Hi all!!

I’m being discharged from the hospital tonight after a month of being a resident, and am going into a nursing home for rehabilitation for three months. Well, that’s at least the time I have on the books to cover my stay and get better after breaking my hip, so it’s somewhere up to December I have!

I may have wrote here before of the cancer suspicion, so as soon as I can I will have a PET scan! It was also here for a few other issues that popped up and prolonged my stay, i’ll be just as glad to get out of this place as soon as possible which has been no picnic or has quality of care. One day i’ll wrote all about it! Right now I still can’t walk after a second surgery for a fractured hip, but the therapy and my care has been as it should which delayed recovery,

It’s good to get out of here!

Thats great news, Paul!!! Im so glad you are getting into another facility where you will be better taken care of. Hoping your new place will be everything you need, plus have an attentive staff who will help get you back onto your feet again.

Paul, you sure have alot going on!!! Wishing you good luck with everything!!! Always remember... we all are with you in your corner, cheering you on

I’m glad you’re getting out of hospital. You are just amazing — your persistence, knowledge and that you’re still trying to support members of this forum when you’re in hospital. Thanks so much, Paul.

Wishing you smoothing sailing.

Thank you Christine and gmcraft!

You both brought a tear to my eyes, and thank you! I’m always glad to make any contributions that are helpful, especially for newly diagnosed or anyone for that matter!

I thank you both for keeping this site running, and for people like me who can contribute once in a while.

I’m 10 years out from my original diagnosis, and hope my latest mishap is just a mishap and not cancer, and can move along and try to be helpful!

Thank you,
Paul

No, Paul.... THANK YOU!!!!! We're all in this together

Paul, you are a very special member of OCF!!! You've been an active OCF participant selflessly helping thousands of others by sharing your vast knowledge of OC. At OCF, we're all very lucky!!! I always try to think positively Theres many knowledgeable members who have a great understanding of OC plus anything/everything about the numerous different areas relating to OC. Different members have different areas of strength, together theres an abundance of info relating to OC. Even though we have many knowledgeable members who gladly pitch in to help others, I dont think of you as one of the knowledgeable members. You belong to a different group of OCF members. Over the years, I can count on one hand the very few extra special members who are overly skilled with their advanced knowledge (always learned from reputable sources) of important OC subjects/news. You my friend, are part of that very special elite group!!! Only the most knowledgeable OC patients/survivors/caregivers can come close to having such in depth knowledge about OC plus everything else relating to it. Thank you Paul for always graciously sharing what you have learned from doing years of your own independent research to learn everything you can relating to OC. I greatly appreciate every post you make as no doubt the receiving member does as well. Its not easy for you right now yet even being laid up, unable to walk you still come to the forum to share your wisdom with others. What a wonderful, shining example we all should strive to emulate. Thank you for always so generously sharing your support and knowledge.

As far as another cancer diagnosis goes, NO!!!! Thats NOT allowed!!! ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NOT HAPPENING!!! There have not been very many of us old-timers (longevity at OCF, NOT our ages) who have endured year after year of seemingly never ending cancer diagnosis, medical tests, surgeries, treatments, doctors appointments, recoveries, biopsy false alarms, and the worst of all of our fears....recurrences. There definitely are very few of us who have survived 3 or more rounds of OC along with many other terrible health conditions. You've been here for so long you must have heard all the usual phrases we share with those going thru a cancer diagnosis scare. My favorites are "dont borrow sorrow from tomorrow" (not sure of the exact wording but Im pretty sure you know the phrase Im thinking of) and "its NOT cancer til the biopsy says its cancer". . It took me until my third OC diagnosis until I finally stopped my useless worrying every time I had a lump/bump or new mouth sore. I realized worrying has never changed any test result and never will. I also finally figured out instead of my worrying and "what if" thinking which is completely unproductive and unnecessary, I need to go out and make memories with my family. I felt like the weight of the world was off my over-burdened shoulders when I woke up, stopped procrastinating, went out and actually lived the life I was putting off for a few more years. I know you must feel like you have too much time on your hands. I learned that by doing something positive and/or productive it helped make me feel better about my current situation. If you are dealing with cancer again, we're here to lean on anytime you need us. Thru thick or thin, our OCF old-timers family always sticks together, no matter what

Be well my friend!!!!
(((((HUGS)))))

Wow, so glad you are busting outta the place! I am sure that some of us here have had long stays inpatient, and depending on the facility-- sometimes the care can get Worse, it seems, the longer you are there!

Can you get a PET with contrast ordered, while at the nursing facility? Surely they will not make you wait 3 months.

Anyway PaulB, I'm with you.....And I hope there is no more cancer found.

Crystal

Well I haven't been on in a little while so I'm sorry I'm not completely up to speed on what all your going through but I do have my fingers crossed that the PET scan shows NED! Glad you're out of the hospital and I hope you continue to get comfortable at the care facility. I'm hoping the next few months fly by for you and you're headed home before you know it. Keep us posted.

So glad you're getting out. So sorry to hear you've broken your hip though, what a pain!

I love reading your support and advice, please never change. It's so helpful for us newbies.

I'm healing from a broken hip myself ... it's not cancer, just one of those things ... we suspect the bone was broken before I fell, and as far as causes, the only thing we've turned up is some vitamin deficiencies (and who knows what chemo could have done, of course). I hope yours heals soon ... two surgeries? Yikes! You've been through too many wringer already to need this one too. Once you get moving, it does get better, really. The surprise I found was some calcification in the joint (sclerosis, they said), and that's making complications ... but if that is a problem for you, it will show up on the x-rays as you heal. (I don't know what they do about it ... I don't even want to ask, sigh.) Just wanted to mention it in case you have some weird pain that nothing else will quite explain as you heal.

((hugs))

My mom broke her hip on radition day 23 of her recurrence. The things were only very, very, very slightly related. She did great with the broken hip. The people in radiation teased her that she was faking it because they'd hever had a pateint move so well after the surgery she had so quickly. That repair failed and she had a hip replacement. And none of that required a rehab stay. She also did not have a rehab stay after her major 12 hour surgery despite the doctor being worried I wouldn't be able to handler her care because it all seemed like a piece of cake after the rehab stay she'd had a year before (between cancer bouts 1 and 2) when she got pnumonia at the end of her first cancer treatment and spent 30 days in the hospital most of them heavily sedated and literally could not move her legs at all independently when she got out. 100 days later she could walk a couple of football fields and was feeling so much stronger. If she could get there from not being able to move her lower body at all, you've got this rehab thing licked, I'm sure.

Bwb,

Wow! Glad to hear your mom is doing well after breaking her hip!

Actually, I had 3 surgeries for the leg, and 3 procedures they were they were tinkering around with my lungs!

I’m in the nursing home now doing rehab, but still not waking! It’ll take longer than I like, but I’m glad I still have 78 days in rehab if it takes that long!

So far, the orthopedic surgeon said my hip is healing well and took out the staples today!

I hope your hip is doing better!

PaulB, great to hear you’re doing better. You are incredible. You’ve been thrown so many curve balls and you manage to stay positive. Good luck to getting out of rehab before the 78 days.

Thank you, gmcraft! Things are slowly moving along, My physical therapist get along, their all nice there, and he has me concentrating on walking, with assistance, on the parallel bars to help walk. With my left arm paralyzed another worker holds up my arm.

Thank you for the feedback! It helps a lot!