Guest guest Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Lynn, I hope you are feeling better now. Infection is nothing to minimize and I'm glad you overcame it. My dad had colon surgery at age 67 and he survived the surgery fine. It was the infection he got that took his life. He kept calling them and telling them he had pain but they said he was just a worrier. After two weeks of pain and just laying on the couch, he went to the doctor's office. The doctor took one look at him and said, "You need emergency surgery NOW." Dad was dead 2 days later from infection. If only they would have listened to him and seen him earlier, they might have been able to beat the infection. So I'm glad you did well! You survived a very serious complication and now you are home and doing well. Thank God for that. You take care of yourself, Lynn. God bless you. Jill Been away - New Members - etc.... While going full steam ahead with my recovery, I just got knocked flaton my butt. Good think it has some padding! I came down with a staphinfection that put me in the hospital for 7 days. They even didsurgery to clean out the infection and put in a drain. But - the goodnews is that morphine works great (I don't even remember most of theweek), the infection is now under control and I was releasedyesterday. I hope no one else gets this. I think it was worse thanchemo and radiation!Welcome to all the new members. Sorry for the circumstances thatbrought you here, but you have come to the right place. The ladieshere are awesome. I wanted to mention that I had some bad days at first too. I used tocall them my pity-party days. And some of them were pretty bad. Theygot fewer as time went on. Now they are just about obsolete! I had alumpectomy last Sept followed by a mast in November. I then haddose-dense chemo, followed by radiation. I used to count the numberof treatments left until I would move to the next step - 6 down, 2left, then 7 down only one to go..... Each treatment would bring mecloser to winning the prize (being cancer free), so I looked forwardto each one. If any of you have any questions I can answer pleasefeel free to ask. I got so much support from the people on this group.Gee, I hope I'm making sense here - not only do I have to deal withchemo-brain but now I've got morphine-brain on top of it!!!Lynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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