my condition update

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Hi everyone! I don't remember the last time I actually started a post here about my condition, but I will go back to the beginning of the year. I had just one more cycle of my last regimen left when the year started, but thought that I had finished in December. After I had the last three rounds I thought I would be found cancer free, but when the doctor did the exam on Jan 30, I showed her a spot on my scar that was painful every time the cat stepped on it and it turned out to be a solid tumor instead of being pus-filled like she was hoping it would be. She did a biopsy on it on Monday because the antibiotics she had given me on Wednesday hadn't cleared it up by Monday. I got the word on Thursday that it was the same kind of cancer cell that I had been treated for all along and that I would be starting a new treatment and getting the tumor removed on the 21st of Feb. I got through that ok, but it had snowed the day of the surgery so I was able to get to the hospital, but then the person who took me there didn't want to drive in the snow so I had to spend the night, mostly because they didn't want me to stay home alone the night after surgery. I got home the next day only to find my car buried and I had trouble getting out later in the week because the snow behind it was frozen and I had to go to the store or something. A week later I spent a week in St. Louis for a disaster services training institute so I could do some classes that I had wanted to get into for some time. It snowed again when I was there so when I got home on Saturday it was really hard because I had to get food for the cats and my car was frozen in again. Oh well...I finally was able to get dug out before I had to go to Ellis for my first treatment. It wasn't easy, but I managed. I have finished two cycles of weekly taxol now (six weeks). They gave me two ca-125 results and it went down from 66 to 54 in a week so it seems to be working. I will see what happens next week when they do the next one before my next doctor visit. On the last visit my doctor was the on-call surgeon for gynecological emergencies at the hospital so I wasn't able to see her so hopefully she will be there next week. My hair started falling out last week so I got it buzzed off so that I wouldn't have to worry about it any more. I was so disappointed because they told me because of the smaller dose that it might not fall out only thin but no such luck. Oh well...I'll live and I will be stronger for it! Thanks for listening to another rant.