The picture below is of my buddy Nate and I at Rock fest when he was given VIP passes. Needless to say Styx, Reo Speedwagon, and John Fogerty were awesome.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Surgery today
So today I had my surgical biopsy. They were not able to stitch up the first area where I had a biopsy because it did get a little infected. No biggie I just have to treat it myself. They also put a port in my upper chest area on my right side. A port is used to easily access blood for testing, administer some drugs, and whatever else they would need to do. The port is placed just under the skin in the upper chest area. I line is run from the port straight into a main vein in the neck. Having the port will drastically reduce the number of needles I will have to see in my arm. If any of you out there know me you know that nurses and doctors have a huge problem finding veins to use so this will help a ton. The next thing I had done was the important thing. The doctor removed part of tumor for testing. They hacked out a part of it and it was quite noticable. The lump that I had that was bulging out is not there anymore. I don't want people to jump for joy that they removed the tumor because they didn't they only removed part of it. I should have the results of the tests on it by Thursday. So good thoughts and hopes people. Next week is when I would probably be starting my chemo treatments. Tomorrow I am also buying my case of Mangosteen juice and giving my body what is hopefully the needed additional treatment that it needs. So right now I am still in a lot of pain from the surgery and it is to be expected. My neck is killing me so I just keep putting ice packs on it to numb it up. The cuts are gonna hurt for a while and I'll just continue to take my pain medication. At the moment I still have a killer head ache that has been messing with me all day long. No matter what I take it just won't go away. Other than that I feel bad that my dad spent all day in the waiting room today. I mean it was his freaking birthday. That would have sucked, but he is a trooper. Until tomorrow my faithful followers.
The picture below is of my buddy Nate and I at Rock fest when he was given VIP passes. Needless to say Styx, Reo Speedwagon, and John Fogerty were awesome.
The picture below is of my buddy Nate and I at Rock fest when he was given VIP passes. Needless to say Styx, Reo Speedwagon, and John Fogerty were awesome.
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3 comments:
Goooo Justin!! You're such an emotionally strong and kick ass person. I hope you never lose that fire within. Glad you are handling things so well. Keep on staying positive... You're in my thoughts and prayers :)
For the headache... try a cold compress around your eyes. It lessens the inflamation of the blood vessels. The ideal is one of those silly looking girl-eye puffiness packs you can put in the fridge. They look sort of like a very effeminant super hero mask. You can get them at Target in the beauty cosmetics section. If you don't want to do that, though, just a cold wash cloth will help. Also, as you know, a lot of fluids. I can only imagine how stressed out your body is right now, you're probably constantly on the verge of dehydration.
Still praying, darling. Constantly.
I am glad that your surgery went well. I hope that you are resting up and getting well. There are a lot of fun times ahead with friends!
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