Jan 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Well… I heard from my doctor on Wednesday and I am headed to Stanford tomorrow. She’s calling it an exam under anesthesia. What on earth does that even mean? I’ll tell you what it means: SURGERY! There’s a home prep involved. 2 hour early arrival a weigh-in Attempted...
Dec 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Expectations. That’s what it boiled down to for me. It wasn’t what I expected. My doctor had set up a schedule of doing some type of follow-up every 3 months and this was the kick-off appointment. In my mind this was an easy, quick “scope thing” to...
Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Surgery was scheduled for 7:00 a.m., which doesn’t sound horrible until you factor in a 5:00 a.m. arrival time and a 90 minute commute. It was a night of no sleep and we were out the door by 3:30 — after I took a shower and applied mascara! I’m not sure why I...
Sep 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I originally wanted to name this post, “Ugh!” I met with my Stanford surgeon yesterday to go over the pathology report and my first reaction was… “Ugh!” There was cancer found in the tumor, which means I’ll be having a lot of follow-up appointments. Every 3 months I...
Sep 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
My doctor had ordered an ultrasound as the next test following the CT scan, to collect more information. In medical terms, it is a sigmoidoscopy, which is a fancy way of saying rectal ultrasound. Now you understand why I am choosing to simply say… ultrasound. This...
