Thank you. I will be limited by the post-operational changes in my body for a period of 8 months, for example, I am not allowed to heave big weights over 5 Kilogramms, and showering or taking baths will be not as easy as they used to be, over the same period, but after that time, I will be restored to a perfectly normal body by a second operation, and won't have these kinds of limits / diablement any more.
Everything else will be better pretty soon, apart from the fact that the 6-month-treatment MAY cause nausea.
Oh dear, I'm so sorry to hear that - I had been wondering. But it sounds like you're recovering well and that you're in good spirits, which helps a lot. Keep taking good care of yourself!
Thank you ! I keep myself motivated to do everything to help to recover very quickly. And when I will return to Berlin, there are a few other things with my flat that I finally, finally, want to take on / handle. And I keep myself motivated for that as well.
So a brandnew Karin will emerge from this situation.
Dear Karin, I'm glad you will be all right, though eight months is a long time, it's not forever. Please stay as well and happy as you can! Sending good thoughts and hoping for the best.
Exactly on my birthday, even, as I went to the hospital, insisting they had to accept me into hospital, on my birthday. They then unsuccessfully tried to do some diagnostic methods, all of which insisted on intake of liquids, which I couldn't hold, and when they then could see into my abdomen using computer tomography two days later, they immediately sent me to the operation room.
It's a step-by-step schedule / programme, the way that I see it. Each day requires another 'homework' / duty from me, and each day I face another challenge or new situation. But I accept it as it is. I just have to adapt to the situations / changes given to me.
Uhhhrghh, okay, now I have to name what I previously avoided to name, because it is a subject no-one likes to think about. So brace yourself for some pretty hard facts / ugly mental images !
Or skip the following paragraph.
They have removed a malignous cancer in the intestines [plus a little piece of said intestines] that was blocking the passage.
They have run some tests, testing 22 lymph glands/nodules, and the fact that they found only 5 affected (with cancer cells), instead of 7 or more, says that it is unlikely that the cancer has spread to other parts of my body / other locations.
However, in cases such as this, they proceed by doing a chemotherapy just in case to be on the sure side that not a single, wild wandering malignous cancer cell remains in my body.
That chemotherapy will start in the second half of May at the latest, and will last six months. At the earliest, eight months after my operation, which was on April 10th 2014, my artificial 'waste exit' can be re-connected to the rest of my rectum, so normal bodily
( ... )
So sorry to hear about your health problems Karin. I'm glad to hear you're now on the road to a full recovery. Eight months sounds an awful long time but believe me it will go really fast:)
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Everything else will be better pretty soon, apart from the fact that the 6-month-treatment MAY cause nausea.
Thank you for your kind thoughts.
Moral support means a lot to me these days.
Love,
- Karin.
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So a brandnew Karin will emerge from this situation.
:o)
Love,
- Karin.
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You know me. I am always the optimistic kind of girl.
:o)
Love,
- Karin.
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Hope you feel better very soon, thinking of you and sending love and hugs, Jane
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It's a step-by-step schedule / programme, the way that I see it. Each day requires another 'homework' / duty from me, and each day I face another challenge or new situation. But I accept it as it is. I just have to adapt to the situations / changes given to me.
Love,
- Karin.
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Is this a long-term condition, or has the operation rectified it so that you will eventually make a full recovery?
Taking it one day at a time is the only way to cope, I think.
(((hugs)))
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Or skip the following paragraph.
They have removed a malignous cancer in the intestines [plus a little piece of said intestines] that was blocking the passage.
They have run some tests, testing 22 lymph glands/nodules, and the fact that they found only 5 affected (with cancer cells), instead of 7 or more, says that it is unlikely that the cancer has spread to other parts of my body / other locations.
However, in cases such as this, they proceed by doing a chemotherapy just in case to be on the sure side that not a single, wild wandering malignous cancer cell remains in my body.
That chemotherapy will start in the second half of May at the latest, and will last six months. At the earliest, eight months after my operation, which was on April 10th 2014, my artificial 'waste exit' can be re-connected to the rest of my rectum, so normal bodily ( ... )
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It was a shock and a radical 'incision' in my life, which now will forever be divided into the 'time before' and the 'time after', but I am adapting.
Love,
- Karin.
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