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  • Shutterbug73
    Shutterbug73 Member Posts: 791
    edited February 2016

    Good luck Diana. Hoping you get great results.

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  • Hummingbird4
    Hummingbird4 Member Posts: 331
    edited February 2016

    Diana, sending positive thoughts and best wishes. I hope to hear that you get good results this afternoon. You are an inspiration to me, as I also have belly mets and your posts have helped me so much to stay confident! Good Luck

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  • steelrose
    steelrose Member Posts: 3,798
    edited February 2016

    Thinking of you, Becs!

    Wonderful news, Shutterbug!

    And Diana, wishing you good news. "Not today, cancer, NOPE!

    Love to all waiting for scans and scan results...

    Rose.

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  • scrunchthecat
    scrunchthecat Member Posts: 269
    edited February 2016

    Glad to hear it, Shutterbug!

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  • singlemom1
    singlemom1 Member Posts: 434
    edited February 2016

    Great news shutterbug!! Hoping for great results Diana!

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  • Aoibheann
    Aoibheann Member Posts: 555
    edited February 2016

    Just popping in to say hello. Delighted to hear your good news Shutterbug, keeping my ingers crossed for everyone waiting for results Hugs x

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  • diana50
    diana50 Member Posts: 2,134
    edited February 2016

    hi people.

    Results of scans

    1. Brain MRI. No change; continues to look like B 9 mennigoma. 👍

    2. Chest. Clear except progression to vertebrae, rib, iliac . Small lesions.

    3. Abdomen. 50% improvement. No new lesions. Large 4.9 cm X 4.0 cm decreased to 2.8 cm X 2.3cm. Good news in liver. 👍 Kidneys/ureters look bad on scan (severe hydronephisis HOWEvEr my creatinine/bun in normal. No stents yet. 💃💃💃.

    Will continue 2-3 cycles of gemzar. Consult with radiation oncologist re: bone. TM stable at 680.

    Not today cancer. Nope. 😘👍😎. Doing well. Never give up.

    Hugs to all only good news on these pesky scans.

    Diana.


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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited February 2016

    diana50,

    I love your tag line. All in all, not bad! Rest well tonight.

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  • Hummingbird4
    Hummingbird4 Member Posts: 331
    edited February 2016

    Diana, glad to hear your mostly great news!

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  • ShetlandPony
    ShetlandPony Member Posts: 4,924
    edited February 2016

    Shutterbug! Normal brain MRI! Very glad.

    Diana, good, that sounds like good news overall. Especially brain MRI. Not today cancer.

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  • oriole
    oriole Member Posts: 72
    edited February 2016

    Diana, I am glad that you received positive results. You are truly an inspiration! Enjoy the beautiful weather tomorrow...I will go outside and wish on a star tonight for all of us!...Not today cancer. Nope!

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  • RonnieKay
    RonnieKay Member Posts: 2,067
    edited February 2016

    Well...I cried for you, Shutterbug!  Your nurse must've been walking on air all day, getting to give you such wonderful news!  So very happy! And I feel like coming clean about my "real" name...only because we rhyme...Donda & Rhonda...how awesome is that!!!  My Caribbean SIL gave me my nickname...cause he said Rhonda is too hard to remember!   

    Diana...it IS a good report!!  Shrinking liver mets is awesome & I know the bones will get their eviction soon!  Go Gemzar go!!! Not today cancer...nope!  

    Becs...Thinking of you & hoping for good news!!!

    Thinking of All...always!!!


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  • Almosthere
    Almosthere Member Posts: 197
    edited February 2016

    Shutterbug what a relief!

    Diane, things are going in the right direction! Gemzar melt away those bone mets too!!

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  • artistatheart
    artistatheart Member Posts: 2,176
    edited February 2016

    I used to have a great friend named Donda here in California who eventually married and moved away!Anyway, thinking good thoughts for Monday Shutterbug! I like your screen name because I am a shutterbug!

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  • Shutterbug73
    Shutterbug73 Member Posts: 791
    edited February 2016

    Thanks everyone! I'm so relieved about the MRI that I'm hardly even worried about the CT and Bone scan I had yesterday. I think my brain can only take so much worrying!

    Ronnie - I would never have guessed! I have a good friend here at work named Ronda (but if you put an "h" in her name she will never let you forget it. She jokingly spelled my name Dhonda for a year after I screwed that up once!).

    Artist - Wow! You knew another Donda? That's amazing! Until the internet came along, I thought I was the only one :) And then of course Kanye West's mother passed away and everyone and their uncle was calling me to tell me her name was Donda.

    My heart is full of love for you ladies. <3

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  • RonnieKay
    RonnieKay Member Posts: 2,067
    edited February 2016

    Omg, Shutter...that's so funny!!!  I was a new high school secretary & sometimes got 2 teachers-Phillip & Philip...messed up. The single L always came unglued if I gave him 2.  I finally told him if he didn't chill out I'd knock the other L out of him. We became good friends after that!   I totally get letting the air out after a clean brain scan. Sometimes you just start planning how to proceed with whatever news is delivered & sometimes, you just want to say...nope...don't wanna hear it!  Hoping we can celebrate ct & bone scans reports!

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  • steelrose
    steelrose Member Posts: 3,798
    edited February 2016

    Love your news and your attitude, Diana. Keep on keeping on!

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  • artistatheart
    artistatheart Member Posts: 2,176
    edited February 2016

    Yes, that sounds like pretty good news to me too Diana! Reducing those liver mets is fantastic! That makes my day......I was so focused on your name Donda I forgot to say Hip Hip Hooray to you as well! Great news too! Be well all!

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  • Smellimd82
    Smellimd82 Member Posts: 18
    edited February 2016

    donda that is amazeballs news! I love how nurses will sometimes share results all clinical. I try to judge the response that's coming by their lead in and I'm always wrong. May you continue with stable scans. This is one time when normal is ok by me😘

    Kelli

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  • Shutterbug73
    Shutterbug73 Member Posts: 791
    edited February 2016

    A belated congrats to Diana on the good scans. Hopefully the bone Mets will get on board soon, but it sounds pretty good overall!

    Got my CT and Bone Scan results via the patient portal yesterday, and there is no significant change. Three cheers for stable! Had another abdominal ultrasound today, but the CT didn't mention anynoticeable change in the cyst, so I'm hoping it has stayed stable too. Next stop: oophrectomy!

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  • diana50
    diana50 Member Posts: 2,134
    edited February 2016

    thanks people. Interesting how much better I feel with reduced cancer burden in the liver.

    Shuttlerbug. Stable and no change is good. 💃💃💃

    😎😎

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  • EstelaLorca
    EstelaLorca Member Posts: 98
    edited March 2016

    Hello everyone,

    I just received my CT scan requisition for next week. I knew it was coming but I wasn't expecting that she'd be looking at my abdomen, and pelvis too.

    A little background: I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, went into remission for 6 years. The cancer came back in November, mets to lungs. My body was scanned and everything came back clean. My oncologist has me on 6 rounds of Taxotere. She is optimistic and has told me that I'm responding to treatment. I guess she sees that in my blood work.

    I've had 3 rounds so far so I'm guessing she wants a mid treatment scan? Which I was pleased about because I'd like to know really if my body is responding but now with the additional body parts on the requisition I find myself anxious and my mind is now the opposite of calm.

    I keep trying to tell myself that my MO is being thorough and our last appointment was positive. So, I guess I just needed to join the waiting room to find some solace and comradeship.


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  • Bosco2602
    Bosco2602 Member Posts: 39
    edited March 2016

    I have my first ct scan tomorrow since being diagnosed in November 2015. I have kept myself pretty busy all week so I wouldn't dwell on it.. But the anxiety and lack of sleep ( my 1 yr was up all night) has caught up to me today and I'm freaking out. I have my appointment with my dr Friday to get the results. I feel like I should expect the worst and hope for the best?!?

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  • EstelaLorca
    EstelaLorca Member Posts: 98
    edited March 2016

    Hi Bosco2602,

    Is this the end of treatment scan? I took a Lorazapam last night, and I just made an appointment for acupuncture today too, never done it before.

    Good luck on your exam tomorrow, wishing you great results!

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  • Bosco2602
    Bosco2602 Member Posts: 39
    edited March 2016

    Hi Estelalorca,

    I start cycle #6 of 8 Friday so not done yet.

    I do Accupuncture once a week and love it, I hope you find it relaxing and helpful for any of your SE.

    I hope the next week goes bye with out too much stress and anxiety!

    Healthy stable scans for all!

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  • artistatheart
    artistatheart Member Posts: 2,176
    edited March 2016

    Donda, Another Happy Dance! Stable is beautiful.....

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited March 2016

    Don't stress over the pelvic and abdomen CT scan - I've been having them for 8 years and they've all been just fine - it's standard operating procedure both here in Ontario and in South Carolina where I used to live - I always take Lorazepam the few days before the scans and then when I have the onc appointment. I only take half a pill though I am very drug sensitive.

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  • ShetlandPony
    ShetlandPony Member Posts: 4,924
    edited March 2016

    Yes, that is a standard scan. My paperwork calls it"Eyes to thighs." Doc just checks the box, And scanning after three cycles is pretty standard, too.

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  • Shutterbug73
    Shutterbug73 Member Posts: 791
    edited March 2016

    Keeping my fingers crossed for you Shetland Pony and Estela.

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  • EstelaLorca
    EstelaLorca Member Posts: 98
    edited March 2016

    Thanks ladies, I'm relieved to hear that it's standard. Fingers crossed!

    Had my first acupuncture session today too, that was interesting.


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