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Friday, December 11, 2009

Latest Update on Treatment..






I don't have many pictures of treatment so I figure I'll just write a bit to get everyone caught up on whats going on. Treatment has been going good.. no complaining here! I actually was really lucky because over Thanksgiving I had my first week off of chemo to get ready for scans. So since I had a break with nothing to do, I decided to throw a surgery in there haha. On Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I had surgery on my mouth. Lets just say... chemo has a way of screwing up just about everything! The surgery went good and I was even able to eat on Thanksgiving:) I just had and MRI, CT Scan, and PET Scan done this last week and the results from all of them were positive! My doctors can't see anything in them to worry about which is great to hear. This week I just started Irinotechan for my 3rd time. I get this chemo 5 days in a row and its a little bit tougher on me than the usual but its going good so far. The picture of my swollen arms above is from the MRI. The nurse put the I.V. for the contrast on the side of my wrist after 2 other tries in my arm. Once she put it in my wrist she kept shoving the needle in further and further and I could feel her popping the vein. I got in to do the MRI and the guy injected the contrast into the I.V. and it literally brought tears to my eyes. I couldn't figure out what the pain was but by the time I sat through a 45 minute MRI with my arm feeling like it was going to explode I kinda freaked out haha. So we went to get the I.V. out and I looked down at my arm and it was HUGE! The nurse had infiltrated my muscle tissue with the IV contrast! Anyways.. long story short, we won't be going back to that hospital! haha the other pictures are just some random ones. Me, Cam, and Crew are showing the manicans at Forever 21 what we are made of... The smiley face in pills is just the amount of pills I take at one time on a normal day:) I've learned you have to find happiness in small things! love you all!!

7 comments:

  1. I still can't believe that nurse did that and didn't even act like she did something wrong. Yah Primary's is def. the place to stay! You are soooo tuff! Love you Tibby!

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  2. Oh man that sounds so painful I can't believe that happened I'm so sorry! I am so glad I got to see you the other day! I found our slide show from drill our sophmore year and it brought back some good memories! I miss you and think your amazing!

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  3. baahahahah tiff i love the pic of you, cam , and crew!! so so so cute!!! keep holding out strong tiff, cousinly love!! youa re amazing and so beautiful to!!! sorry about your arms.. that nurse SUCKSSSSS baahhh i love you sis!!!!

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  4. Tiffy,
    You're so cutee! I'm so sorry to hear about that :(
    Please Please Please Please.. Email Mist, and ask her for my email! (I just don't really want to give it out on internet (you know what II mean?)But you're such a strong and cute girl! I swear you're my best friend, Love always, From SS, Lexie S.

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  5. happy birthday Tiff! Hope you had a great day! Love you lots... and the whole fam too!!

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  6. Tiff, how are you doing? I hope you're doing alright, we all really miss you at dance.

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  7. An MRI scan is a safe and painless test that can provide detailed pictures of organs and other structures inside your body.


    http://mriscan.blogspot.com

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