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Vital Info

Name:
MARY ELLEN BOWMAN (maryellen)

Member Since:
May 14, 2009

Location:
UPPER DARBY, Pennsylvania

Birthday:
9/8/1951

Profile:
Cancer Survivor

Cancer Info

Type of Cancer:
Endometrial-Uterine Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer:
ENDOMETRIOD ENDOMETRIAL ADENOCARCINOMA

Diagnosis Date:
December 31, 1969

Stage of Cancer:
Stage 1

Tumor Size:
02

Grade of Tumor:
Grade 3

Lymph Node Involvement:
No

Surgery:
Hysterectomy, Lymph Node Removal

What I Hate Most About Cancer:
WAITING FOR TEST RESULTS UNNECCESSARILY-learned that i csan pick up test result at medical records rather than wait for doctors

What I Have Learned From Cancer:
IT IS LIKE A WHISPER...CREEPS ALONG SOFTLY UNTIL....

Things My Supporters Can Do To Help:
PRAY FOR ME

Metastasized? Where?:
MUSCLE OF UTERINE WALL

Endometrial-Uterine Cancer Symptoms:

SINCE JANUARY 2009 I HAVE BEEN EXTREMLY TIRED NEEDING NAPS TO GET THROUGHT THE DAY
WAS USING PROVIRGIL..NOT SURE IF THIS WAS CANCER OR RESULT OF LIVING WITH CRONIC PAIN

12 MONTHS AGO I REPORTED A ODOR AND A WATERY DISCHARGE …

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects:

6/24/09 ROBOTIC HYSTORECTOMY
not too bad..pain pills take away pain
i was up and walking in 24 hours
..was told 4 days after bladder was nicked and that was more of a problem than anything else..HEALED IN 28 DAYS

bowels were working in 4 days…some gas and discomfort before a movement but livable

EXACTLY 5 WEEKS LATER I FELT PERFECT…

Radiation or Proton Therapy Description, Dates & Side Effects:

initially told not need
7/6/09 told raDIATION WILL BE NEEDED WHEN I HEAL
FROM MY SECOND SURGERY..MY SURGEON NEVER CHECKED THE NODES WHEN HE DID HYSTERECTOMY I HAD TO FIND A NEW SURGEON AND HAVE LYMPHN NODE REMOVAL 8/6/09 27 NODES REMOVED NO CANCER

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects:

INITIALLY TOLD NONE NEEDED

7/6/09 MY DOCTORS REISDENT CALLED AND SAID NONE NEEDED BUT AT THIS POINT I DO NOT TRUST MY DOCTORS AND WILL SEEK NEW HELP

SURGERY 8/6/09 REMOVAL 27 NODES NO CANCER…SO NO CHEMO WILL BE NEEDED

Fundraising Description:

NONE NEEDED…I HAVE INSURANCE AND HAD TO 6500. ANNUAL DEDUCTIBLE

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MARY ELLEN BOWMAN's Cancer Blog

SURGERY 27 NODES REMOVED -I AM CANCER FREE

SURGERY FOR LYMPH NODE REMOVAL

WOW THIS SURGERY WAS DIFFICULT..THE NEW SURGEON USED THE ORIGINAL 5 HOLES AND THE DAVINCI ROBIT.. THIS SURGERY WAS 4 HOURS..27 NODES REMOVED ..NO CANCER…

AFTER THE SURGERY MY SURGEON DID CUSCPIC (CAMERA IN BLADDER)
AND INSERTED CATHERER… WHEN I WOKE UP IN RECOVERY I WAS IN PAIN..THE CATHERER WAS TO BLAME….THE PAIN LASTED 12 HOURS…SEEMS LIKE NO “PYRIDIUM WAS ORDERED FOR PAIN AND RELIEF OF FREQUENT URINATION” I WANTED TO DIE TWICE THAT NITE…ANYWAY BY 9AM MY HUSBAND BROUGHT THE PYRIDIUM AND 4 HOURS LATER I WAS HOME AND THAT PAIN ENDED… HAD TERRIBLE NAUSEA FOR 2 DAYS AND I WAS NOT ALLOW NAUSEA MEDICINE UNTIL I HAD A BOWEL MOVEMENT..I GUESS THE DOCTORS WERE RIGHT 2 SURGERIES BACK TO BACK WOULD BE ROUGH IN MY BODY AND IT WAS… THEN TO TOP IT OFF I AM ALLERGIC TO IODINE AND SOMEONE SWIPE MY BOTTOM WITH IODINE AND I LOOKED LIKE A WATERMELON FROM ONE HOLE TO THE OTHER…THIS WAS RECTOFIED AT 9PM BY THE NICE RESIDENT DOCTOR WHO ORDERED LINOCAINE WHICK STOPPED THE SWELLING AND STOP SOME OF THE PAIN…. ANYWAY NOW A WEEK LATER..THE BAD MEMORIES ARE STARTING TO FADE… I AM SO HAPPY I HAVE NO CANCER IN ME…NO CHEMO WILL BE NEEDED AND I WILL KNOW HOW MUCH RADIATION WHEN I SEE MY DOCTOR IN THE 19TH… THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO ANSWERED MY QUESTIONS AND GOT ME THIS FAR..

Posted on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 11:57:12 AM by MARY ELLEN BOWMAN (SURGERY 27 NODES REMOVED -I AM CANCER FREE, 1 comment, 3776 views)

Stacy sent you a prayer.

7/23/09 MEETING WITH DR RUBIN-ORIGINAL SURGEON

I REALLY WAS HESITATE TO GO AND MEET THIS MAN AGAIN..I DID NOT THINK I COULD CONTROL MY TEMPER…BUT I DID

I ARRIVE FOR MY APPT., I REALLY DREADED ANOTHER INTERNAL…
I HAVE DONE THIS 3 TIMES IN 7 DAYS…BUT IT HAD TO BE..LIKE MOST THINGS CONCERNING CANCER IT HAS TO BE DONE…

HE ENTERS THE EXAM ROOM…INSERTS ONE FINGER AND IN ONE SECOND SAYS I AM HEALING FINE..AND TELLS ME TO GET DRESS AND MEET HIM IN HIS OFFICE

MENTIONED TO HIM MY BLADDER IS LEAKING AND HE SAYS DO NOT WORRY ABOUT IT TILL AFTER ALL PROCEDURES ARE DONE-(HE REALLY DOES NOT CARE) HE TELLS ME HE SUGGEST ONLY RADIATION TO THE CUFF OF THE VAGINAL..I ASK HIM ABOUT THE LYMOH NODES..HE SAID THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE THE PATH REPORT ABOUT THE LYMPHVASCULAR INVASION…HE SAYS HE NEVER DID THE DISSECTION BECAUSE HE FELT THAT I LOOKED GOOD AND DID NOT HAVE CANCER….(MY LABS REPORT STATED I HAD CANCER AND A TUMOR BUT HE DECIDED I DID NOT….HE SAID NOTHING HAPPEN DURING THE 6 HOUR SURGERY THAT WAS UNUSUAL AND IT TOOK SO LONG BECAUSE HE WAS SETTING UP THE MACHINE…NEEDLESS TO SAY I WAS KNOCKED AT 7:30 AND THE PROCEDURES ENDED 6 HOURS LATER.

HE SAID THERE WAS ONLY 2% CHANCE OF CANCER IN LYMPH NODES AND THAT HE WOULD NOIT SUGGEST HAVING THEM REMOVED..(HOW COULD HE SAY ANYTHING BUT THAT) THAT WAS ALL HE SAID..HE SAT THERE STRAIGHT FACE NO APOLOGY

ALL DOCUMENTS OPERATING REPORT AND ANESTIA REPORT SAY THAT HE WAS TO DO LYMPH NODE DISECTION…THAT CANNOT BE DONE
NOW BECAUSE HE REMOVED THE TUMOR…MY ONLY CHOICE IS COMPLETE REMOVAL

Posted on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 9:40:39 AM by MARY ELLEN BOWMAN (7/23/09 MEETING WITH DR RUBIN-ORIGINAL SURGEON, 1 comment, 3645 views)

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