Dear Jean,
In my humble opinion, that is the message of a winner and determined
survivor, one who take charge, one who is knowledgable, one who wishes
to be educated, and one who continues to ask the right questions. Good
for Annie. I am certain, she as well, has benefited greatly from your
wisdom and caregiving and sounds like to me that the two of you make a
great tag team.
God Bless
your friend
marty
Jean Johnson wrote:
>
> Annie writes:
> "I had a call from Dr. Garza today. I thought everything was set for my
> medical records to be sent to O.S.U., but it turns out that I have to go
> into the office to sign the release. So nothing has been sent to O.S.U.
> as yet. Also, I had to call the doctor's office down there to get an
> appointment. The doctor I'll be seeing there is Dr. Jeffrey Fowler.
> (Jean's note: Anyone know anything about him? I sent Annie his bio
> from the AMA page.) My appt. w/Dr. Fowler is on Tuesday, April 7, at
> 11:00 a.m.
>
> I was able to get some clarification on some things from Dr. Garza. My
> cervix and vagina were also cancer free. Cancer was in the channel from
> the uterus to the cervix, which we knew after the D&C. However, the
> cancer in the channel (or is it canal?) was superficial - it hadn't
> attached to the tissue. The nodule that was cancerous was not attached
> to anything. It was just "floating" (my description) outside the
> uterus. Because of the nodule, it puts me in Stage 3, Endometrial
> Cancer, although Dr. Garza seemed to want to wait for the opinion of Dr.
> Fowler before commiting to a particular stage. From everything that
> I've read, I fit into Stage 2, except for the darn nodule. My first
> post-op appt. w/Dr. Garza is on Tuesday, March 31, at 10:15 a.m.
>
> Tomorrow will be my first real outing since the surgery. After I go to
> the clinic to sign the release for my records, we're going to go to
> Perkins for lunch. What a wild time I'll have!
>
> Today I removed the steri-strips from my incision. It seems wierd not
> to have a bandage or anything on it anymore. But it looks pretty good.
> I'm healing well. I think drinking a gallon of water a day is helping
> there, too.
>
> My friend Linda stopped by for a few minutes today and brought tulips
> with her. I received some flowers from the Customer Contact Center at
> work today, too. The arrangement is very beautiful. The General Sales
> Manager's secretary, who is a very nice person, sent the flowers.
>
> I'm still getting afternoon headaches. I took my blood pressure today
> and it was high. Maybe that's my problem. I'm going to watch that
> closer going forward. Also, late this afternoon my blood sugar fell to
> 65. That, too, could have caused the headaches. Today's headache was a
> little worse than my other ones.
>
> Linda & Jim (Jean's note: our pharmacist family members): I've decided
> to lower some of my blood sugar medication & wonder if you think this
> will be okay: I currently take two 10 mg. tablets of Glucotrol XL. I'm
> going to cut it to just one 10 mg. tablet to see if it keeps me from
> going so low. I take Rezulin (400 mg.) also, but I don't think I cna
> cut that in half. I guess I'll make an appt. w/Dr. Comianos to see
> about getting some of the meds changed. But until then, I'm just going
> to cut down the one Glucotrol tablet. I've been taking my blood sugar
> quite a lot, so if it starts going back up I'll go back to taking the
> two tablets. Maybe I'll just have to take the Resulin in the future and
> be able to dump the Glucotrol.
>
> I've lost two more pounds this week. -Love, Annie
> ------
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