August 31st, 2010

The CT scan was done last night at five pm and by 8AM I received a call from the surgery scheduler. Dr. Finne and the Radiologist did not like what they saw. I will be going in for surgery tomorrow at 2PM. They are going to try to drain the abscess completely and will likely be putting in an additional drain through the abdomen. I find it hard to believe that I am so full of infection and yet my body shows no signs of fighting it off. No fever, no chills, aren't those signs that the body is fighting infection?
It makes me wonder if the chemotherapy took away all of my immune fighting abilities. Dr. Finne spoke with Dr. Oken to find out what his intentions are for me. It sounded like Dr. Oken was planning on doing more chemotherapy to make sure that I was in total remission. I was told in a blessing that I was given that the cancer is in remission and I believe it. I wonder if the problems that I am having now are not all caused from the chemo and rituxin. I have never had problems like this until I started getting treated with all these drugs. They are horrid and do a lot of damage to even the good cells. The bowel also get's hit hard by them. I had my troubles with the bowels during the treatments. Whatever the cause of my problems now, it is going to take a miracle to cure them or surgery to correct things.