Friday, February 13, 2009

I HATE CANCER

Well, I haven't blogged in a while and I'm sorry about that. I healed really well from my radiation sores/burns and things were going well for a while. But for some reason I was experiencing headaches and sever memory loss. Add to that sleep deprivation due to my insomnia and I felt like a mess. I told my medical oncologist about my symptoms and he said that it is probably something known as "chemo brain" or "chemo fog" and as for the insomnia, well that's normal with the Herceptin treatments I'm still on.

Needless to say, he wanted to move up my PET Scan from April to this past week. Well, I had the scan on Tuesday and yesterday I was told that the cancer seems to have spread to lymph nodes in my chest on the left side. He's ordered me a CAT Scan and I will have to have surgery to remove the nodes in order to biopsy them. I'm not sure when all this will take place, but I will keep you informed.

Please keep me in your prayers and I will hopefully have some good news to report soon!

God Bless,
N~

5 Comments:

Debs said...

I love you and am here for you.. I am sorry you're having such a battle. But know that there are so many of us praying for you.. I want to come see you and bring Doobys. Lets do some stuff for fun and get your mind off all this work of healing your body has to do.

lisi said...

hey noelle~
thanks for posting.. i'm so sorry that you have experienced such pain.. i wish that i could take your tears and yuckiness moments physically and make it all much much better.. crap
that's my sentiment and now.. i'm fighting in my spirit with our loving papa and believing he will sweep away and push out disease and carry your heart to still waters and rest and renewal.. ahhh.. instead of i wish, i know that love can't be taken from us and god's perfect love throws out the bad guy and the bad times and the poopy blah situations.. blasts them right out of the flippin' water! and we are placed and seated right into the refuge, the throne, the safe place where he hangs out with you and i.. wooooo!
i believe.. not in the thing that will leave, but in our savior saving us from _______________________!
but i still wish i could hug you!! hehehe big hugs, with thanks! lis

Anonymous said...

KEEP FIGHTING HARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH! Through all the long nights, and all the tearful prayers, not one moment is missed, or drop uncaught. You Noelle, are a DAUGHTER of God so near, and your face glows in His eyes like a million stars.

Anonymous said...

Hi Noelle,
Look me up and shoot me an email via myspace when you get the time.

Thanks,
Jesse Laraux

Noëlle said...

Hi Jesse,

I searched for your name on MySpace and I get the 323,000 results. Here's my MySpace page if it helps: www.myspace.com/noellemonteith

Noelle