Dear Ladies
A conversation with a lovely Lass on here prompted me to ask my CSN a bit more about my recent hysterectomy.
As it was radical I assumed the lymph nodes where removed but it turns out they weren’t.
It all started when I had a polyp removed which the doctor said looked normal and nothing to worry about... phew! But I was then told it contained a grade 3 aggressive cancer.
Next step CT scan which I was told showed all organs normal so a good chance the cancer was confined to the polyp (CSN nurse comment). Phew again.
The surgeon came to see me on the ward following hysterectomy and said he wasn’t expecting what he found; extensive adhesions, ovaries stuck down, organs squashed and moved around and having to move the bladder around a lot to cut stuff away.
Anyway back to the lymph nodes: I dug a little deeper yesterday and CSN tells me he didn’t remove them because he’s not sure if what he found was cancer or endometriosis (I suffered from this for years).
He took biopsies of the peritoneal and omentum because they looked ‘unusual’ and might revisit the lymph nodes later... more surgery?
If it’s cancer then he feels chemotherapy will deal with it. I vaguely recall the surgeon saying he had left something because I had already been in surgery for 3 hours but was hooked up to a morphine drip so not quite with it.
I don’t understand how the CT scan could come back clear and not show all these internal anomalies. Also surely a surgeon knows the difference between cancer and Endometriosis?
My next clinic appointment is not until 8th January and I’m having a ‘What If’ Day today!
I suppose it’s highly likely I have Endometriosis and Cancer and he’s hedging his bets.
can anyone shed any light on any of this for me? I know you’re not medics but what do you make of all this?
apologies for the long post and thanks in advance
