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I’ll break this up since it’s long.
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Last thing: I’m slightly sympathetic because cancer is awful and it’s a whirlwind at first. She’s too dumb to figure it out, in her mind cancer=death. She won’t be able to put it in perspective or understand if/when they tell her she’s in a good spot.
My sympathy ends there, as the first thing she did was go online-she never got insurance in spite of being a death fat, and everybody reminding her when it was time, and when she calms she’ll milk this with all she has. I have no doubt this girl who flexed $1500 and refused insurance will soon be posting GoFundMes. There are a lot more deserving people, and she had many chances to protect herself. If she had insurance this would have cost about what she had in that wallet, now it’ll be 100x that. She may not deserve cancer but she does deserve financial ruin.
Somebody said they don’t remove the uterus through the vagina. They do, and not only that, will probably try to do that in Amber’s case.
Vaginal hysterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the uterus through the vagina.
Staging: first, they will send her organs and nearby (sentinel) lymph nodes to the path lab to see if cancer cells are in there. If not, it’s a good sign that the disease hasn’t spread and in somebody big like Amber, they will likely rely on that and she’s done. If they do see cells, they would want to do radiation, and maybe a PET scan. (If the nodes are negative, or they only find a cell or two, in somebody like her, they might do preventative radiation only as treatment would be hard.)
A PET is a specialized scan -a person is injected with a radioactive sugar that reacts with faster growing cancer cells and shows where cancer is-(other scans you have to know where it is.)
The problem with PET is it has a 350 lb weight limit. It’s like a CT or MRI but has double the rings. There are no open PETs. They do make them for very obese patients but they are not common. Has Amber ever has a CT or MRI before? If so that’s a good sign that the hospital deals with a lot of obese patients and may have one. Chemo would be done at a later stage which won’t be known until surgery. They probably will want to do surgery in the next couple of months, although with Amber it’s hard. They might need MRIs for planning, which may take longer, etc.
Vaginal hysterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the uterus through the vagina.
Staging: first, they will send her organs and nearby (sentinel) lymph nodes to the path lab to see if cancer cells are in there. If not, it’s a good sign that the disease hasn’t spread and in somebody big like Amber, they will likely rely on that and she’s done. If they do see cells, they would want to do radiation, and maybe a PET scan. (If the nodes are negative, or they only find a cell or two, in somebody like her, they might do preventative radiation only as treatment would be hard.)
A PET is a specialized scan -a person is injected with a radioactive sugar that reacts with faster growing cancer cells and shows where cancer is-(other scans you have to know where it is.)
The problem with PET is it has a 350 lb weight limit. It’s like a CT or MRI but has double the rings. There are no open PETs. They do make them for very obese patients but they are not common. Has Amber ever has a CT or MRI before? If so that’s a good sign that the hospital deals with a lot of obese patients and may have one. Chemo would be done at a later stage which won’t be known until surgery. They probably will want to do surgery in the next couple of months, although with Amber it’s hard. They might need MRIs for planning, which may take longer, etc.
Somebody asked if her cancer could have spread from elsewhere and landed in her uterus. It happens but it’s highly unlikely. By the time that would happen, the primary cancer would have long been discovered.
Somebody else said that pre-cancers were cancers but that is not true. The most you could call them is tumor markers. They are unusual looking cells, but there is no indication that they could grow, spread, and kill, which is what makes cancer so dangerous. Many people with pre-cancer can watch and wait and it goes away. Sometimes a cancer will grow there but there are no stats on how often. Many get it treated because they are scared and start saying it’s cancer, but it isn’t. Cancer is dangerous because it spreads. Pre-cancer does not.
The thing about being so fat is Amber already has a bunch of co-morbidities. Her bladder infections could have been bladder infections. Her pain could have been pain from fatness. It may have been disease but it may not. So docs can’t say,oh, you have a backache? Let’s rush you into a scan machine because of course her back will hurt. It’s never been more important that she get to a normal weight because once a person has cancer, even a slow-growing one, they always worry about more. Being a normal weight makes it possible to treat promptly.
I’m pressing x on Amber doing that though.
I’m pressing x on Amber doing that though.
Female cancers are cervical, uterine(endometrial), ovarian, and breast, although men can get breast cancer. Cervical and uterine cancers are slower-growing, as are some types of breast-cancer. (Although they grow so Jen’s a liar.). They usually make themselves known with symptoms -like heavy bleeding. Ovarian is different, more dangerous. It’s usually found later because it’s almost symptomless, there are no easy tests for it so it’s found later. Main treatment is surgery but it grows back often and it constantly has to be debulked, plus chemo of course.
Amber is so dumb she doesn’t know a womb is a uterus. (I said in an earlier thread she probably thinks she pees from her vagina and I’m not kidding). So it’s slightly possible that it’s cervical. I doubt it’s ovary because I’m not convinced she even understands enough anatomy to know it. She did say uterus, likely a repeat from a doctor (who wouldn’t say womb) so I’m going with that.
Amber is so dumb she doesn’t know a womb is a uterus. (I said in an earlier thread she probably thinks she pees from her vagina and I’m not kidding). So it’s slightly possible that it’s cervical. I doubt it’s ovary because I’m not convinced she even understands enough anatomy to know it. She did say uterus, likely a repeat from a doctor (who wouldn’t say womb) so I’m going with that.
Somebody should tell her to ask for every path and surgical report. Those belong to her and are helpful for learning what’s going on. She never will but keep in mind if you or loved ones get cancer. It’s so helpful to have that paperwork. They will offer her a case worker and somebody to help figure out the money. Whether she can get Medicaid now or not I don’t know. Cancer treatment can be millions of dollars if it’s bad (hers won’t be) but it’s at least a hundred thousand. A PET alone is about 7k. They have social workers to help sort those things out, so she needs to seek it out early if it’s not offered. There are also online groups than know plenty and she should find one and not rely on her followers.
Last thing: I’m slightly sympathetic because cancer is awful and it’s a whirlwind at first. She’s too dumb to figure it out, in her mind cancer=death. She won’t be able to put it in perspective or understand if/when they tell her she’s in a good spot.
My sympathy ends there, as the first thing she did was go online-she never got insurance in spite of being a death fat, and everybody reminding her when it was time, and when she calms she’ll milk this with all she has. I have no doubt this girl who flexed $1500 and refused insurance will soon be posting GoFundMes. There are a lot more deserving people, and she had many chances to protect herself. If she had insurance this would have cost about what she had in that wallet, now it’ll be 100x that. She may not deserve cancer but she does deserve financial ruin.
