A few days out from chemo now.

This is what the port looks like. It's maybe a little bigger than a Rolo chocolate, and inserted under the skin. In my case (and possibly most cases), it's in the upper right chest, with a tube snaking into my central jugular vein. Local anesthesia, conscious sedation.


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Port placed. Took them a little longer than an hour; there was some difficulty wedging it into place. I'm already seeing some bruising underneath the bandages and tape, but that's expected after the amount of pressure exerted to get it there ( Read more... )

Leaving in about an hour to head to the hospital. Today is the day I get the port placed. From everything we've been told, it'll be inserted under the skin just on the right of my chest, a few inches above the breast ( Read more... )

Surgery follow-up is done. Doc says incisions and internal stuff all looks perfect. Discussed everything re: chemo, etc. today as well. This cancer (uterine/endometrial) is pretty uncommon, even rare, in women my age, much more common in women past menopause, typical age 62 or more. No hereditary factors for me. Tumor in the uterus was just over 8 ( Read more... )

Ready for tomorrow's follow-up appt ( Read more... )

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TGIF. Good effing gods, it's been a week ( Read more... )

We've been slowly binging Star Trek. We've actually been through TNG a couple times at least, recently finished DS9, and have made it into Season 2, I believe, of Voyager ( Read more... )

Tuesday afternoon I got a phone call with the pathology report for the endometrial biopsy. There is "evidence of some cancer." Also in some tissue from the cervix, but they are confident the origin is the uterine lining ( Read more... )

Home now. Sorry for the apparent vague-booking. It wasn't intended as such; I neither seek nor need attention. Being able to post it helps though, however minutely that is. The following has gone in various forms to a few people via text today ( Read more... )