Amanda-DS's Blog

Life guarding almost completed!!!

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:01:00 -0700

I love the DS and truly am grateful to my surgeon Dr Peters and the DS on a daily basis.

As many of you have followed my journey know that I have autoimmune arthritis that is much improved since surgery. Still there but that I am able ...

teh medical facts about farts

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:01:00 -0700

Here is my medical take on this subject. And I do have the medical degree to back up these facts.

1/3 of all humans produce methane gas in their farts, these are typically smellier than non-methane farts.

so the reality is if your farts smelled before surgery they are going to ...

LABOR DAY

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:25:00 -0700

I hate that summer is almost over. I enjoy the warmer days and the later days. It feels good to have that much sunshine.

With work I am now in the office 5 days a week. Working shorter days but more of them. Luckily I am in one office mainly ...

MYTH debunked

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:18:00 -0700

BOWEL HABITS AFTER GASTRIC BYPASS VERSUS DUODENAL SWITCH OPERATION. OBESITY SURGERY.2008.AUGUST 28. AUTHORS: WASSERBERG, N ETAL
BACKGROUND: One of the perceived disadvantages of the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch operation is diarrhea. The aim of this study was to compare the bowel habits of patients after duodenal switch operation or ...

Hubby done with radiation

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:47:00 -0700

Steve finished the 17th radiation treatment yesterday. He is glad to get the daily radiation over. Now he is just needing to heal the area of radiation and get over the tiredness that has started getting worse. I am doing okay, we are in the busy season for the family. David ...

Happy St Paddy's day

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:58:00 -0700

Well we are needing the luck of the Irish in this house as Steve starts radiation tomorrow. As I am one to cover my bases besides my st paddy's green shirt I had on a necklace with an anchor, a horn, an elephant, a hamsa, a heart, and evil eye ...

weight is stable

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:31:00 -0800

I lost quite a bit of weight the first week of Steve's lymphoma. Not sure how much but jeans that were in the pile to go to Salvation Army for being too tight are fitting again. I can also see it in my face. My belt is about an inch ...

keeping it together

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:19:00 -0800

I was finally able to tell our son the news. He finished mid-terms on Friday and did excellent. He had a fun weekend planned in Washington, DC. I asked him on the phone, did he want the bad news now or when he got back to school. He wanted it ...

the roller coaster continues and it is downhill

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:10:00 -0800

The good news the bone marrrow and Petscan were good. The bad news is the pathology is not what we had hoped for and worse than that it is "mixed". Meaning that it has both the bad type of lymphoma with some of the better cells in there too. This caused ...

If it rains it pours.

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:08:00 -0800

Today we met with the oncologist. Bone Marrow done at the center. Then off to the Pet Scan for nuclear testing. We were all set just waiting for the test to come back. The final pathology report was expected to be a favorable large cell non-Hodgkins that are responsive to ...