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Cancer Diagnosis? Where to go?

You have received a diagnosis of cancer. Where to go? Because of our experience with this terrible disease, My wife Nancy and I have some suggestions to share with you.

Nancy, my wife and my hero, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary this September 25. Only the last 10 years I have come to appreciate and admire their heroic qualities completed with the extraordinary personal adversity. To achieve this it is imperative that doctors and the hospital chose to skills and methods of procedure for the survival of the victim cancer is possible.

Many know me as the author of the target = "_blank"> Manage My Fibromyalgia "Web site and Forum target =" _blank "> where I can describe my life against the effects of what is now known as fibromyalgia, for over 30 years. My life has been difficult and I am now permanently disabled because of this chronic pain and fatigue disorders. What I to cope with my illness is nothing compared with Nancy has successfully treated over the last 10 years.

Nancy has been diagnosed with the dreaded big "C" in 1999. It was the colon and pancreatic cancer. Initially, he was devastated. It was something I feared that since 1973, when he learned he had a condition called familial polyposis. Until then, Nancy raw rectal bleeding due to hemorrhoids that his doctors had told him since he was a teenager. There were thousands of polyps in the colon, too numerous to be eliminated.

[Polyposis family or familial adenomatous polyposis [FAP) is a precancerous condition. This means that a person with FAP, if not always develop cancer. The Individuals with this disorder grow hundreds of polyps in the large intestine. The polyps, also called adenomas, can grow after puberty. Approximately half of patients with familial adenomatous polyposis must polyps by age 14. Ninety percent polyps are detectable in 25 years. Usually, one age 35-40, one or more of these polyps become cancerous.] *

[PAF is a rare disease. One in 8,000 people in the United States have FAP. However, it can be very common in families affected. FAP is inherited as an autosomal dominant. This means that a person with FAP has a 50% chance of inheriting the condition on each of their children. [Gregg Our son has inherited this abnormal gene and their colon removed by the time he was 22]. FAP can also develop a person with no family history of disease due to a new genetic mutation in person. It is believed that about one percent of all colon cancers in the United States can be attributed to the PAF.] *

Nancy was made in 1973 to remove the colon. Doctors believe what they call a "J-pouch" of your intestines to replace her colon and restore normal function of the bowl. It is now necessary to be supervised by the rest of his life. Any formation of new polyps that developed while a precancerous condition, requires the elimination and verification.

This treatment has worked for many years. Since his arrival Virginia, however, she felt uncomfortable with the doctors that I knew. Nancy became his duty medical examination please even after my protests that do not neglect monitoring. This is what probably led to his developing colon and pancreatic cancer in 1999.

The initial response from Nancy to her diagnosis was the immediate devastation. lasted until he met his new doctor Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in New York. He saw doctors at the Sloane after receiving recommendations from family and friends according to their experience with the hospital.

After talking with doctors and respect for other patients with the same state, their feelings devastation became one of hope and resistance to cancer, an attitude that has resisted this.

Since 1999, Nancy was treated and underwent surgery and several procedures related colon, pancreas and lung cancer. However, now free cancer.

The last two years, where they found Nancy polyps developing stomach. They were removed, tested and found showing mild dysplasia. At that time it was thought that could be controlled in this manner until the polyps that more more.

After many consultations and much consideration on the part of Nancy, to avoid any kind of developing cancer of the stomach threatened her life, she opted for a total gastrectomy [Surgical removal of the stomach and intestine connecting directly to your esophagus] October 7, 2008. This radical surgery to prolong their life and ensure that the polyps in the stomach does not become cancer. Her surgeon told us that we should we expect to be in hospital for 5 to 10 days, maybe a week after surgery.

It turned out that this was not the case. October 7, 2008 until his return to his House December 9, 2008, he spent a total of 8.5 weeks in hospital with only a couple of short stays in the house of his sister in New Jersey. There were complications due to leaks in the digestive tract back healing slow, fluid-filled abscess in the chest and related infections. In fact, Nancy returned home to Virginia with two drains still in place.

Doctors in New York gave us the name of a surgeon in Winter Park, Florida. Dr. Timothy Childers, who was to follow up your case. We moved from Virginia to Florida to live in Chuluota my sister December 13, 2008. We left our apartment in Lorton, Virginia, for economic reasons, will stay with my sister in Florida would give us the extra hands to help Nancy recovery.

In a few days to see Childers Dr., for the first time and before it had withdrawn its drainage device, Nancy, once more completed the hospital [the South Florida Hospital Orlando] for another week. He developed a fever and was determined to be a course of infection from an abscess undetected previously filled with liquid. Finally released from the hospital December 27, 2008.

It is now January 6, 2009 and we thank God that Nancy is making slow but steady progress [better days with occasional setbacks] to achieve some sort of normality. Not able to eat the same way as before, but several times a day in smaller portions and you may need a supplement to achieve the goal of 2000 calories per day.

The latter has facing surgery Nancy are the most difficult I've ever seen. It took a toll on his emotions and determination, but I know in my heart that his firm will to live will make a difference and other times remain free of cancer.

Nancy cancer survivors reached a financial cost. Despite its good insurance coverage from their employer, financial was devastated during the last 10 years. We left our house in Stafford, Virginia, in 2005, used up my 401k plan from my employer once again spread my credit on my primary credit card and pay the medical bills are the point of considering bankruptcy [if it goes against everything I believe]. Now we realize we can never travel in our retirement, as expected, or have a place of our own and our years of living together without tension enormous financial pressure.

If I'm not complaining. We hope to God for comfort with thanksgiving. Even if I knew then what I know now, that would certainly do everything again and ask to be my wife Nancy.

After nearly 40 years of marriage, I love you and love my wife more hero than before. It would be really lost in this world without it.

Based on the experience of Nancy with her cancer, and my own experience with prostate cancer who was treated successfully last year, there are several things that are important if we are to successfully fight the battle against cancer:

1. Early detection through controls regular tests are essential.
2. Know your risks [family history, etc.].
3. Learn all you can about your particular cancer.
4. Always get a second opinion or third.
5. If you do not feel comfortable with a doctor, go to another if you do not not trust their doctors of cancer, find new ones.
6. Doctors and hospitals in cancer research cancer.
7. Ask friends and professionals for their recommendations thereon.
8. When was declared free of cancer, not of convenience. More regular reviews and testing to detect any recurrence early.

* Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, published in December 2002 by the Gale Group. The author of the test is Ellen S. Weber, MSN.

About the Author

Bill Wallmuller is the founder of Merokee Enterprises. The author has been living with what is now called fibromyalgia for more than 30 years. You can learn more by visiting the Website: http://www.managing-my-fibromyalgia.com

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