Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Hello everyone!

I have a few updates, I've been very busy. I've been dealing with Zoe's newly-diagnosed migraines, Zachary got the flu, I missed an appointment, another was cancelled and my husband has issues with his Cpap machine. Things never seem to slow down. I guess I'm getting used to my port but I still dislike it. It's still tender.I've had 2 needles in it so far and DAMN did they hurt. I would have been happier sticking with the IVs but the nurses were really struggling with finding my veins. Each month after my pamidronate, I have to go to CanCare for them to remove the IV from my port. I have to laugh, they dress up head to toe in gown, hat, gloves, booties and one of those masks with a plastic shield in case something spurts toward their face. I guess whatever is going into my body is pretty toxic. Funny, they don't dress like that at the chemo room at KGH. I had my monthly pamidronate infusion for April and my routine Dr appointment. My best friend Denise came with me. Today I went for a bone scan. My osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis along with my degenerating discs and tumors on my spine, need to be monitored closely. Again won't know results until next appointment. I asked the tech for a printout of one of the scans. He directed me to medical records. I just wanted random photos/x-rays/scans/MRIs etc and they gave me a disc with 1000s of images and it's ONLY from 2011!!!! lol. It's very cool, it comes with a special built in viewer and with each click I can go through slices of my brain. There are other images of all my organs, body parts, fat!!! ewwwww, glad I've lost so much weight. I tell you, If you don't think you're overweight, get a full body x-ray, it will show you your bones and then all the chub around it YUCK! It truly shocked me. Glad I don't look like that now. Oh and since I reported I was under 200lbs, I'm now 193!!! I still want to lose more tho. Here are a few chosen images I'd like to share. I am not a medical technician/doctor so I can't answer many questions about them, but I thought they were cool.

I've been told many times I have no brain!

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PHEW!!! There it is :)

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Air-Supply ♪♫♪♫


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Just Breathe...


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This is an ultrasound of some part of me. I thought it was cool that I consist of fire and water *giggle*


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Thank you for all the continuing love, support and prayers.



6 comments:

  1. Hi Velda, Thanks for sharing the pictures..I think the Head Shot with your eyeballs and top of your nose is really cool..Science is SOOO AMAZING..stay postive and stay strong..hope to see more favourable updates soon..Love Annette

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  2. It's interesting to me that they dressed into that garb. What did they dress you in? I'm glad they gave you all the pictures, you can see what they're looking at even without much understanding, it's a reasurance I'm sure... to some extent.. Thanks for sharing, always thinking about you. Kathy Evans

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  3. Thanks for sharing. That really is cool!

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  4. You are an amazing lady! a true inspiration to all cancer sufferers out there. AnnUK

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  5. Hi Velda, I was so worried because there hadn't been an update on your old blog for a year. I didn't know you had a new blog! I'm so happy to see you're alive and kicking.

    I was diagnosed last week with uterine leimyosarcoma. An extremely rare and aggressive cancer. 50% survival rate. Of course I'd get the weird one. If anyone had asked I'd preferred to have had the regular uterine cancer with 90% survival rate. Oh well. No one asked me. :)

    Anyway, no chemo or radiation since it doesn't usually work on this cancer and I'm in stage 1B. Which is good since stage 2 is 0-20% survival rate to 5 years.

    So glad you're doing well and you are indeed an inspiration to me.

    Hang in there Velda. Been thinking about you a lot lately.
    Diana

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  6. those outfits would probably make me giggle too ;). Hope everything has settled down now with the kids & stuff ((hugs)) and much <3

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