Treatment plan, operation notes, & home progress.
23 January 2019Heading to Waikato hospital for CT scan this Friday for my chest & abdomen. Next week chemotherapy starts. Three different chemicals plus two anti-nausea meds. I get a box plugged in to my picc line for half a day at Waikato hospital & then I do the next four days at home. Our local hospital will unplug me & then it is rinse & repeat every two weeks for 12 treatments.
Our home has had all carpet, which was full of black mould, removed along with lino & underlay & has been sprayed to remove spores. The lounge is going to be my new bedroom. A 5.2 m2 skip bin was taken away yesterday.
Gaining weight well. As of this morning my scales said 53 kgs, I will beat my target of 55kgs before chemo starts. Operation notes were mindblowing. My surgeons cut so much cancer & dead tissue out. They saved my small intestine by teasing it away from the diseased flesh.
Four large cancers were removed, a 230 x 45mm mass, an 80 x 65 x 15mm mass which included my last ovary, a 65 x 45mm one & a 70mm length of diseased fat plus dead tissue & fluids. Feeling very amazed to be alive.
Thanks for following my journey. Will put photos up once the laptop is found in the chaos so you can see how progress has been made by us.💖