Happy New Year!
I hope I am better at keeping up with my blog than I was last year. Life just gets busy as I am sure you know. We all have busy schedules and life to live. So I am going to start off with reporting my news on my last doctors appointment at M.D. Anderson in Houston, TX.
My appointments started November 8th, first of all I had my blood work CA-125, then a mammogram, then a bone density tests, and finally the doctor exam. All my tests turned out good. My CA-125 was 11.1 and anything under 35 is good. Then on Tuesday, November 9th we both went to our primary physician to have blood work for our prescriptions.
In August we were at a meeting in Burlington, Iowa and we had gone out to eat on Saturday, with the pastor and his family. During the night I woke up throwing up, so we thought I had food poisoning. I continued to throw up so we stayed in Burlington a few more days and even went to the emergency room where they treated me for food poisoning. On Wednesday we decided to travel home to Bourbonnais, IL. I just couldn't hold any food down so by Friday night we back in the ER. We were informed I was a sick lady and that they were going to admit me. They tried first to see if I would be able to stop throwing up but I continued. So they decided I would need surgery. On August 24, 2021 I had major surgery for a double hernia and bowel obstruction. It was awful and it took me quite some time to recover. Because we live in our 5th wheel full time I had to go to my sisters to recoup, while Scott continue on going to meetings. It was a long journey because I was so weak before the surgery, it took longer to heal.
In October I started loosing my hair. Everyone kept saying it was from the anesthesia. I guess I never realiz3ed it with my cancer surgeries because I was taking chemo treatments. My hair just continued to fall out. I mentioned it at both my doctor appointments, my primary doctor suggested I go to a dermatologist. So Wednesday before Christmas I saw the dermatologist and she said it was stress and a major surgery. It could take 6 months to a year for it took grow back. She told to get on some vitamins and gave me some topical solution to put on. It seems it is not coming out as much as when it started.
So as of May 2021 I have been cancer free for 11 years. Praise the Lord! God has been so good to me.
