I'm keeping this blog too!

So I decided to keep this blog in addition to my new blog so now I have two! The other blog is on a cancer blog site and I will keep it solely for updates on my cancer appointments and things related directed to cancer. This blog I will use as my rambling blog to update about other medical issues I'm facing. So yep.....2 blogs I'll have.

My new blog, check it out!

So I've had this blog for a while and have continously updated it as I venture through new phases but I have started a new blog elsewhere and will be moving my posting to there. I have found a new home at blogforacure, which is a great community of cancer fighters, survivors and supporters that offers alot of great information and support. If you want to continue to collow my blog you can do so at the following link. Thanks to everyone for your support.

http://taraf.blogforacure.com/weblog

The Rollar Coaster that is my life.

So I went to McMaster Friday having travelled on the Highway with a VERY full bladder to get there and be asked by the technician, "why do you have a full bladder?" Well let's see, "I'm here for an Ultrasound on my Ovaries to look for cysts" ya know the one my NeuroSurgeon ordered!? Well the technician consults the requisite and we verify all of the information to make sure it's mine and sure enough I'm not there for my ovaries but rather to have an ultrasound on my liver. *sighs* My liver? Yeah I know, I have no clue either, but the technician must have felt so bad for me that she actually did an ultrasound on my ovaries since she said with a full bladder they should be able to get a good picture of them and sure enough she did. She then let me pee, THANK GOD! Seriously what person in their right mind says, "fll your bladder and let's press on it!" seems kind of cruel doesn't it?! Anyways after I was able to pee she then did an ultrasound of my liver. So I had a COMPLETE abdominal ultrasound and will review those results on Feb 25 when I meet with the Drs again.

I recieved notification of my first Observation MRI which is April 11 at Juravinski. I had been going to Hamilton General Hospital for my MRI's but it appears they now have an MRI machine at the Cancer Center which is good because now it's "one stop shopping" for Cancer patients. lol that sounds horrible doesn't it? But I meet with my Oncologist on April 21 for the results of the MRI and to say I'm nervous is an understatement. I was talking to my Hubby about it and trying to pinpoint it but I think there is a part of me that is waiting for the hammer to fall, waiting for the Dr to say, "well we gave observation a try but now we need to do Chemo." I still have to remember one thing at the end of the day: I am a Cancer Patient, and those words are very hard to swallow. I was fortunate enough to have an AMAZING team of surgeons that operated on me and I have chosen as my Treatment, Observation but I could have instead have chosen Chemotherapy & Radiation as it was an option presented to me. Infact I was told that if at anytime I change my mind and wish to do Chemo & Radiation that I can do that as well, but unless it is absolutely necessary it isn't something I'm going to do.

Of course I try to remain as optomistic as possible and hope for the best, but this waiting is something that sucks big time! In fact the Neuro Oncologist I met with in December said that Observation is something alot of people can't do becaues emotionally and psychologically it messes with them and I get that. For the last 2 months I've been wanting my first MRI to come in hopes it would get here, the results would be good and than it would be over and I'd wait another 4 months, and now that it's in the near future I'm anxious about it. So please, keep the prayers and positive thoughts coming because I can definately use each and every one of them.

~Tara

Appointments.

So I meet with my Family Dr this friday morning and than I have an appointment at McMaster in the evening for an Ultrasound. This appointment is in regards to cysts on my ovaries that I've had for years but no one ever did anything about. So I go and get a Brain Tumor and for some reason the cysts on my ovaries come up in conversation with an RN because my Nuerosurgeon requested some tests to see if I have PCOS. Yes, it's all a weird weeved little web lol but I suppose once this is done and over with I will more than likely have had a physical from head to toe from the inside out! Or as my Aunt Lynn says, I'm gonna start glowing with all the MRI's I have had and will continue to lol