Biopsy Results = EXCELLENT NEWS!!
HW / SW / CW / GW 299 / 287 / 160 / 140 Feb '09 / Mar '09 / Dec '13 /Aug '10
Appendicitis/Bowel Obstruction Surgery 8/21/10
Beat Hodgkin's Lymphoma! 7/15/2011 - 1/26/2012
Ran Half-Marathon 10/14/2012
First Pregnancy, Due 8/12/14 I LOVE MY DS!!!
I just got back from Montana yesterday, and I got on OH this morning, and thought, "Oh - I haven't heard anything about her biopsy." I had very limited access to the internet while I was away and only was able to check OH once. I went back and back and back through posts and found this!
I'm so hopeful that you respond well to all treatments. What will they involve?
Big freakin' props to you for being on top of things and insisting upon the proper diagnostic studies!!!!!
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
I know that I will be getting ABVD chemotherapy. I'm looking into enrolling in a clinical trial where they use that (which is standard tx for my stage) along with a new class of drugs called monoclonal antibodies - it has an antigen that specifically, and only, targets cancer cells and masses. It can only adhere to cancer cells. Once it does that, it release it's poison directly and only into the cancer cell, thereby not exposing your healthy cells to poison. It was just approved for manufacturer for relapsed Hodgkin's with good results from those trials. I'm really hoping to get into it!
HW / SW / CW / GW 299 / 287 / 160 / 140 Feb '09 / Mar '09 / Dec '13 /Aug '10
Appendicitis/Bowel Obstruction Surgery 8/21/10
Beat Hodgkin's Lymphoma! 7/15/2011 - 1/26/2012
Ran Half-Marathon 10/14/2012
First Pregnancy, Due 8/12/14 I LOVE MY DS!!!
I told her of the DS - about the fully functioning stomach/ pylorus so no food/meds restrictions, 1.5 cups food/meal, stable weight since Aug ****il past April - lost some) 2010, the common channel, and that I had a comprehensive vitamin panel drawn June 2010 which showed my A & zinc were a little low, but otherwise all else was in the normal to high range.
I don't *think* that it should exclude me, but since I would be paying for my trip down there and it will certainly show up as a dark limb on my CT scan & it's in my medical records, I might as well tell her upfront if they're going to exclude me over it. WLSs are not on the exclusion list, but you never know.
HW / SW / CW / GW 299 / 287 / 160 / 140 Feb '09 / Mar '09 / Dec '13 /Aug '10
Appendicitis/Bowel Obstruction Surgery 8/21/10
Beat Hodgkin's Lymphoma! 7/15/2011 - 1/26/2012
Ran Half-Marathon 10/14/2012
First Pregnancy, Due 8/12/14 I LOVE MY DS!!!
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
HW / SW / CW / GW 299 / 287 / 160 / 140 Feb '09 / Mar '09 / Dec '13 /Aug '10
Appendicitis/Bowel Obstruction Surgery 8/21/10
Beat Hodgkin's Lymphoma! 7/15/2011 - 1/26/2012
Ran Half-Marathon 10/14/2012
First Pregnancy, Due 8/12/14 I LOVE MY DS!!!