What I love about cancer...

My onc's office called today.  I had an MRI of my shoulder done after bone scan and x-rays.  She went through the litany of all that is wrong with my shoulder, including a long list of "-itis" afflictions, torn tendons and ligaments, and erosion of the something or other bone.  And then she said, "the good news is, there is no evidence of metastatic disease."

WooHoo!  The rest of the stuff didn't really matter.  She could have told me my arm was in danger of falling off, and I would've still been happy dancing. 

And that's what I love about cancer.  It makes anything else seem like good news!

Happily getting ready to add another specialist to the growing list. 

Love and hugs...

BEV

Love those itis afflictions, especially Arthur!

Great news, Bev!

Lori

When I looked at the topics this morning, I said to myself, Bev is in a really good mood today! Now I know why. Itis we can live with! Old Arthur is creeping into my hands especially in the morning. He's a member of the family so I have been expecting it. Happy vernal equinox to you, too. It is wonderful to sit on my patio and see green in all the trees now, but the birds have slowed way down. Where did they all go? I hope only to mating season, nesting? Looks like rain, I may take a cave day. Hugs MK

Hey Bevie...I am so glad that the MRI results were good !! That is the greatest news...Believe me I am happy dancing right along with you     .......

Who would have ever thought we would be so thrilled to have all those other ailments !!

Love and Hugs

Cathi

Hi, Kitty. Nice to see your posts! Knock on wood, I haven't had to deal with lymphedema. No, I have two tears in the rotator cuff. But that brings up a good question. I haven't seen the ortho yet (actually haven't even called him, with all the other stuff going on around here!), but...this is my "bad" side. If they have to do surgery to repair the tendons (and an OT friend who has been through this twice just smiles when I say I would rather try to "re-hab" it rather than do surgery), how concerned should I be about the lymphedema issue? Anyone had surgery on the "bad" side following node dissection???

Love and hugs...
BEV

Hello Bev.

I tore a tendon in my shoulder 7 years ago (the suprasinatous tendon) and decided against surgery.  The surgeon told me that the tear would gradually filll up with scar tissue and I would gradually get the strength and movement back in the shoulder which is exactly what happened. I had really more or less forgotten about it and before I had BC had the full use of my arm back.

In fact it's now on my 'bad' side where I had BC and the axillary node dissection - so I can't use that arm as much now anyway. 

I believe that tendon repair surgery is quite bad and involves keeping the limb strapped up and immobile for weeks on end.

Take care

Anthi