Hi Jeanne
You have a good memory.......better then you think!
It was actually two years ago that I visited the forum.
At that time I was experiencing a fluid problem that
invaded my pleura-lung cavity.
After a thorosentesis, it was determined that the
extracted fluid was cancer bearing.
I did a chemotherapy session and relaxed for five
months.
The formal diagnosis was Adenocarcinoma with no
known primary.
After going through a remission stage of sorts,in Jan
of 99 a malignant tumor was taken off my chest. Shortly
following that sucessful operation the fluid returned to the
lung cavity.
After a series of what seemed to be endless thorosentesis,
someone suggested a pleurodesis.
That was performed in May of 99.
After a two month recovery period my wife and I felt a vacation
was in order.
No sooner had we got to our destination, we ended up in the
local hospitals emergency ward.
I was now retaining the fluid in my abdoman.To top this off,
they found a blood clot in the lung.
This automatically made me a candidate for a stay in their ICU.
After a week of Cumadin balancing, we returned home.
My oncologist now started tapping my stomach to get the fluid off.
I went through a chemo session,Sept-Oct 99.
Everything was fine, up until the last three weeks....the fluid returned.
The point that I'm trying to make is, I feel things could always be worse
than they are.I feel a person should never take on the " why me attitude"
To me,facing a health situation with negativity, just puts up another
obstacle that has to be unnecessarily dealt with.
Nice talking with you
Bob Gelo
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