let the chemo begin

maglets
maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
so yesterday I started my prep for the colonoscopy with the phospha soda. Took a big whack of gravol and drank it down.....it stayed down. Five hours later it was time for the second bottle and it too went down but didn't stay....oh lordie does that stuff make you hurl.

so then it's 10 at night and I'm wondering should I start over but I felt so sick I thought I'd just bring it up so I went to bed. Went off for the procedure today sure that they would say I wasn't cleaned out enough but they did it and the scan was normal.

I want to thank everybody who thought it would be unusual for the cancer to return to the bowel after two bouts of mets to the liver. Don't know when I will hear from my oncologist but she was the one who insisted on the scan. she is recommending oxalyplatin and xeloda so I hope to get started soon.

Best wishes to all
Mags

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  • msccolon
    msccolon Member Posts: 1,917 Member
    #2
    glad your scan was clear!
    Sorry the prep went so bad. Yes, the crap just keeps coming (literally!). Will wait to hear when you start chemo!
    mary
  • dixchi
    dixchi Member Posts: 431
    #3
    msccolon said:

    glad your scan was clear!
    Sorry the prep went so bad. Yes, the crap just keeps coming (literally!). Will wait to hear when you start chemo!
    mary

    Scan
    So glad to hear that your colonoscopy turned out well. I have not had any
    upset stomach with the prep but wow! does it ever mess up my elctrolytes and
    give me that "deer in the headlights" feeling of wooziness and weakness.
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #4
    I'm sending up TWICE prayers...
    Once for good results, and twice for weathering the chemo well!

    Hugs, Kathi
  • pamness
    pamness Member Posts: 524 Member
    #5
    Glad to hear the results were good
    Sorry the prep caused such problems. I use the 1/2 go litely - and haven't had much trouble. But then I did the full go litely and it was OK. Most importantly your results were good.

    Pam
  • MoonDragon
    MoonDragon Member Posts: 183
    #6
    I'm really happy to hear
    I'm really happy to hear that your scan was clear!! I'm sorry the prep was so nasty! I hurl that stuff too. I turned Osmoprep and won't look back!

    I was on Xeloda and Oxi too. Let us know how you do.
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #7
    MoonDragon said:

    I'm really happy to hear
    I'm really happy to hear that your scan was clear!! I'm sorry the prep was so nasty! I hurl that stuff too. I turned Osmoprep and won't look back!

    I was on Xeloda and Oxi too. Let us know how you do.

    funny things
    thanks for all your well wishes

    last night i celebrated with a nice glass of white wine and I was thinking

    how many groups of people spend more time in the can than we do???? sometimes lying on that old bathroom floor?

    also when I woke up in the recovery room yesterday the first words the nurse said.....were...yeeeeh you can start chemo....now that's something to celebrate! Our new reality.

    Moondragon I asked the surgeon for any alternative but the phospho was the ONLY choice...funny other people use different things

    best Saturday morning wishes to all
    maggie
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #8
    maglets said:

    funny things
    thanks for all your well wishes

    last night i celebrated with a nice glass of white wine and I was thinking

    how many groups of people spend more time in the can than we do???? sometimes lying on that old bathroom floor?

    also when I woke up in the recovery room yesterday the first words the nurse said.....were...yeeeeh you can start chemo....now that's something to celebrate! Our new reality.

    Moondragon I asked the surgeon for any alternative but the phospho was the ONLY choice...funny other people use different things

    best Saturday morning wishes to all
    maggie

    Maybe college kids on weekends?
    ROFL!

    As a child, my sister dubbed me the 'head inspector'. On a trip, I was always looking for a bathroom....shades of things to come, I guess....lol!

    Hugs, Kathi
  • kimby
    kimby Member Posts: 797
    #9
    Ok...
    Congratulations on chemo? Yeah, new normal can really suck. I am about to start chemo again,too and am also grateful for the opportunity. So many emotions that we roller coaster through on this weird and incredible journey. I celebrated my 45th birthday yesterday and it was miraculous....as though the Lord was telling me that I deserved a really special day. Now, CT scan tuesday and treatment plan meeting on Thursday. And, so we begin...again and again. sigh. We'll do it together so it isn't so isolating.

    Kimby
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #10
    kimby said:

    Ok...
    Congratulations on chemo? Yeah, new normal can really suck. I am about to start chemo again,too and am also grateful for the opportunity. So many emotions that we roller coaster through on this weird and incredible journey. I celebrated my 45th birthday yesterday and it was miraculous....as though the Lord was telling me that I deserved a really special day. Now, CT scan tuesday and treatment plan meeting on Thursday. And, so we begin...again and again. sigh. We'll do it together so it isn't so isolating.

    Kimby

    birthday
    ahhhhy Happy happy birthday there kiddo....I am gad you had a good day. it's reallynice to have a little celebration once in a while in this mess, isn't it? You know when I first started looking at this forum I didn't know what to expect but now it's the first thing I do in the morning and the last at night. I live in quite a small place and there is no cancer group, really no place to share. The othere day I met some friends at the drug store and they had been crosscountry skiing.....they said ...oh are you going away this winter....and I said oh no I have do some Chemo....the look on their faces was amazing....they sortof turned and rushed off as if cancer was catching. So you know what KIMBI...we will do this together and we won't be so isolated.

    \Hugs
    Maggie
  • msccolon
    msccolon Member Posts: 1,917 Member
    #11
    maglets said:

    birthday
    ahhhhy Happy happy birthday there kiddo....I am gad you had a good day. it's reallynice to have a little celebration once in a while in this mess, isn't it? You know when I first started looking at this forum I didn't know what to expect but now it's the first thing I do in the morning and the last at night. I live in quite a small place and there is no cancer group, really no place to share. The othere day I met some friends at the drug store and they had been crosscountry skiing.....they said ...oh are you going away this winter....and I said oh no I have do some Chemo....the look on their faces was amazing....they sortof turned and rushed off as if cancer was catching. So you know what KIMBI...we will do this together and we won't be so isolated.

    \Hugs
    Maggie

    cancer catching
    Next time you run into those "friends" step extra close to them and do some coughing!
    mary
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #12
    msccolon said:

    cancer catching
    Next time you run into those "friends" step extra close to them and do some coughing!
    mary

    spelling
    ha ha you
    are right mary....I should not have said friends....should have said aquaintances but wasn't sure how to spell it:):):)
    mags
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #13
    kimby said:

    Ok...
    Congratulations on chemo? Yeah, new normal can really suck. I am about to start chemo again,too and am also grateful for the opportunity. So many emotions that we roller coaster through on this weird and incredible journey. I celebrated my 45th birthday yesterday and it was miraculous....as though the Lord was telling me that I deserved a really special day. Now, CT scan tuesday and treatment plan meeting on Thursday. And, so we begin...again and again. sigh. We'll do it together so it isn't so isolating.

    Kimby

    Happy Birthday!!! And you WILL have many more!!!!!!
    I'm counting on it!!!

    Hugs, Kathi
  • kmygil
    kmygil Member Posts: 876 Member
    #14
    So happy
    I'm so happy your scan was clear!!! God is good!

    Hugs,
    Kirsten

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