Today’s Biopsy/Drainage
Posted by: johnnahood on: February 12, 2009
I’m home. I’m in a lot of pain which I wasn’t expecting since I had virtually no pain the first time. HOWEVER, while I didn’t talk to Dr. Allan, he did talk to mom and she is very relieved after what she said he said. She said the first thing he said was “It was all fluid”! Yay! Apparently they took the core needle biopsy still and sent it for analysis but after he got in there, he’s confident it is just seroma (sounds like sarcoma, but sermoa is a case where fluid builds up and the body can’t absorb it after surgery…rare for surgery patients (about 4% of all surgery cases) but fairly common for cancer surgery patients (about 10-15%)). They drained 360 ml/cc of blood stained fluid from my upper thigh and abdomen which wasn’t all of it (i.e. lower thigh and right above knee still has fluid there) and it’s already filling back up with fluid this afternoon, so it will be an ongoing issue, but not life threatening! We go back to see the doc on the 25th of February for the official biopsy results but again, he said he was confident that there was no sign of the cancer! YAY…anywho, I have to stay in bed and keep my leg elevated for the next 48 hours and then take it easy on my leg which means no more PT until this issue resolves which from my research on the internet could be anywhere from a couple of months to a couple of years! So annoying but again the lesser of two evils so yay! Just letting ya’ll know. I’ll post the official biopsy results after I see the doc on the 25th, but for now I’m signing off b/c the pain meds work to dull the pain but the pain is still there PLUS I’m loopy/drowzy from the meds so… Love and Peace out to all!
johnnahood
Kara
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