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05-23-2018, 04:56 PM
#221
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 26,171
So glad Ibex is back in!
Terri, that's great news that something can be done to remove/reverse the lapband. I remember when that surgery was all the rage. Hope all goes well so you can get it done and recover.
TG, what a fun pinwheel quilt! I love how the blocks are all linked together. It goes to show how pretty an all-solids quilt can be.
Terri, that's great news that something can be done to remove/reverse the lapband. I remember when that surgery was all the rage. Hope all goes well so you can get it done and recover.
TG, what a fun pinwheel quilt! I love how the blocks are all linked together. It goes to show how pretty an all-solids quilt can be.
05-23-2018, 05:23 PM
#222
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Wyoming in the summer, Florida in the winter
Posts: 7,583
I am here ladies, its just been hard trying to make sense of things that are going on in my life right now. To explain, I will try. About a month before we left Florida, I wasn't feeling good and it seemed it just kept getting worse. Nothing you could really say "this is it" but I just knew something wasn't quite right. We got back to Wyoming and I called the doctor the next day, she got me in for an appt. the next day and referred me to another doctor immediately. Since I saw the new specialist it has been a whirlwind. The last 6 days I have had a colonoscopy and 2 surgeries, last 1 yesterday. 1st it was definitely positive for cancer and thought was that it was colon cancer but that came back negative cancer for the colon. Turns out the cancer is in the skin layer before it definitely is in the colon. My surgeon wanted to make certain there was no cancer in the colon so that was for the second surgery yesterday, he took 2 more specimens to send in for a biopsy just to make sure. If they come back negative then the cancer I have is a high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion.....what it amounts to is that the cancer somehow starts in the skin layer before going into the colon or in some cases the uterus. Outcome is that I will have to have chemo and radiation. Until next week when the final results come back I don't for sure if surgery will be involved also.
I have communicated with Janice and have decided that the best option is for me to not participate in Boom 21. I truly will miss this, have been in everyone since I joined the Quilting Board. I will pre-warn all of you, if health wise from the chemo and radiation will let me make blocks I will be on this board and asking for side swaps....I have my fabric all packaged and ready to mail.
I'm not telling all of you this for any sorrow, you are family and I felt that you should know the truth instead of just wondering why I hadn't posted anything. I'm hoping my journey with cancer will be successful and I will be a stronger and better person because of it. I'm not ready for anything else yet, I still have a lot to do
I have communicated with Janice and have decided that the best option is for me to not participate in Boom 21. I truly will miss this, have been in everyone since I joined the Quilting Board. I will pre-warn all of you, if health wise from the chemo and radiation will let me make blocks I will be on this board and asking for side swaps....I have my fabric all packaged and ready to mail.
I'm not telling all of you this for any sorrow, you are family and I felt that you should know the truth instead of just wondering why I hadn't posted anything. I'm hoping my journey with cancer will be successful and I will be a stronger and better person because of it. I'm not ready for anything else yet, I still have a lot to do
05-23-2018, 05:52 PM
#223
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: WNC
Posts: 9,153
Hugs, Jaba, hugs... 
I am here ladies, its just been hard trying to make sense of things that are going on in my life right now. To explain, I will try. About a month before we left Florida, I wasn't feeling good and it seemed it just kept getting worse. Nothing you could really say "this is it" but I just knew something wasn't quite right. We got back to Wyoming and I called the doctor the next day, she got me in for an appt. the next day and referred me to another doctor immediately. Since I saw the new specialist it has been a whirlwind. The last 6 days I have had a colonoscopy and 2 surgeries, last 1 yesterday. 1st it was definitely positive for cancer and thought was that it was colon cancer but that came back negative cancer for the colon. Turns out the cancer is in the skin layer before it definitely is in the colon. My surgeon wanted to make certain there was no cancer in the colon so that was for the second surgery yesterday, he took 2 more specimens to send in for a biopsy just to make sure. If they come back negative then the cancer I have is a high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion.....what it amounts to is that the cancer somehow starts in the skin layer before going into the colon or in some cases the uterus. Outcome is that I will have to have chemo and radiation. Until next week when the final results come back I don't for sure if surgery will be involved also.
I have communicated with Janice and have decided that the best option is for me to not participate in Boom 21. I truly will miss this, have been in everyone since I joined the Quilting Board. I will pre-warn all of you, if health wise from the chemo and radiation will let me make blocks I will be on this board and asking for side swaps....I have my fabric all packaged and ready to mail.
I'm not telling all of you this for any sorrow, you are family and I felt that you should know the truth instead of just wondering why I hadn't posted anything. I'm hoping my journey with cancer will be successful and I will be a stronger and better person because of it. I'm not ready for anything else yet, I still have a lot to do
I have communicated with Janice and have decided that the best option is for me to not participate in Boom 21. I truly will miss this, have been in everyone since I joined the Quilting Board. I will pre-warn all of you, if health wise from the chemo and radiation will let me make blocks I will be on this board and asking for side swaps....I have my fabric all packaged and ready to mail.
I'm not telling all of you this for any sorrow, you are family and I felt that you should know the truth instead of just wondering why I hadn't posted anything. I'm hoping my journey with cancer will be successful and I will be a stronger and better person because of it. I'm not ready for anything else yet, I still have a lot to do
05-23-2018, 06:09 PM
#228
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 2,640
I had an interesting doc appt today. It only took me 10 weeks to get in but was very happy to hear what they said. 9 years ago I had lap band surgery and it was not only a total flop for my losing weight I have had lots of side effects. At the time they poopooed me and blew me off upsetting me to no end. After gull bladder surgery decided to work on my health and removing lap band was high on list. The NP said they no longer perform lap band surgeries, people not only didn’t lose weight but they had many side effects. Imagine that To make long story short next week I will have blood work done and a EGD and UGI. If they don’t see any problems the long process for a lap band removal/ revision will start. Yeah.
05-23-2018, 06:11 PM
#230
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 2,640
Oh let me whine please. I had a fusion done on my greater toe in November last year. Was released in February. Foot was ok, slowly healing (apparently due to age they tell me
). Going along, it swells, painful, and still uncomfortable to walk on. More so lately. I had an appointment a few weeks ago and then canceled telling myself it is just me. Went in yesterday because I just could not stand it anymore to find out I have a stress fracture in my second metatarsal joint. To beat all! This just sucks. I am back into a walking boot for four weeks. You know what this does to my gardening and yard work that needs done? Frustrating because I like to do that kind of work. Going to have to recruit some child labor.
My girls can out work any man I think. I have seen them do it and they don't complain. One more load of compost and two truck loads of loam soil.
Thank you for letting me vent.
). Going along, it swells, painful, and still uncomfortable to walk on. More so lately. I had an appointment a few weeks ago and then canceled telling myself it is just me. Went in yesterday because I just could not stand it anymore to find out I have a stress fracture in my second metatarsal joint. To beat all! This just sucks. I am back into a walking boot for four weeks. You know what this does to my gardening and yard work that needs done? Frustrating because I like to do that kind of work. Going to have to recruit some child labor. My girls can out work any man I think. I have seen them do it and they don't complain. One more load of compost and two truck loads of loam soil. Thank you for letting me vent.
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