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Subject: ANOTHER SETBACK


Author:
Stacy
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Date Posted: 04:10:46 06/14/06 Wed
 Bad chest pains woke me up Saturday morning. They continued to be there and got worse throughout the day. Everything I did made the pain worse. Nothing relieved it. Just taking five steps was painful. When I would bend over forward the pain got a lot worse and radiated up the left side of my next into my jaw and even two left molars.

Saturday evening was the Relay for Life where I was to be the motivational speaker and I did not want to miss that. Being bull-headed, I did not call the doctor. Plus I knew I had a CT scan Monday to check the progress of the chemo. I really enjoyed being the speaker and I am glad I went.

TRACEY AND ME (she asked me to be the speaker


ME CHECKING MY NOTES


GIVING MY SPEECH


ME AND MOM


When I woke up Sunday, I felt a little better so I went ahead and went shopping with my Mom and Aunt Nancy. As the day progressed the pain worsened. When we finally got home, my Mom vacuumed the living room and dining room then she was going to leave. I asked her to stay because the pain was bad enough at that point I wanted to call my doctor. Dr. Hahn was not on call but one of his associates was. She told me to go to the Emergency Room. It may have been my heart, a blood clot in my lungs, or maybe even the current blood clot in the Superior Vena Cava moving, or any of a number of other things. Therefore, I asked my Mom to take me so she did. Throughout the weekend, I had several tests. Lots of blood work, a chest x-ray, an EKG, and a CT scan with dye (even though I am allergic to the CT scan dye. They did a great job of pre-medicating me so I did not have any problems.

They put me on two different kinds of Morphine for pain. One I can take every three hours as needed and the other one is stronger and is slow-releasing. I am to take that every twelve hours whether I feel I need it or not.

I did not get hardly any rest while I was there because of pain plus there was an 80-something year old woman down the hall that would scream all night long and part of the day. She has dementia but was there for an infection. She about drove me and everyone else nuts.

The blood-work came back showing no signs of heart attack enzymes but I am anemic from the chemo. The x-ray did not show any fractures and the EKG came back normal.

My doctor, Dr. Hahn, came to see me twice and released me at noon today. Mom and I ran around to different places to get my prescriptions filled. One place was Good Samaritan. We found out my pharmacy only has one of the Morphines. Knowing I had been getting the other one while I was admitted I went back to get it refilled. I stopped in to see Jeanette, my chemo nurse. Dr. Hahn saw me there and asked me to come into his office.

Dr. Hahn needed to tell me that the CT scan came back with bad news. The good news was that the pain had nothing to do with my heart. My heart is fine. However, the cancer is all growing again and the doctor thinks it is the cancer growing causing the pain. I will be changing chemo drugs again. He wants to see me on June 22nd for a follow-up and to set up scheduling of the new drugs. Again it’s two drugs but this time I will go three times a week then go back every 21 days to start the regiment again. I will have better details after I see him on the 22nd.

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[> Subject: Cheering for YOU


Author:
Donna
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Date Posted: 08:58:06 06/14/06 Wed
Keeping you in my prayers Stacy -
just jump up and smack it again :)

(BTW...I know it's been a few weeks, but wanted to tell you that I'm so glad you stopped at Moms - was great to see and talk with you)

Take care
[> [> Subject: HI DONNA


Author:
Stacy
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Date Posted: 09:40:02 06/14/06 Wed
Hey Donna, it was great to see you again also. We'll all have to get together again for dinner sometime soon. Tell Slim hello for me.

Thank you for the prayers. I'm really in need of them these days.
[> Subject: Hang in there


Author:
Connie
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Date Posted: 12:41:43 06/17/06 Sat
Oh my, you have had some more trying times. It sure did sound like you were having heart problems when I was reading through your message. In the first paragraph I said to myself, "She is having a heart attack!" Then continued to read that you were able to go to the relay. I sure looks like you moved people. Can see Tracy upset. I wish I could 'hear' your story instead of having to read about it. You have given me hope. I did say "oh @##$%." when i read on about your CT results. Its like, haven't you been through enough.
One the new routine of chemo, will you have to stay at the hospital for the three days?
I keep thinking I will be like you in a few years because of my similarity to you. However----- You would have to put me on morphine to even think about speaking in front of peope. Oh my gosh. haaaa haaaa haaaa How can you do it???? But It sure did look like you made in impact.
You will have to let us know more about what type of chemo, how long it takes for the procedure, etc. when you find out.
I'm trying to send you little angels to help you along.

On another note, I am still working 8-1 everyday as an office assistant] But this week, I learned how to put on a control module, fuel pump, and fuel filter on my husband's pickup. I watched how he got them off, and then I proceeded to put new ones back on. I may be getting older, but I am still learning. So who said, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. haaa haaa

I will still be thinking of you.
Connie
[> [> Subject: STILL HANGIN'


Author:
cautious2day
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Date Posted: 09:27:55 06/21/06 Wed
The ONLY reason that I didn't call the doctor sooner is because of the American Cancer Society's Relay for life. I was asked by someone very special to me (Tracey) to speak. I couldn't say no or change my special plans by going to a hospital for myself. I figured I could go that night if I had to. I know, I know, I heard it a hundred times that I should have gone sooner. Why bother when they can't get your treatment right, they can't decide which tests to run and worst of the ER doctor was reading someone else's bloodwork thinking it's yours to my face. It's a good thing I ALWAYS ask for my blood work. When I started reading the results I started noticing incorrect information. Like they had me down for reason for visit as "asthma" nothing about chest pain. Then my social security number and phone number were wrong. Fortunately I got my nurse that I've had before in chemo. He's a rotating nurse that goes where he's needed. When I was in triage I specifcally requested Martin if he was there. Thank God he was. I showed him the the blood work. Guess we'll have to start over with you., he said.

Yes, sometimes I definitely feel like I've been through enough. It's just making me stronger, right. I miss going to the doctors office and hearing ONLY good news. I'm glad to hear good news even if I have to bad news along with it. But I'd really like to hear good news.

Tracey and numerous others told me I brought tears to their eyes. I was proud of that. I wasn't expecting the feedback that I got especially since I didn't remember to say one of the most important things on the list. The speaking part was the easiest part for me. I had to host a lot of training sessions, meetings, refresher training when I worked. I used to be scared to death. As long as I know the subject matter, I'm okay with it.

Yes, sometimes I definitely feel like I've been through enough. It's just making me stronger, right. I miss going to the doctors office and hearing ONLY good news. I'm glad to hear good news even if I have to bad news along with it. But I'd really like to hear good news. I see Dr. Hahn this Thursday, June 22nd to see what's going on with the new masses in my brain. I guess I'll find out if he wants to send me to go talk to a guy at John's Hopkins Hospital to talk about the Gamma Knife procecure. I'm sure we will also discuss the process for the next two drugs I'll on.

Sorry for writing a book here. But I haven't talked to you for a while and wanted to catch up.

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[> Subject: Hi Stacy


Author:
Cliff
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Date Posted: 23:06:30 06/19/06 Mon
Geez, I hate hearing lesss-than-good news from you. It reminds me of a guy out in the ocean, fishing for marlin. He hooks one, and fights it, and almost has it to the boat when it makes another run. So he has to fight it back to the boat again. But if he has good equipment, and he doesn't give up, he'll eventually win the fight.

So are you getting your wagon out very often?
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