It is FINE. Nothing to worry about and only to ponder. I am back on "WATCH". I have three old sites in my lungs that apparently look "plumper". Okay, stay with me.....this is in the beauty of the art of survival.
Fact: Three tiny old spots look "plumper".
Fact: I have a different Radiologist reading my scan. (I ask every time I get one.)
Fact: I have been on WATCH before and it has meant squat every time.
Fact: There is a level of error here because we can only do a CT scan. Remember, PET scans are reduced to 3 in a lifetime. I have had 24. I am a little over, y'think?!?!?!
Fact: If I breathe different in the scan, I can have different results. What do ya think the chances of that happening are?!?!?!?!?!
Do I like being on WATCH? No. I also learned that I was having fluid back up into my stomach from my liver. Okay...okay...I need to do my Milk Thistle, my exercising (My Health App looks PATHETIC!) , and stop eating bread and eggs fried in bacon grease. GOTCHA! Summer is bad. I am awful in the summer. Need school to start so I have a schedule and stop eating bacon!
So, Hank gave me two choices: 1. Run around and freak out and get a PET - which would be hard with insurance. 2. Have another CT in 8 weeks. Number two PLEASE! I have been down this road before. When I was looking at my scan while waiting for Hank, I came up with I have no cancer, but I am pretty sure I have scoliosis. Clearly, not a doctor, but I am pretty sure that was a curved spine. Anyway, since I was only eight weeks from a scan, I asked if I could forgo and try a different blood thinner than my shots twice a day. OMG! He agreed and said, "Okay, take an aspirin everyday and then we will see what the scan says." I practically fell over (hard to do on a table), because I have been taking two shots for six years and now I am on a aspirin. I have paid $4000 a year for those shots and now I can try pennies a day on an aspirin?!??!?!??! It is like a pay raise - BRING ON WATCH! The good is balanced by the bad and the ugly is balanced by the beautiful color of money!!!!!!!!
Next scan October 2nd.
Happy Sunday, Ang
Sunday, August 16, 2015
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