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I need hip surgery which STOPS my chemo!
This is just too much! It's bad enough I recurred...then thanks to this HMO crap I had to wait forever it seems for my two 2nd opinions. I was suppose to be starting my treatment this coming Tuesday. I get a call today (Saturday) that my rt femur with the bone mets could fracture & needs fixed before I start any chemo. That's more time for my cancer to spread!
It's been recommended several times to MRI my hips to rule out mets long before I recurred...but they always said it was my bursitis or something else. This really upsets me to no end...I could of had this femur fixed while I was NED for the last 3 plus yrs. It's bad enough I had to fight to get the MRI done. And I believe she ONLY OK'd it because she knew I was seeing Dr. Slamon.
Now they (HMO/Doctors) will try to delay me getting this hip fixed while my I have no treatment expect Herceptin. I don't even know how bad my femur is? If the bone is destroyed from cancer...how can they fix it. My Mother went thru two hip surgeries and it was a long recovery. So how am I going to fight my recurrence now? I am beyond stressed & feel like I have no chance at all.
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
Last edited by Chelee; 10-24-2009 at 06:23 PM..
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