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Good Morning. Well I ended up in the hospital Mon. Severe right flank pain. It started in my back were my kidney was and the next day severe pain in between rib and hip radiating down. So 4 hr later got bad nees my cancer has progressed in just 2 and a half weeks from my sept 1 ct saying stable. To this past mon ct saying growth in them all and a new one along my lateral transending colon. Great. So take my copy of my ct right away to my cancer clinic next daoor to hospital and spoke with my nurse. So i had a apoint with her yesterday. I had my oldest daughter come with me because i was scared. Well during the time i developed severe left flank pain in my left now same area is right. My oncologist says it is definitely not coming from my tumors the pain. On either side she examined  me thoroughly. The ct did show alot of bowel in my colon. I said i saw that but strange because i actually been going likr 3 times almost daily over the weekend except mon nothing. Then tiny bit tues. But i started restorolax on mon. So long story short i spoke with my oncologist she said that gemcitibing no longer working
 My ca125 levels jumped up 500!!!! Wow.
Ok so she mentioned that i can go on taxol.but being that i was allergic to it in my first treatment ok abraxane. But only as 1 regiment cannot be combined with avastan or any other.  She mentioned that it been shown that it has some good results going back on. She said we can hit it hard with lrh dosage and then have delays while your levels go back up. Or just do it at a reduced dosage and see how things go. Because ive bern on chemo now 2 and half yrs. I
My bone marrow has definitely taking a hit. 
 She said oh course id lose my hair. Fine. So we will keep an eye on my ca125 markets and do a scan in 3 months. If that dont work she said we will go back to trying caeylx.. I had hand and foot syndrome the first time. So she wants to try these again first because the other chemo and she told me what they are she said dont have a very good success rate or outcome.
So in the meantime i spoke to my family dr he said if my pain in both sides dont calm down to get my butt back to hospital. I could only do ph call apoint with him as he was fully booked up and he cannot really diagnose over the ph. I guess my biggest concern is bowel infection so. I did have some blood in my stool yesterday. Thats scary. Today looks ok. So this is where i am at as of now. Today finally warm outside last 2 days it dropped from like 28 to 15 in temp yikes. Fall is coming. Leaves all turning mostly and falling

 

@Eileen
That is a lot going on and I am so sorry to hear of all your pain.  Sometimes we definitely do have more questions then there are answers for.  Congratulations (formally) on your daughters engagement. Sounds like your doctors are on top of things and will find something to get you going on.  Enjoy some of this beautiful weather and soak up the sunshine. Always makes me feel better. 

Ok i tried to answer your questions @Strongwoman but after trying to post it. It said it has to be approved first before it will post.

Ty @Strongwoman. No i haven't found out how he proposed yet. I will ask when their back. As for pain and what they can give me. Not much i am allergic to codiene. Hydromorpine. Morphine. Tramadol. Sulfa. Macrobid. Those pain drugs i get racing heart and severe stomach pain. Sweats. Chills. Fever etc. Yeah not fun. The tramadol big huge yellow blisters i break out. Of corse due to my gastric issue and chemo ibuprofen out of the question. But the dr did give me a toridol shot in the hospital on mon as he said he pretty sure 1 will be ok.
No i havent lost faith in my team. My oncologist is so caring. Yeah the new hit me really hard. Like how can. 1 tumor develop and grow to 2.3 cm in w and half weeks. And of course we are going to be keeping an eye on the 3mm left lingular. Nodule they found on my lung. I reasked her that im now concerened that.  I mentioned to her that when i saw the big jump in my ca125 levels late sat from my blood work fri after meeting with her i was going to call but ended up in hospital on mon instead. That i thpught it could be for sure cancer.  She mentioned to my daughter what was found on sept 1ct and that she mentioned it normally doesn't spread to the lungs. But I still don't find that reassuring after the big jump. She mentioned that it could be from that 1 tumor that grew. The hospital didnt do a full chest abd and pelvic ct. As i only had pain my my right flank they only did a abd and pelvic. Yeah is scary to thing it could be cancer on my lung. Its going to be constantly their thinking about it.  I cried when i found out that it had progressed. I felt alone and scared. So it made me really happy that my oldest daughter said yes she will come with me to my oncologist apoint to discuss next options. I truly believe without chemo my tumors will grow exceedingly fast if this new one  that developed and grew this size in 2 weeks
is any indication. My kids have their own life. Alot of times i feel left out and alone. I did mention to my oldest daughter i am stsrting to get lonely. Cannot go anywhete that costs money i dont have. On other hand my social worker reached out to organizations. We found a place that volunteers people for people who arent seniors yet. Yeah. To help wiyh housework preparing food. Etc. So i got signed up for that. Also signed a form so that my social worker has permission to check on my low income housing statis. And she also in the mentime found an organization that will help with rent subsidy. So filled out a form for that and got approved. So now they will help for 3 months to subsidize my rent and will reevalute it then. Opps just got a call from the hospital my req for more blood transfusion just came through i have to go to the lab today for blood work and then to hospital for nlood transfusion tomorrow at 9am

@Eileen I am so sorry to hear of your news about the pain and growth of tumour. It must be so scary for you. I will be thinking of you and hoping like heck that you get better news soon and continue to find support from your family. Sometimes they just don’t want to believe it. My friend’s middle son couldn’t accept it for months, but once he did, he left his job and moved back to her town and helped his sister help their mother and was there till the very end. He even made her a coffin, which she loved. After the COL he moved back to Vancouver and has been much more attached to the family ever since. 

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@mjmck Hope you get this cleared up and can head home soon. I have not yet had a bowel obstruction but, like you, I do feel slightly prepared as a result of the discussions on this site. Actually, I didn't realize a bowel obstruction could last that long. My oncologist is constantly going on about not getting a bowel obstruction and to be sure that I do everything correctly in relation to anything bowel-related. I had never really given it too much thought but it is bound to happen sooner or later, so I am going to start arming myself with as much knowledge from this site as possible in order to be prepared. 

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