Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Introduction (8-10-10)

Welcome to my new blog.

I am creating it so that friends and family can follow the medical journey that I am reluctantly embarking on.   My plan is to update it regularly, and to go back and review a bit so that everyone can see a bit about how I got here. 

As hard as it is to wrap my mind around, it seems I have cancer.  We (my doctors and I) discovered this during  surgery to remove what we thought was a benign tumor in my parotid gland five long days ago.  As of today, I am still waiting to read the final pathology report this coming Friday.   (For those of you, who, like me a few short months ago, have no idea what a parotid gland is - it is a saliva gland located pretty much in front of and slightly below your ear) 

The docs are recommending radiation therapy, but I don't know all the details about that yet.

I guess that is the general background. Wish me luck on this journey - I hope you never join me!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Ms Lisa! I just wanted to say that I love you an you have tons of family in on that with me an a huge support group=) Remember us Moore Girls are STRONG we can do an over come anything. And also if you need anything even someone to bother you for awhile just give me a ring an I'll be down to bother you ;)

love always Miranda xoxoxo

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