Deb, Remy , Denise and everyone, thank you for the well wishes, I am feeling pretty good , not looking forward to radiation , starts next Wednesday, I have to do 33 treatments ... keep me in your thoughts and prayers that they do go by fast and I hope the fatigue associated with it won't keep me from my garden ;-) Denise, I have a dr appt Friday in DC, go figure ... but I hope I can do something in the yard if I get home before the warm day ends ... Iris PS Georgetown University Hospital is a wonderful hospital ! the doctors , nurses and everyone else who has taken care of me there are top notch ! Best care I have ever had !

For those following that have not seen her new post; link is below. Posted by emeraldisle624 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 11, 13 at 18:34 Hi everyone, I know I haven't posted much lately but I am here at least once a week seeing what you are all up to. I feel like I have been wishing the days away, trying to keep my mind busy and letting my body and medicine do it's thing. It's been a long 7 months since the endometrial cancer was first diagnosed. I had my 3rd and final d&c last week at MGH in Boston. Everything about the procedure went like clockwork, unlike the last time. I was the FIRST patient allowed into pre-op in what seemed like hundreds that showed up at 5:30am. The lobby at MGH was seriously like a bus terminal, never seen anything like it. I wasn't the first one to show up nor was I the first one to see the people in the surgery check-in lobby but somehow I got to be the first sent down to the nurses in pre-op and get a room/prepped for surgery (everyone else had been told to take a seat and they'd be called soon). Then I was the first one wheeled to surgery and then the first one discharged! I swear God was holding my hand and making things as easy for me as possible, I had an aura-type feeling about me all day. If it was just my imagination, it's ok I'll take it! I never saw or talked to my doctor, I think it was because everything was on schedule (or maybe even a bit early as my husband got the call at 8:30am that I was on my way to recovery) and they had me knocked out when she arrived. Breezed through recovery, out in record time just to go home and wait 7-10 days for the results. I had such anxiety leading up the surgery that my whole body hurt. I swear I hurt even more in this past week waiting, like I tensed up while sleeping or something. I didn't feel too stressed during the day while awake as I have been pretty good at going with the flow and trying to put my trust in having everything work out the way it's destined to. Since tomorrow is day "7" of the 7-10 days I was going to email the nurse and ask if any results were available yet. She knows I am anxious and that I would be waiting every last minute. Depending on the results, I'd either be scheduling an appointment with the fertility specialist or to have my inevitable hysterectomy. I got a call this afternoon that said "blocked" on my cell phone. My stomach dropped as I knew who it was going to be, the doctor or the nurse with my results. I just wanted to update you all that I will be calling my FERTILITY SPECIALIST to make an appointment to get in there as soon as I can for the next step. All of the pathology came back with no malignancy found! I even had her email me a copy of the report because I was so afraid that she called the wrong person and was giving me someone else's information! I have it in black and white, NO MALIGNANCY FOUND, in 2 different places next to my name! I of course couldn't stop crying and I was waiting for my husband to get home. He got home and the dog ran outside with him. He's getting the mail, chasing the dog, all these things while I am just patiently waiting for him to come in. And I told him the doctor's office called and quickly went to add that the cancer was gone, I am to stop my meds and get in touch with the fertility doctor tomorrow. I felt like I was dreaming. I thanked God so much for answering all the prayers that were said for me and for giving me this opportunity. I still have a long road ahead of me and there are absolutely no guarantees of anything. But I am going to try my hardest to make our dreams come true. I am so very thankful and humbled by everyone in my life (online and in person) who have reached out to me and helped me more than they will ever know. Please continue to keep me in your prayers, I hope there is a miracle in the making. I am on a short timeline and I should have a better idea after seeing the fertility doctor again soon. (I think the meds have to be out of my system 30 days but I don't recall exactly.) Sorry for the long post, I didn't want to leave a word out in case this and my other posts ever help someone else. I hope you are all doing well and please know I think of you all often. Your prayers and healing messages changed my life and today is living proof of that. I am by no means cured of cancer, in case anyone just diagnosed finds this thread by googling or whatever. The only thing that happened is the medicine counteracted the hormones and, in my fancy medical terms, chased the cancer cells down and ate them. So, slowly but surely, since I am no longer taking the hormones, the cancer will slowly grow back and there is no way to know how fast or slow that could happen which is why time is of the essence to get pregnant now. When/if I get pregnant, my body will naturally make huge doses of that missing hormone and actually protect me from the cancer during pregnancy. I will have to have a hysterectomy within a few months or after pregnancy no matter what due to the cancer risk. I can't grasp how remarkable our bodies are. Thank you again. emeraldisle624 Here is a link that might be useful: Just a quick update!

There is a lot of bantering on the RE forums about the best way to protect yourself, and it's quite interesting but IMHO, not very realistic. For many, they believe the answer is carrying a gun (legally, etc) but it's not like you're going to be holding your loaded weapon in your hand while you walk through someone else's house. If it's in your handbag or on your body, I just think it's highly unlikely that you're going to be able to get it out in time to protect yourself against an assailant in a house. Think about how you show a house - narrow hallways, chokepoints at doorways, stairwells, basements. (And as a seller, don't even think about sending strange buyer into my house unaccompanied!) It really wouldn't be too difficult to look away for a moment to find a light switch or look down at a step and WHACK! - you're down, arms held behind you, or in a chokehold and your gun is where? Your keys with emergency alarm? (not that anybody pays attention to a car alarm going off) Your emergency button on that cell phone app? Can you reach your Cuff or Artemis (jewelry with emergency buttons)? Is anybody going to find you in time using any of those alert services? I strongly believe, although it's more paranoid than I care to normally live my life, that the best precautions are taken in advance. I've decided that a buyer who won't take the time to meet me in my office or in a public spot first, and let me copy their ID doesn't get my time to see a house. (Not the best example, but just to make the point.) I don't think we know what Ms. Carter did or didn't do, but we will all learn a lesson from her tragedy.

I thought that I posted this update last night. Roman is home. His iron level had risen by the time they got him to the hospital. It was up to 6. They sent him home with several vials of iron. He will go back to the hospital on Friday to see several specialists. Please keep him in your prayers.