7/29 Trixie AMBG 146 "+3" 81 PMBG 170

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Amy&TrixieCat

Amy&TrixieCat

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Trix has been in a pretty gluttonous mood this morning, which is always great to see. Unfortunately I also just startled her by dropping the lancet device out of my shirt pocket while she was eating :roll: . Last evening, her PMBG was pretty high (175), and later that evening she pooped...I'm still holding on to the possible correlation between those higher numbers and poop!

Thank you for all the prayers for my Dad. Unfortunately, the news continues to be pretty bad, and we still don't have the full picture or a course of treatment for him. It actually looks like he most likely has 3 types of cancer at once: rectal, pancreatic, and prostate. It is unlikely for any of these to spread to any of the other locations, so that is why the doc thinks this. There is iffy imagery in the CT scan on the lungs and liver, which may or may not be anything. So, before an course of treatment can be determined (which would be palliative), he needs to have a PET scan done. The doctor is out all week next week, of course, so our next meeting with him is on Monday, August 11. He is still symptom-free....this is all so unreal - he is a man who, as the doctor said has "virtually no medical history" because over the course of almost 82 years, the only issue he has ever had is mildly elevated BP. I'm starting to research clinical trials and second opinions...we live close to some pretty big cancer centers.

I'll be thinking of everyone here, but my ability to post right now is a bit shaky while I digest this news yet again.....

Amy
 
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I am so very sorry Amy. ((((HUGS))))((((HUGS))))((((HUGS)))) Please know I am praying and thinking about you and your family.
 
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Yikes, I am soooo sorry. I'm sending tons of prayers. I'm glad he is feeling okay but what a shock. Vines and prayers are coming your way and will continue as he and your family fight this battle.
 
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Morning Amy ~O) ~O) ~O)

Another beautiful start for Trixie. Love the BG's, love the green! I wish could remember which member it was here that used to call those poops "Magical poo!", becasue they were! she was a firm believer that they were just that. it arrived, and the bg's went back down.

Continued good thoughts, vines and hugs for your dad. It is unreal, after 82 years of good health. That alone I think gives him a fighting chance. Good luck on your research. I am sure you will make a great advocate for him, and help him make good decisions. hugs to all there.

Have a great day today. I hope all goes well.
 
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Amy, I'm so sorry to hear this news with your dad's diagnosis. However, I'm with you on thinking a second opinion might be in order...especially because he is symptom free AND because his doctor will be out of town all next week (there's never a good time for doctors to be out of town.) I continue to pray for your dad and you and your family. Please give Trixie some scritches from me because I like her numbers today and I like that she's ravenous and I love that she pooped last night! ;-) ((HUGS)) to you, my friend. :YMHUG:
 
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Amy... BIG {{HUGS}}, don't think about any of us in LL. We will miss your presence here, but please find a way to spend quality time with your dad. Does he live near you?
 
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Sending more prayers and hugs. I'm glad Trixie is doing so well so you don't have to worry about her so much.
 
Blech on that PMBG, but she hit green earlier so we do know Ms P is in the house. She was bright-eyed and ready for round 1 of din-din when I got home.

My parents actually live right around the corner from me (or, I guess technically I live around the corner from them!), so I can be available at a moment's notice. Please do continue the prayers...this news is all so fresh and shocking, but "my generation" isn't giving up without a fight, so we need all the strength we can get. Hopefully we can get my Dad motivated to go to a better cancer center than the local hospital. We live near Penn, Fox Chase, and Johns Hopkins is within a reasonable distance...
 
((((Amy)))) continuing to keep you and your family in my thoughts and hoping a second opinion can help. :YMHUG: :YMHUG:

Good on Trixie being the glutton today, less for mommabean to worry about.
 
Amy, my bother's mother-in-law has been healed from pancreatic cancer. So far, so good. I will call my brother in MS. this week and find out which cancer center, or treatment center that "Mickie" went to. I do know that she did an experimental treatment that has not been done before. She was told that the tumor was too large to operate on. At this center, I think they may have put her on a specific, strict diet, and I believe she may have had some type of tube inserted directly into the site of the tumor from outside of her body. I''ll ask my brother more about it when I phone him. I do know that to do this treatment she had to be close to the center, so she had to move right next to the center for many months. But the treatment worked!
 
Still have you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. There is always hope! remember that! These days cancer is being cured in many individuals, and it sounds like your Dad is in good physical condition to take on any kind of treatment prescribed. I agree a second opinion is a good thing to have/get in the meantime. Good that Trixie is eating better(and pooping!)
 
Thank you again, everyone. Tina, thank you for finding out the extra info for me! This has been one hell of a couple weeks.

I just got back from my parents' house, and we do have him convinced to call Penn tomorrow to schedule a visit with a pancreatic cancer team. It's still very daunting, but this is much better than sticking with the local hospital. I'd prefer Johns Hopkins, but Penn is more convenient and they are fixated on that, and it's still much, much better than what we have here. In the meantime, thank God he still feels as if nothing is wrong - one of the many factors that makes this whole thing unbelievable.....
 
(((Amy))) I'm sorry about the news, that is tough. Cancer treatments have progressed tremendously so there's an excellent chance, especially if he goes to Penn. Many, many vines for DF, you and the whole family.
Liz
 
Sending love, healing vines, good thought vines, strength vines, love and prayers to your entire family.

I will keep you in my nightly prayers
 
((((Amy and Trixie))) Sending tons more prayers, hugs and healing vines to you and your family!!! Sorry to hear the initial meeting was like this, keep persevering-I like the idea of the 2nd opinion too, especially since you are close to some of the best hospitals and treatment centers. That stinks that the PET scan has to wait until August, waiting in limbo-land is the worst part! Please take care of yourself as well, it's easy to get run down when you're in the middle like this - :YMHUG: :YMHUG:
 
Amy, first, BIG HUGE LOOOOOONG HUG....lots of thoughts and prayers continue. Sounds like you're on the right path.

Headbutts Trixie,

More hugs Amy,
 
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