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[AkaGoldie]

Celtic, thanks for filling me in. I had a ca125 of 198 a few weeks ago but it was drawn during my copd crisis and dr want to re draw in a couple of weeks . I was not aware of the ova1 test. I'll ask about it. I post from an iPad and iphone, neither device allows paragraphs on this board. So it's not your iPad, all my posts run together too. I hope youget some pretty weather at the beach soon! Have a good time . Goldie

[JackieHN]

Geez Pam, colonoscopy. That prep is something else. The test is nothing as we all know. I curse my Dr out every time. He says, well Jack how was the prep??. I tell him you guys have to go back to the drawing board. I've been on 3 different ones and they all stink. YOu'll get through it. Italian ices and gatorade will get you through it. Along with some good reading in the toilet.

Celtic, hope you aren't driving husband too nuts. My girlfriend Sylvia is having her lumpectomy on Weds. She is so calm. I wish I could send some of that to you. I told you once I was so angry over it that I just wanted it over with. Your going to be fine. Listen, I'm a nurse I know what can happen and it didn't even cross my mind when I was having surgery. Same thing with my other friends and one was an OR nurse. Your going to be in good hands and in a controlled environment.

Raining and miserable here. I guess it's a good day to have my teeth cleaned again. Today is my periodontal cleaning. Whoopie!! That should smart a bit. He told me he's giving me lidacaine. He'll be digging for gold.

Jxx

[CelticAngel]

So I just wrote a detailed post and individual replies but the q board swallowed it. Grrrr. Lovely day at the beach, just what I need. Wish we could stay here until next week! Pam - hope your gastro appt goes well. Thanks for the advice abt not dwelling. Beach is helping. I def qualify for at least 2 buckets of that crazy. LOL Goldie - sorry to hear abt your ca125 being high. All medical professionals have told me it is a nonspecific test. It cld be a lot of reasons why it is high. Hopefully yours will lower next time around. Ova1 is recently approved by FDA for specific purpose. Meant to be used by gyno to let them know if onco referral in order or they can do surgery themselves. My onco ordered "off label". He said insurance may not cover it. I was inclined to do wait and see but decided that if it came back abnormal I'd get surgery. When it came back abnormal it made my decision much easier, so to me it is worth it if I have to pay. DH just returned from Session. Be back later.

[CelticAngel]

Jackie - hope all goes well with your friend Sylvia's lumpectomy. Beach has calmed me somewhat. I have great respect for all of the professionals who will be taking care of me. I'm just convinced I'll be one of those problem cases b/c things that don't bother others I can't tolerate (novocaine, benedryl, cold medicine). I can't even take a daily vitamin. Between that and my low bp, poor circulation and panic disorder I'm not kidding when I say if it isn't good for an 80 year old it probably won't work for me either. Yep, I def qualify for one of those buckets of crazy. LOL ETA: tooth cleaning on a blah day? Is Perio cleaning when they scrape deep down in your gums one quadrant at a time? You better do something nice for yourself afterward.

[wagirl]

On 11/17/2014 JackieHN said:

Geez Pam, colonoscopy. That prep is something else. The test is nothing as we all know. I curse my Dr out every time. He says, well Jack how was the prep??. I tell him you guys have to go back to the drawing board. I've been on 3 different ones and they all stink. YOu'll get through it. Italian ices and gatorade will get you through it. Along with some good reading in the toilet.

Celtic, hope you aren't driving husband too nuts. My girlfriend Sylvia is having her lumpectomy on Weds. She is so calm. I wish I could send some of that to you. I told you once I was so angry over it that I just wanted it over with. Your going to be fine. Listen, I'm a nurse I know what can happen and it didn't even cross my mind when I was having surgery. Same thing with my other friends and one was an OR nurse. Your going to be in good hands and in a controlled environment.

Raining and miserable here. I guess it's a good day to have my teeth cleaned again. Today is my periodontal cleaning. Whoopie!! That should smart a bit. He told me he's giving me lidacaine. He'll be digging for gold.

Jxx

I know---the prep is the pits--or s*hits as it wereI go Dec 5th. But dr said the next time I need one, in 10 years, god willing, it'll be a breeze. Just the prep and then you will swallow a pill with a camera in it at the dr office,that will take several pics a second on it's way thru the whole colon and you go home. Then it is all uploaded at dr office and that is that!! Wait for a call, for an all clear or come see us. Is happening now for some people that can't have the regular colon scope. Pretty cool!!

[JackieHN]

As far as I'm concerned I can give myself a high colonic clean myself out and then go for the test. My Dr didn't like that idea. Only problem with the camera thing is that if you have a polyp in the sigmoid colon they have to go for a colonoscopy. However I like the camera part because there is one curve in the colon that is sometimes missed on colonoscopy due to a lazy Dr who doesn't take their time. I have to go every 3 years. You'll be lucky if you go every 10. Have ahistory of colon cancer in my family. What is the prep that you are taking??

Fangs are clean. Next appointment in 3 months for another cleaning. I said I don't mind you can clean them every month. He dug for gold.

Celtic, what happens when you take benedryl?? By the time you have to go for surgery we'll have you laughing on the way to the OR. Not to worry. I'm glad the beach made you calmer.

Jxx

[wagirl]

Yeah I thought about that too--finding a polyp--will ask my dr next time. I have a script for Moviprep-- heard good and bad about it. I'll talk to the pharmacist about it too, want to find out tips and tricks to making this go easier. Last time my poor bottom got so chapped and raw that I'm sure it glowed in the dark. Came out of it with a thick layer of nice, soothing cream on it and kind of a diaper----- I know--WAY too much info!!! No history of colon cancer in the family which is good.

Still a frosty morning here. Was a beautiful sunrise this a.m. but rain and warmer weather is on the way by tomorrow night. No snow tho.

[JackieHN]

Pam, my husband had no problem with the moviprep. I told my Dr. If he ever orders that stuff for me again I'm going to shove the tube up his bu##. I know him for 30 years, we worked together when he was a resident. Easiest way to do it. Eat lightly for 2 days before the prep. Gatorade and Italian ices during the prep.

Sylvia's lumpectomy was re- scheduled for after Thanksgiving. She's not clotting properly as per her PT/PTT. She's stage 0 so she doesn't care. Today was 3 years since I had my lumpectomy. Happy Anniversary to me.

Celtic are you OK?? Cocoa, hope you are doing better.

[Cocoablue]

Hi Everyone. Thanks for thinking of me. I'm having a very awful time with the loss of Dennis. I can't begin to explain the void I feel. It's unimaginable. I feel like I've been dropped off in an alternate universe. Neighbors who I thought had become friends are no where to be found and offers of help are more words than action. I'm going to counseling and trying to take it one day at a time. We moved here because it was Dennis' dream and while I'm happy he got here for a few years, I didn't really want to come, and now he's gone and I'm here. The irony isn't lost on me but making sense of it is difficult. Diana

[Montana]

On 11/18/2014 Cocoablue said: Hi Everyone. Thanks for thinking of me. I'm having a very awful time with the loss of Dennis. I can't begin to explain the void I feel. It's unimaginable. I feel like I've been dropped off in an alternate universe... Diana

You are right. It is unexplainable. But I know exactly how you feel. I understand about the void. When my Mom passed I felt the same way for a long, long time. In my anguish back then, I wrote poems and one included this line: "I wander in a place unmarked unfamiliar. There is nothing".

I am so sorry for the tremendous pain you are going through.