tests and scans

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• More on Mammograms and 40-something Women

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  The New York Times has a really excellent article on the whole mammogram debate. It goes into the whole "over-diagnosis" issue, which I find fascinating. Scary, but fascinating.  Because I still remember the scary early days when I was told I had DCIS, and no one could tell me whether or not it was harmful and ...
  5 days ago

• Gloomy Sunday

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  Ive been home from the hospital since Tuesday, but it doesnt seem like Ive done much during that time.  I spent a couple of days mostly in bed, and I really havent had much appetite, which is not good. Still havent unpacked my suitcase from my Omaha trip, and I have a stack of bills to pay and paperwork to sort ...
  1 week ago

• Home, Sweet Home

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  I am HOME, and I cant begin to tell you how great it is! I slept in my own bed last night, with the window open for some fresh air. I was starved for fresh, real air, with oxygen in it.  I made some phone calls yesterday to set up an appt. with my radiation oncologist, the doctor who has treated me three of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spring Me! ... Please?

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  I woke up this morning (Well, I was awakened,  a whole different animal...) at 5:30 a.m. for my blood draw, and I was just lying here in bed thinking that I was going to go home once Dr. Lee had checked me over and pronounced me good to go ... But there is one pesky unexplained problem: a pulse rate of 46 this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Typhoid Mary vs. Northwest Hospital

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  When Dr. Lee admitted me to the hospital, he put me in an isolation room. A day or so later, tests confirmed that I have C. diff., a nasty infection that is most often caught--and spread--in hospital settings.  When one of my doctors confirmed the diagnosis after a test of my stool, she asked me when I had most ...
  3 weeks ago

• Zap Me!

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  So, to recap: I have pneumonia and C. diff., and I was anemic until a blood transfusion last night.  But no blood clots in my lungs and no cancer cells in my cerebro-spinal fluid. Right now, despite the one new tumor in my skull, I feel like Ive dodged a bullet, yet again, because it could have been so much worse. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hospitalized: Some Answers

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  OK, this is day three, and the hospital is starting to get old.  However, the answers are coming in. And as I write this, two nurses are setting me up for my first-ever blood transfusion, and I just learned that my blood type is A-positive. (I should have known that, but Id forgotten.) So this is what I know so ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hospitalized! This Was a Surprise

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 131
  I got sick while I was in Omaha last week, and then a couple of other things went wrong after I got home, so when I went in to see Dr. Lee for my appt. yesterday, he listened to my whole list of woes and then said he wanted to put me in the hospital for some tests. Lots of tests.  Because I was feeling so crummy, ...
  3 weeks ago

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