My daughter was diagnosed with stage III-C, rare fallopian tube cancer.

November 5, 2008 was the day our life’s changed forever. I know, not original, but it really did. My 34 year old daughter, mother of two little ones (6 year old boy and 4 year old girl ) went into the hospital for what was supposed to be a small in/out procedure to remove two cysts from the right ovary. Five days later she walked out a cancer fighter. Who New!!! She was diagnosed with stage III-C, rare fallopian tube cancer. That was 8 months ago and she continues to fight this awful disease. She is so sick and seems to feel defeated. She is normally such a fighter. .. So to make a long story short, when they put a small camera inside her belly, they saw a whole lot going on that should not have been. She ended up with a hysterectomy, her spleen, appendix and a few lymph nodes removed, the tail of her pancreas and some kind of fatty tissue that I guess covers your stomach. After recovering at home from major surgery for 4 weeks, she started her first of six rounds of chemo on Thursday, December 4. 2008 She spent over 7 hours hooked-up to an IV. She was on Taxol Carboplatin and Avastin. She lost her hair; it started 2 weeks after the first chemo treatment….In and out of the hospital many times …But all was tolerable until …she could not eat anything …3 weeks she was complaining about it to the doctors and answer was it is possible side effect from chemo or maybe some score tissue from first surgery or something was twisted in there.
May 20, 2009 she went in for a surgery to fix a problem with a “kink or scar tissue” as doctors have told us, that turned out to be over on 6 hours surgery and it was not just a “kink or scar tissue” it turned out to be metastatic cancer that attacked her small intestine…they have removed all of her small intestine…but there is still more cancer left on her large intestine. She is on ostomy and tubes in her arm for the IV nutrient and most of her medication… On Friday, May 29, 2009 she was admitted again to the Hospital with a low back and pelvic pain, slightly higher fever and elevated WBC. After CT-scan she was told that fluid was found in her abdominal and that could be from on infection. She was treated with IV-antibiotics and her pain medications were increased. I know she is still recovering from lest surgery and she needed more rest…
Thursday, June 11, 2009 her doctor recommended she try a chemo drug called Doxil. It's usually the next line of defense when the carboplatin and taxol don't work. My daughter feels like she can't sit, wait and not do anything. So she agreed to the Doxil. They immediately set her up for the first round same day. Contrary to what most would believe given this is a second line of defense, this was going to be much milder chemo drug with almost no side effects. (That was not fact with my daughter, she is so sick and all possible side effect are there) Treatments are shorter, running about 2 hours in length, and are only given once every 4 weeks. She has her next treatment on July 9. After 3 rounds of chemo treatment, she will have a PET scan to see if any progress is being made and we'll go from there….
I hope she will be getting the right treatment and get her strength back, and she will once again, enjoy a healthy, happy life…. emotionally … She needs to get ready and determined to kick cancer’s ass. I trust she will succeed... she has cancer but cancer doesn't have her. It’s the power of positive healing

Wish YOU ALL the ladies on this site with this horrible disease only the best outcome, my prayers are with you!!!

Thank you, worried mom, Rada