Thanks to good friend, David Fletcher, I just received 158 pages that chronicle my life with cancer. Jill and I, after consulting with our medical oncologist, Dr. Andrew Pippas, have decided to make the long trek out to Houston, Tex. for a consultation with their genitourinary team. I hope to be able to meet with [...] [...]
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We just returned to the office after our scan follow up with Dr. Pippas. As soon as he walked in and gave us that look, I knew it was on. I have another “lesion” to deal with, this time on the left adrenal gland, near the site of my total left nephrectomy in June of [...] [...] We have our first appointment with a renal cell cancer specialist on December 30 at noon. Dr. Janice Dutcher is at Roosevelt Hospital on 10th Avenue in New York City. Here’s some info on her: http://www.docnet.org/physicians/phys_bios.aspx?phys_id=12541 I have known of her since my diagnosis, because of her incredible reputation among the couple of thousand kidney [...] [...] Yesterday morning, Jill and I decided we were on the road to nowhere. A call to Dr. Pippas and an explanation of the depth of my exhaustion and the severity of my pain sent us packing to the beautiful, newly-renovated and improved E.D. (Hint: does stand for emergency department) at The Medical Center. Although I’ve [...] [...] I wish you had been able to see what — hands down — the most painful moment I have experienced through all three of my bouts with renal cell carcinoma. I think this happened on Wednesday morning. My nurse, Kay Quattlebaum and Theresa, her hospital tech and Ellen Harden, a good friend of our family [...] [...] We leave tomorrow morning for a quick trip to Emory for a follow up on my radiosurgery with Dr. Liza Stapleford. I had an MRI without contrast media last week. Since Dr. Pippas ordered the MRI, he’ll have to give the OK for the radiology department at The Medical Center to release a disk containing [...] [...] I have reached out to my doctors for some guidance on how to deal with my severe claustrophobia while I’ll be hog-tied next week for the stereotactic radiosurgery. The consensus is that I should take 1 mg of Xanax 15 minutes before the treatment. I asked if I could hook up my cpap machine during [...] [...] Women supposedly speak about 20,000 words per day, a number that is exactly 13,000 more words than the average man speaks during that same day. That means around about 160,000 words are spoken in our office each day by the eight women who are here every day. Another 80,000 are spoken by four other women [...] [...] The pain in my back seems to be moving. It is not so much in my back at the place where Dr. Gorum’s incision gave him access to my spine, but in my upper left hip. The pain is sharp and it sizzles like a live wire. A nerve that is waking up after a [...] [...] |
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