surgery Q & A

>>>>>>How does surgery go?

they remove lots of stuff. I hope they remove everything, and taht they'res not stuff they can't (its worrying more if they cant)

>>>>>> You do the surgery and then they give you chemo as well right?

3 more rounds of chemo they say, post operation, but that's very distant now.

>>>>>> And then hopefully its gone and you never have to deal with it again (ok so that is a big hopefully).

doctor said it's the only possible way . apparently the chemo has slowed it down and shrunk it to some degree, but the chemo is very strong and toxic so they can only do say 9 in your entire lifetime.

>>>>>> Do they literally take everything out?

yes.

>>>>>>Can they replace all of it?

i don't know what they put in its place, well, an artificial diaphragm, the rest is whatever their science says to do.

>>>>>> Does that mean the Chemo hasn't been successful?

I have never sat down with a doctor for a 'chemo overview' session. After the 2nd chemo he was very pleased because it was working (chemo works on only 20% of patients with sarcoma), but i learn that it's spread to heart, lymph, diaphargm. I don't know when it spread and exactly how many tumors I have or any of that information.

>>>>>>Are you happy about this? I know it must be frightening, but it also is more hopeful that anything you have been doing before.

this doctor never gave me a prognosis, because when I transferred in, we both knew KonKuk had told me 6 months to a year, incurable, no possibility of surgery because of location. And, now, finally, a prognosis comes out, that this surgery will create a small possibility of a cure. Now, it's scary because in honesty it's just creating a probability of curing, and there are so many variables which the surgeons will see when they open me up there's no guarantee they can even give me just this possibility.

>>>>>>When will they do the surgery?

early november pre-qualificatory testing
late november do the surgery

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