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Great to hear the positive updates Aplman and upwards on onwards from here.
Prayers and strength sent for continued progress. Hang in there APLMAN
This is one jackwagon who is happy to hear she's doing OK. Best wishes for a more durable repair this time!
Best of luck to you both-she must be a tough lady!
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Very good news. With any luck, your wife will be one of the patients who puts a smile on the faces of the doctors and nurses.
Hey APL, I was just thinking about this. Did she end up being released on schedule; back home and recovering by now, I hope?
We’re still in the hospital, hoping for discharge today or tomorrow. This is day 9.
The surgery itself was very successful, she’s up and around and feels much better than she expected to 4 or 5 days ago, but they are having a hard time getting her level of blood thinner up to the proper level. I’m not sure what the units of measurement are, but the ideal target is 2.0 and this morning she was at a 1.6. If she gets up to 1.8, they feel like it’s safe to go home with monitoring every 48 hours for a couple of weeks.
She’s definitely ready to get home!
Great news.
Happy to hear the positive news.
Are they using the coumadin or the lovenox? The coumadin takes a while to see results while the lovenox is more instantaneous.
Lovenox is injections trice daily. They don't do that long term though.
And yes 2 is a good #. There's also a newer product that I'm not familiar with, where you don't have to worry about what you eat.
I'm sure you've been educated on all this stuff before though.
Discharged earlier today, daily blood tests to monitor the Coumadin for the first couple weeks it sounds like. The head pharmacist at the hospital is a high school friend who gave us a decent initial rundown on the Coumadin but said that everyone metabolizes it differently so to call him 24/7 if we had questions and couldn’t get hold of the anti coagulation folks.
Good Morning Mr. Aplman99, just a quick note to wish you both all the best, and wondering how things are progressing.
Thanks OSF, healing is going well and she is feeling much better. Still trying to dial in blood thinner levels, but that will always be an ongoing process.
That’s great news.
Well, the wife fully recovered from her stroke, her open heart surgery to replace her previous replacement heart valve was very successful, and a couple weeks ago they finally got around to looking at some swollen lymph nodes that they had found when she had her stroke.
Turns out, both nodes that they biopsied were cancerous. I was actually still in Texas when she got the test results, but was able to fly up to Washington the next day and have been here for a little over a week. First meeting with the oncologist tomorrow but we are going to have her moved down to Texas a little earlier than we originally planned so she can do her treatment down there.
One lucky thing is that where she will be working is right across the street from the Baylor University Cancer Center, and we’re told that it’s one of the best in the country. Hopefully that’s true, and this is just another hurdle to get past for her.
She’s infinitely stronger than I am, for sure.
So sorry to hear that Mr. Apple,
That's so fucked up! I hate hearing when people are DXed with this terrible disease. I would encourage you to get an opinion at MD Anderson since you're in TX. One of the top 3 in the country for cancer centers. I don't know how many people that could have had different outcomes with a top tier doctor.
TM
Damn man. One thing after another. Sounds like she's got some skilled docs and that is so important. My wife had cancer 10 years ago, she is cancer free today.
Prayers for your wife to have continued skilled medical treatment and successful outcomes (and strength, peace for you in being by her side).
Praying for you man. Sorry y’all are having to go through all that.
Pit Row
I’m praying for you as well.
Sending you the most positive vibes.
Mine has been clear for just over a year. She had a follow up oncology appt last week.
It’s a stressful time.
Hoping ALPMAN has all the support he and his wife needs.
Some solid results out there with antivirals worth looking into. I have a few friends that had great outcomes with the treatment.
What kind of cancer do they treat with antivirals? Is it just an additive to the regiment or does the antiviral actually attack/prevent growth/cause the cancer to die(create an apoptosis effect).
It’s a pretty heated debate on this treatment right now from the traditionalists. It can be used both ways. I know people that supplemented with radiation and or chemo and others that centered treatment around the antiviral. I believe in most cases mainstream, people are using a combo of conventional and antiviral. Quite a few different cancers are being treated this way including lung cancer, blood cancers, breast and others.
I've heard of in conjunction with however not to affect the cancer but to help the body because your immunity is shit. Do you have any sites that might explain that?
Thanks
Just found one
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33200371/
Well, her first oncology appointment today wasn’t super encouraging. Stage IV mullerian, but the CT scan didn’t reveal the source tumor so there’s at least some chance that it is very small and it may respond to treatment. They are testing the biopsies to find some genetic information to help decide on the treatment plan, and the local oncologist has already spoken to a Baylor oncologist so the medical handoff should be pretty seamless.
I have to head back down to Dallas tonight but unfortunately she won’t be able to fly down until next Tuesday. It’s going to be a long week, for sure……
I've never even heard of that. That's a relatively new thing they do now (genetic testing). It used to be there was a standard treatment and everyone got the same thing. Now they dna test and adjust/change the treatment. A good friend of mine had pancreatic cancer stage 4, and it turned out that the doc wanted a breast cancer treatment and it worked the best they had ever seen. He will probably get published. Off to the PET machine to see if they can find the tumor that way? Did the doc discuss what type of treatments are available? Or is that dependent on where the tumor is?
I'm sorry to hear that Apl.
Baylor is a good place.
From my experience, MD Anderson gave us a few more years with my Paw.
I pray for great outcomes for your wife.
Jimmy
I'd like to add one thing for now. This beginning of a long difficult journey. Having been on both sides of the fence. On your side you'll be worried and want to do as much as possible. Don't ask her if you can do something for her or if there's anything you can get/do what ever. When you want to do something. Be specific. Honey, can I get you XYZ? She has a lot on her mind and thinking of what she wants is just clutter. On her side of the fence, she'll not want to be a burden and will not give you an answer to an open question. A yes/no answer is much easier. I know this sounds petty but it's real.
Prayers for you brother! I always plagiarize Pastor Mark in times like this, condensed version,
Whether it be through your intervention or the treatments and technology you allowed us to develop...
They did a genetic test on my squamous cell cancer that my insurance initially didn’t want to pay for before I started immunotherapy. Lucky for me they picked up the tab and so far (knock wood) it’s working.
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