Dawna, just wanted to let you know I'm also a person with Islet cell cancer and I have been going to M.D. Anderson in Houston,Texas I live about 4 hours from there and it was so good to know that there was a good Dr. close by for me to go see and he is giving me a shot a month of Sanostatin depotLA to slow the growth of the tumor down so I could lose 50 lbs. before surgery for they will do Whipple surgery but I was told that I could live a while longer because its a slow growing tumor so I hope they are right in that and I do hope you are o.k. and I don't understand why they did sugery and didn't do anything. that would be upsetting to me.
My surgery is to last about 12 hours and thats the reason they want me in top shape and I'm working on it because I had gained weight and felt so big and that was one of the things I noticed the most and it affects my insulin and it has been going up since.still working on my weight and i'll get it off soon.