Bellamore's Journey:

Went to my holistic doctor because I was just feeling "off". He did a ton of blood work and that's when it showed up. Then he handed me over to the western doctors. Lots of tests all confirming a large mass in liver. Hometown oncologist said it was beyond his abilities. Then I went to Memorial Sloan Kettering. They diagnosed Cholangiocarcinoma, inoperable, Stage 4. Because of my deep seated belief that everything happens for a reason, I never asked "why me?" Cancer sucks and I hate it; but it's my life journey.

the implant went without a hitch. I spent 6 days in the hospital and 3 months recovering from the surgery. But the cancer has matastized and now I am getting system chemo as well as the pump.

So far so good. No side effects when only on the pump and very mild side effect with the systemic.

I was just starting to get back into shape from a previous injury. I don't feel I am ready to go back to the gym or do much in the way of exercising. I hate having lost my waistline because of pump and swollen liver.

My latest scan shows that I have developed three new tumors. They look like little hens clustered around the mother tumore. Sigh!!!! I have a Hepatic Artery Infusion Pump that we haven't been using while things were stable. We're pulling out the big guns nows. I know liver cancer never really goes away I was just hopping that one big "stable" tunmor would all I would have to deal with. I've been blessed, but I think this is a heads up to start getting ready for the end. And exactly where is it that you begin

I was on both the chemo pump and systemic at the same time. There came a week when I just bent over with the pain. No one could find the cause. Wasn't even sure it was cancer related. My entire diaphram was bloated and I was bent over literally. It's been two week. Treated it with Celebrex of all things.

I feel this is just the beginning of a long process. It's not an uncommon surgery with this type of cancer, but it's not a sure thing either. Usually takes multiply attempts to get the stent placed totally internally