Soo, on August 23, I went to UPMC. I must say the the experience wasn't overly all that impressive. We valet parked our car, only to find out when we picked it up it was 5 bucks. Then why did they need us to validate it...stupid! (WVU cancer center is free valet, yo!) We checked in with the volunteer and she took us up to our floor and said the next step. That was nice. All of the checkin process was good and quick. We were taken to our room where we sat for way over an hour. No one else came to check in with us. Then finally the resident came in to take my history (did they not get that in the huge packet of info my nure sent up?.) He left and said Dr T would be in shortly. A "short" twenty" minutes later in came back in with the resident. Dr T. seemed kinda pompous and wanting to take over my case, which didn't really impress me. The only other thing he mentioned was explained by Dr Mo later. That was that IF the fluid in my lung was cancerous, they would remove it(the fluid) and replace it with antibiotic.
So, mainly my parents and i left major unimpressed. Later we had heard other stories of issues with UPMC. So, i must say WVU cancer center is definitely my cancer"home." I feel like they generally care and are very positive.
So, onto Thursday...Chemo day. I went in for blood work at 7:30 AM, Ugh. They had issues drawing blood from my port, big boo. So, after trying multiple positions, the put in some TPA in my port to help break down the possible clot that lurks inside. I decided to let them multi task and we put in an IV to do the blood draw and to use for the Chemo. I'm a trooper like that. Unfortunately, it took the third vein before they sucesslully got the blood drawn. The appointment with Dr Mo went well. Linda, the nurse, came into say hi, since Joan was on vaca. Dr Mo went over our next plan of attack.
Sept. 6- I wil get some of the fluid from my lung removed to see whether it's cancerous. If it is not, they will plan to remove my lung.
Along with Chemo 5 I will have another PET scan.
After all of that since my cancer isn't in fact curable, I will have a maintainance chemo drug for probably the rest of my exitance. Which brings me to another reason i love Dr Mo. He never uses words like "terminal" or deadly".
So, here I am in in you arms, Lord. Trusting you whole heartedly. Please help turn my mind off at night as it seems to like to race at night for some reason. I love you, Jesus!
That's where it's at. Lung removal scary, but not so much when in the arms of Jesus.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!! I'll probably be resting, as I usually do the weekend the weekend after Chemo. I firmly believe it helps this body heal.
Much love and thankfulness to you all!
K*
