lemme esplain. no. will take too long. lemme sum up..

I will post my blog at billyscolon.blogspot.com. It will automatically be coppied to my "Notes" section on Facebook. On Facebook it will be abreviated though. To read the entire thing you will have to click the link which says "View Original Post", and it will bring you to the entire post.

So much has happened since the last time I've posted on this blog. There is a lot to cover. For now I'm just going to give a clear summary so that we can all get caught up.

At the begining of March I came into Hackensack Hospital with severe abdominal pain and vommitting. The pain and vommitting had been going on for a while. I had been in and out of the hospital 3 times in the months previous. Each time I was just givin fluid, monitored for a while and then sent home. This time the doctors wanted to spend more effort figuring out what was goiong on. After a few scans and x-rays there was nothing obvious. But then my surgeon revisited a previous cat scan and noticed some groth near my hip. He suspected it might either be an infection or may be more cancer. Plus there were some enlarged lymph nodes which were most likely cancer. He ordered a bone biopsy and it came back as positive for cancer. It's not bone cancer, simply colon cancer left over, in tissue formed around the hip bone. We decicded to go with some surgery. The best case scenario would be that the cancer was not involved with any organ or intestine and the surgeon would be able to remove it. Also he would be able to reverse the ostomy I had done last September. The worst case scenario would be that the tumors are too involoved with tissue and removal would be extremely risky to remove.

And which case would it be? hmmmmm? let's see??? Billy............cancer.....hmmmmmm??? Yup, it was the latter. The tumors are too close to the intestines and the blood supply for them. He decided to just clean up some scar tissue an close me back up.

So now I'm in the hospital recovering. Just resting up and hoping I'll be able to hold down food. Once that goal is met I'll be heading home and will begin a new chemo treatment very soon.

Physically, that is where I'm at. Emotionally and phychologically are something completely different. Stand by for that roller coaster...