cpap & hospitals

I wanted to give an update here about the breast cancer surgery. This time, in the recovery room, the nurse sat by my side the entire time, checking the monitors and talking to me to see how awake I was. It was a good experience and I did not need my bi-pap because I was wide awake, for one thing, and because the nurse made sure I was breathing properly and had enough oxygen. I believe she would have gotten the RT there if necessary.

As for the cancer, the pathology report was good. The cancer was not invasive - stayed just in the duct -, the 3 sentinel lymph nodes that were checked were clear, and the margins were sufficient. No other cancer was shown on the MRI. The mass was small, and together I think that makes it stage 0, and I am a lucky woman.

I still have to see the oncology folks, and I will ask about the CoQ10.

Catnapper - Joanie

What an encouraging result! I'm very glad to read it. Thank you for reporting your experience, and your results.

O.

Catnapper wrote:I still have to see the oncology folks, and I will ask about the CoQ10.

Joanie,

I'm very relieved to hear your path reports -- and the report that this hospital experience was better.

Unless your oncology people are really on top of alternative medicine, the probability is that they won't have heard of CoQ10 and cancer. Or they will discount it.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_informatio ... 35F1D7BB07

is the National Cancer Institute's comments. They don't, however, provide links to the studies they are dismissing.

http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-022h.shtml

is part of an article delineating both conventional and alternative treatments. I will note that the LEF site does sell some of the products it mentions; I've never used any of their products, preferring to find locally available quality products. (I'm very good at ignoring advertising on websites.) But I find many of their articles to be of interest.

If you are interested, I'll try to find some of the other sites I found useful in preparation for my own cancer surgery, although mine was endometrial, and not breast cancer.

Good thoughts and prayers coming your way...glad things are going so well at this point.
mar

RE: Blood Pressure UP In recovery, after my second op my B.P. was up too high, the anesthesiologist was sent for and after a short time decided to administer something to bring it down. I had regular type anesthesia, not spinal - always worry how good they are for that! as regard cpap after ops in the "recovery area", by the time you come round enough to realize you are not wearing it it's often too late to be needed as, in my case anyway, I don't usually drift off again by then.

RE: Hospital Staff Just Too Busy posting. I happen to regard my cpap therapy as critical care and am sorry that the nursing staff are just too busy and unable, or unwilling, to understand O.S.A. enough to realize. I was under the misapprehension that they were there to care for us and our well being. I do know, however, that in " the recovery area" immediately after my operation on the above occasion that they had enough spare time to all run to the far end of the ward, AND stay there, whilst the person in the next bed to me (4 - 4 1/2ft) away was being Ex-rayed (portable unit)from different angles, and had left with no regard to the fact that I was too close. Needless to say my repeated requests to be moved addressed to the operator of said machine were ignored - until finally he told me he was too busy, so I guess you MUST be right. I am still waiting for some inane reply from the hospital regarding that part.
I am sure there are many caring staff members in hospitals everywhere, and they must they get frustrated too. It's not an easy job.