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
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