{"id":2024,"date":"2016-03-11T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2016-03-15T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T18:47:12","slug":"ring-my-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2016\/ring-my-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"“Ring my bell”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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, said Dr Levine.\u00a0 He installed a bell last year for 5+ year survivers to ring.\u00a0 10 years out, I qualify!\u00a0 What a great guy. \u00a0The last paper I found from him<\/a> details how patients that got CRS with IPHC (the “mother of all surgeries”) live longer than previously suggested, by considering that the farther out you are, the better you do. \u00a0Thanks Dr. Levine, you will always be my personal hero.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: the following Tuesday, I went to see Dr. Vig at Rex (following Dr. Bloom’s referral to a local laproscopic surgeon). \u00a0He works with Dr. Sturdivant now, who used to work with Dr. Cline (and had removed my port while I was in twilight, THAT was fun, like someone rooting around in your chest causing great pain while you watch – but he’s a great, sweet guy). \u00a0He doesn’t think it’s a good idea to poke around with laproscopy. \u00a0The first step is to blow up your peritoneum with gas, to separate all the organs and intestines – and that probably wouldn’t work with all my adhesions, it would just all stick together. \u00a0He suggested a contrast study, where they take X-rays over 3 hours watching the dye go through – or maybe later, a camera-in-a-capsule – but I think I’ll just leave well enough alone for now. \u00a0On with life! \u00a0:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

, said Dr Levine.\u00a0 He installed a bell last year for 5+ year survivers to ring.\u00a0 10 years out, I qualify!\u00a0 What a great guy. \u00a0The last paper I found from him details how patients that got CRS with IPHC (the “mother of all surgeries”) live longer than previously suggested, by considering that the farther … Continue reading “Ring my bell”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-wE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":276,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/one-year-cancer-free\/","url_meta":{"origin":2024,"position":0},"title":"One Year Cancer Free","author":"m","date":"March 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I had my second semi-annual CT scan check yesterday. I was pretty stressed out during the few days before, Andrea was great at keeping my spirits up. She made the haul with me over to Winston-Salem to see our local hero Dr. Levine. The CT scan is a compromise -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":373,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2009\/clean-scan-and-life-is-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":2024,"position":1},"title":"Clean scan, and life is good!","author":"m","date":"March 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I got my semi-annual CT scan last week, and the 9mm tumor near my spleen has not grown at all. NO change. That's about the best news you can get! Dr. Levine says \"keep doin' what you're doin!\" Happy day. Thanks to everyone for the words of encouragement. I suppose\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All My Rowdy Friends"","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1956,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2014\/post-ct-scan-fixer-upper\/","url_meta":{"origin":2024,"position":2},"title":"Post-CT scan fixer upper","author":"m","date":"October 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh.. and I'm clean and talked Dr levine into a 15 month reprieve until the next.\u00a0\u00a0 Yay!","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"wpid-20141024_123334.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-20141024_123334-480x270.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":698,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/time-to-clean-up-the-lungs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2024,"position":3},"title":"Time to clean up the lungs","author":"m","date":"February 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Jan 18th 2010: Scan today showed a lung tumor 'the size of an apricot pit'. Getting it cut out in mid-February. Have no fear, we're on it... UPDATE Feb 20th 2010: I'm sitting in the hospital bed with only two tubes left stuck in me, feeling fit as a fiddle.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":311,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/ct-scan-showed-tumor-growth\/","url_meta":{"origin":2024,"position":4},"title":"CT scan showed tumor growth","author":"m","date":"September 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I got my semi-annual CT scan on Friday, and Dr. Levine reported that a mucinous layer had expanded from 5mm in the previous scan to 9mm. On the previous scan, he had said I was clean, so it sounds like you have to see some change to really tell what's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":883,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/clean-scan\/","url_meta":{"origin":2024,"position":5},"title":"Clean scan!","author":"m","date":"July 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I have SO MUCH to add to the blog but I'm knee-deep in projects and can't find the time! But I did have a 100% clean CT scan - abdomen and lungs - on Wednesday, that's too good a news not to share. Thank you Dr. Levine! Whoop! 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