome back!CherylHutch said:I'm baaaaack!
Hi everyone! I'm home!! Thank you for the wonderful messages and all those great thoughts! What a lovely welcoming to come home too!
Well, it's a "good news" "so-so news" situation. The good news... although I was put under a general anesthesia and had to have one of those breathing tubes inserted (thank goodness they did that once I was under the anesthesia), I came through with flying colours. To the point every nurse/tech/doctor that talked to me had to keep re-checking to see if, in fact, I did have a GA. No one was suppose to be that wide awake, chipper and normal colouring after a GA. Dr. Halkier, the radiologist, blasted the one tumour (19mm, or approx. .73 inch). He did not take the second spot (7mm or approx. .21 inch), which disappointed me.
He explained before I was put out that he thought it would be too risky to go for both of them since one was on one lung and the other was the other lung. One of the risks of this procedure is that by putting a needle into the lung, one could end up with a partially collapsed or total collapsed lung. So to do both lungs and possibly have both lungs collapse... it just wasn't worth the risk. Now, I can certainly understand that, but wonder why he didn't come to that conclusion at the consultation appt??
My friend, Nancie, who was with me at the consultation appt. did tell me last night that he had said at the appt. that it WOULD be risky but that he would TRY to do both spots. Funny... my memory is he said he WOULD do the two spots. All the more reason to always have someone with you at the appts. where a plan is being discussed.
He feels that my best treatment that I should go on now is more chemo. Of course, this is not his decision to make and I will be meeting with my Onc on Monday to see what our plan is going to be. I'm a little confused at the moment so there's no point me trying to second-guess what I may have misunderstood or thought was going to happen. If he had taken out the 2 tumours (19mm and 7mm), that would still have left me with 5 spots. Now 2 of those, my onc and the lung surgeon thought they might be scar tissue, so they may not count... which would have left me with 3 spots. Now I have 4 spots, so does this warrant chemo at this point? Or should we be waiting to see if more show up? This will be something my onc and I will go over on Monday and I don't think the radiologist was in his jurisdiction to suggest anything other than whether he could or couldn't do the RFA.
Before I say anything, I want to confirm with my onc what her understanding was... and was it met. I'll be the first to say this wouldn't be the first time I didn't hear something the way it was explained to me, hence have been very surprised to think that someone changed a plan in the middle. So, I'm not going to jump on poor Dr. Halkier yet.
Meanwhile... hahaha... my gymnastic skills are not up to par!! I'm not sure what position they had me in on the narrow CAT scan table but today, I'm feeling a bit like what a pretzel with arthritis would feel like My throat is a little sore, but that would be from the breathing tube, not the actual procedure. My back feels fine and that's where the needle went in.
Anywho... I have a lot of email to catch up on, and then I want to come back and catch up on what you all have been up to... and I better put an update on my blog
Talk to you all soon!!
Huggggggs,
Cheryl
Glad to hear everything went well, will be waiting to hear more once you see your onc.
mary0
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