Crazy swollen everything

Just an update..
I have gained a whopping 8 pounds in just 5 days. My little body is not so little anymore. I am still taking on water, they don't know why. My new eccho I just had on Thurs. shows a bit more water, though its hard to tell exactly how much. My legs are so swollen I can barely walk and they have a slight burn. I am so pissed off!! I have been done w/ chemo for over two weeks now and I just want to start feeling better.

heather has chosen to wait until monday because she signed up for a class 3 months ago.
dear heather, the class can wait, you shouldn't.  get thee to a doctor!

Dear Heather,

Heather,
I hope you went back to the hospital..have you revisited having the fluid aspirated?  I know it doesn't sound like fun, but thousands of people have that done and get relief.

Heather,,

Heather,

Heather, please keep us posted on how you make out!  Ladies, thank you for all your wonderful encouragement to Heather at this time.

Heather, you are worth it, never doubt that, don't look to those that steal your value from you, go forward girl and know nothing is too small to pay attention to.

You are special, may God lead others to you that will stand in the gap and support you;  do not be afraid to ask!  You just might be surprised to see who is in the wings!

Bless you Heather,

Marlene from Canada

from heather:

Okay. For all you mom's out there. I am back in room 705, at Swedish. I got in touch with my Onc and he had me check myself into the ER. He said that the cardiologist and the on-call Onc would meet me here. One of the messages of this post is that miscommunication happens, and you must be on your tippee toes to be your own advocate, constantly. Because ER doc wanted to give me, himself, alone the diuretic..Which 4 doc's have been debating for an entire week. The reason being is this..Hold on it gets deep...
Okay. Here's the deal. There are two water problems in my body right now and they are related. One being that my whole body is swollen with fluid. The way a body typically gets rid of this fluid is that it gets into your blood vessels and gets pumped through, by your heart, and eventually your kidneys piss it out. Here comes the second water problem. Which is there is a pocket of water around my hear that is squeezing it. Which makes my heart beat as fast as it would if I was running. Which is insane. So..its working hard enough doing its thing, (very healthfully i will ad) but it can't handle anything more. Like getting rid of my the water in my body. Which has caused a literal backup in my body. Its a vicious cycle.
So the problem with diuretics is two things. THe first thing is that it works on the first fluid problem, the fluid in my legs and everywhere else. Not the fluid around my heart in lungs, which by the way is worse now than last week, says the x-rays and another eccho tonight. The second problem with diuretics is that it lowers the amount of water in my vessels which means that squeezing around my heart would be allowed to squeeze my heart even more. Which would cause low blood pressure. And this would be dangerous.
So...they have now decided to do the heart tap, so that hopefully the vicious back-up problem can be fixed. I of coarse have feelings about this. But that is tomorrow or the next day.

My friend Tamara came and met me at the ER because I was very scared and sad and scared some more. I will write more later. I don't know how this is all going to work out. I am sure I won't die from getting my heart punctured. But just in case, I want to let those of you that know me, know that I love you all. And I have lived a wonder-filled life. And I do not regret anything. I have LIVED! I am just saying this, not to be melodramatic, but because often people hide and don't share how they really feel. So there you go!

Heather (and friends),

Sweetie,