Saturday, February 23, 2013

From the way Dr. Richardo Gonzalez from the Moffitt Center in Tampa sounded Thursday evening I think he had just found out!  The pathology over there takes over a week to analyze.  After the first surgery huge surgery on the 5th they sent me home for a week to analyze the skin to see if there were clean margins, There were not.  Dr. Rick told me he would take 1/2 cm more all the way around before he attached the graph.  I know when I saw him on Wednesday the 20th to remove the bandages that he did not know the results yet.  However, the 2nd pathology report which took over a week was CLEAN.  Dr. Rick himself called me and he was so happy, as Jennifer, my daughter, said "He is never happy!"  And that is true, he has nightmares about AS, the removals and the failures, so I can understand him being guarded and not to give too much hope, but he was happy and that made me cry instantly and gratefully.  Thanks for your comments and prayers.  I found Dr. Medina at 1st Line Oncology.com for the radiation, it is not too far from my home.  Hopefully Dr. Rick will like him and work with him. I go for my appt to meet him on the 6th of March.  I go back to Dr. Patterson, the onc at Holy Cross on 3/5.  I have joined the AS group on Facebook.  What a wealth of information directly from others around the world who all cry out FUAS and pray for each other.  I am rare, but not alone. 
I am in pain but just the leg as it grows new skin.  Geesh.....I am still taking pain killers and I have a high tolerance.  Waking each morning with swollen eyes too. 
I am back at the club, working just a bit.  There are some great people at the bridge club, so loving and supportive, and not just my bridge club but bridge players that i know and have known are all praying.  Thanks!  you are doing a great job.
Chica Chia.  Now smile some more.

1 comment:

  1. Since you already have a heart and a brain, courage is it.

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