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Nikki Wegman
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- Louisville, KY
- United States
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About a week ago on 10/6 I went in to see my Doc for my Post Op/Post PT check up. They took a few new Xrays and measured the angles my thumb can bend to now. After a few trys my Xrays came turned out well (the tech said they seem too dark because ...
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Has any one here expericed a GCT of the hand? Mine was in the first metacrparl of the left thumb, I let my tumor grow for awhile because when I started to see growth on my hand I credited it to a previous problem I had with my left wrist, not in a...
I was first diagnosed with a GCT on 2/12/2009 about a month after my 21st birthday. I had waited a very, very long time to go to see a specialist. When I was 17 I was in a vehicle accident that injured my left hand that later resulted in surgery s...
Profile Information
- How do GCTs affect you?
- GCT patient
- Location of primary tumor:
- First Metacarpal of the Left Hand (Left Thumb)
- Date of diagnosis of primary tumor:
- 2/12/2009
- Treatment of primary tumor:
- Surgery, my first resection was on2/17/2009 and my second reconstruction was on 5/20/2009
- Facility treated at for primary tumor:
- Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Specialists
- Would you recommend this facility and it's Doctors to another GCT patient?
- Yes, definately
- Recurrence? If so, where?
- No
- Date of recurrence:
- n/a
- Metastasis? If so, where?
- No
- Date of metastasis discovery:
- n/a
- Tumor free?
- Yes
- Current GCT Status:
- Indefinate
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Post Op Check Up
About a week ago on 10/6 I went in to see my Doc for my Post Op/Post PT check up. They took a few new Xrays and measured the angles my thumb can bend to now. After a few trys my Xrays came turned out well (the tech said they seem too dark because of the loss of bone density in my hand so I always have to get them redone) my doc checked them out and said everything looks great, no signs of regrowth and my bone graft fused well. At my last appointment he mentioned to bring a flash drive to the nex… Continue
Posted on October 14, 2009 at 1:22pm —
New to the group, here is my story
I was first diagnosed with a GCT on 2/12/2009 about a month after my 21st birthday. I had waited a very, very long time to go to see a specialist. When I was 17 I was in a vehicle accident that injured my left hand that later resulted in surgery so I accredited my problems to my prior surgery, I didnt think the first specialist I saw helped very much at all. Shortly after my first surgery (a few years after my accident) I became pregnant with my son. I had my son Feb 23rd of 2008. When he was ab… Continue
Posted on June 22, 2009 at 1:23pm — 1 Comment
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