The Rest of December

December 19th, 2011
After the long weekend, missing Paige's birthday and spending the whole weekend in the hospital, I now have to do follow up appointments. Went to Dr. Kamelle's today. Ended up being placed on an antibiotic for a course of 10 days to clear up the infection in my incision. Because it was going to be over the holiday he made sure to also give me a pill for yeast infections in case that would happen with being on the antibiotic.

Christmas...

We had a good Christmas, went to my Dad's for Christmas Eve and Mom's house for Christmas Day. I stayed at my Mom's house till the day after Christmas. I finally went home to my apartment. That was a very long painful drive home. It was my first time driving that far by myself since the surgery. It was nice to be back in Milwaukee. But I had to keep in mind that all though I was home that didn't mean I was healed. I was still not allowed to lift anything over 10 pounds, and needed to continue resting. My sister and friends helped me to do laundry and grocery shopping.

I still had a lot of doctors appointments to go to, the following Wednesday I  saw Dr. Nolan and the Genetics Counselor.

The purpose of seeing the Genetic Counselor was to see if there was a reason other than your One in a million that I had Endometrial Cancer at the age of 27.  She went over my family history with me like a fine tooth comb. Afterwards she advised me that she will be testing the tumors that were removed from me during the surgery and if the 4 main genes that need to be there are present that this is not a genetic issue. however if one is missing then I would have Lynch Syndrome. And if I have it one of my parents, grandparents, and sister would all have it as well. Of course this would explain why I got it however I don't want that to be the case either.

It was almost a month before the results were back but I did not have Lynch Syndrome... So One in a Million it is.