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badbaggirl

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Joined : Jul 2007

Posts : 275

Posted 7/6/2008 5:21 PM (GMT 0)

yeah, I was getting too thin, and had was pooping A LOT. Like I said I was 72 pounds when they stopped the chemo. I know what you mean by looking like a war victim. I hope your doctor is monitoring your weight! Some times they can give you 'time off' to get your weight back up.

They are pretty sure that they got all of my cancer with the surgery though. How 'bout you? I go in for a CT scan tomorrow so I will know more. No, my pick line didn't leak at all. It was just uncomfortable.

You must have a sense of humor about all of this or you could cry! Before my surgery (they removed my rectum too) my girlfriends wrote 'bottoms up!' and drew a martini glass on my butt with a sharpie for the surgeon to see

and my bag has her own trick or treat bag at Halloween! She's on Photobucket.

kitkath

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Joined : Jun 2008

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Posted 7/6/2008 5:31 PM (GMT 0)

I saw your Trick Or Treat Bag...that is so cool! Yes you definitely have to have a sense of humor with all this! My surgeon says he got all the cancer and that the reason he wants me to have the chemo is to make sure that it doesn't come back. Apparently it was a fairly big tumor and it had ulcerized....and it was in deep? That is what hetold me. so....he removed 3 lymph nodes which all tested NEGATIVE to cancer...so just the 8 treatments (4months worth) of chemo. Before all this I wore big thick pads, bought at Walmart, called ASSURANCE. I would spend $50.00 a month for the pads....and they didn't always work!(stopping the diarrhea) What do poor guys do?I guess there must be some sort of pad or something out there for poor guys. I don't know, but I think ostomies are the way to go if you have no control, like I did, over your bodily functions. At least now I do have some freedom, and I am not suffering from anxiety attacks about soiling myself out in public!:o) It is a beautiful day here, and i am going to get on some shorts and go outside and do some much needed pruning! BLESS YOU BadBagGirl!

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