To Lyn

[Lolly]

Hi Lyn,
I've heard of that happening from broken bones that didn't heal up, and that sometimes bone grafts are performed. I assume they would take a bit of your bone from somewhere else and graft it where it's needed.
I hope the radiation does a job on that neck lump, what a pain in the neck that must be, oops, pun intended :)
Love, Lolly

[Sheila]

Lyn
You seem to be going through alot right now...those neck lumps can be a pain in the ...neck as Lolly said. Here's hoping things improve quickly for you. You are in my prayers.
Hugs
Sheila

[eleanor]

Hi Lyn,
boy you are a complicated case. I hope the dr's will be able to help you. You have more than enough to worry about without this being added to it. I almost lost the use of my left arm and have to have radiation for 4 weeks. I will say it worked for me but it was a horrible experience. I hope yours goes much smoother.
I'll be saying a prayer for you.
el

[Lyn]

Thanks Lolly, the propose a shoulder replacement that will relieve the pain but don't believe I will get anymore movement than I already have, I am sure I was warned of the same thing when I had my left neck Barbecued at the end of 1998. Fingers Crossed, while I still can of course.

Love & Hugs Lyn

[Lolly]

Hi Lyn,so glad to hear it's working! The heat application sounds verrrry interesting, given that is one of the ways they can ablate liver tumors also.
About feeling the lump often to see if it's shrinking; shortly before I started my latest treatment I saw my dematologist for my rosacea, and told him I was starting back in treatment so we started talking about cancer. He asked to check the size of the lumps, and I joked about how I had no perspective anymore because I was feeling them all the time. He told me that when he first entered medical school he was actually going to aim for hemotology and oncology, so one of the courses was the study of lymphoma. He said he started feeling his lymph nodes alot, convinced they were enlarged, and after about a week they WERE enlarged to the point that he ended up at the clinic to have them looked at. He sat down in the waiting room, looked around and saw 3 others from his class there, waiting to have their lymph nodes checked! He said there's actually a name for the condition, which I now forget, but it was something like "First Year Medical Student Syndrome". He told me, "DON'T CHECK YOUR LYMPH NODES ALL THE TIME!"
I promised him I wouldn't, and so I've made a great effort to check them only once a week, on Sunday morn when I shower, VERY GENTLY!
Just wanted to share this with you, thought you'd find it funny and also food for thought.
Good luck there!
Love,
Lolly

[Lolly]

Hey Lyn, it's good to hear from you, and I thought that it was probably the treatment effects but just checking, you know...I did have some radiation to the base of my neck during first line treatment, over the right collarbone and a little farther up, but it was a preventative measure as we didn't know then if they were actually involved but assumed so since my right axillary nodes were 5 of 5 +.
Haven't needed more so far, the Herceptin/Navelbine combo is keeping them in check. As part of the clinical trial screening I'll get another PET scan, and it will be very interesting to see if the nodes that lit up this spring are "normal", and I will be keeping the board posted on this.
You're so right, you have already beaten the odds and another 40 years sounds good to me!
Looking forward to the glam shots!
Love, Lolly