We met in-person with Dr Norman to look at the slides from the PET scan that pointed out the neck lymph nodes. He was able to flip through the images to rotate my body lengthwise, giving us a view of the neck. It was really neat to see.
He warned us that the lymph node may [...]
Ok, that was really cool.
We drove to the Group Health Bellevue Medical Center nice and early; we didn’t want to risk missing the appointment for this test, since it seemed so tough to get scheduled.
Apparently the street address for the facility is so new that online mapping services provide a route that is completely wrong, [...]
Today I went in for my originally scheduled CAT scan; this time they scanned above and below where I was scanned a week ago. They want to reduce the amount of extra radiation that hits my body.
I had to drink two big canisters of a “berry” flavored Barium smoothie as a contrast agent.
Also, using paper [...]
I went in for my bone marrow biopsy today during lunchtime. First Dr Norman used a local anesthetic to dull all of the nerves that he could.
Then there was a bunch of stuff that would sound gruesome if I wrote it out; he took a little bit of bone marrow, a little bit of bone, [...]
Today we met with our Hematologist/Oncologist to get a preliminary evaluation of my situation. He checked all of my easily externally examinable lymph nodes, and didn’t find anything odd. I brought the blood test results, CAT scan images, and everything else I’ve got.
After looking at everything for a little while, he offered his current 80% [...]
Just about a week ago I started to have the feeling of being “over full” pretty much all the time. At first I chalked it up to some sort of indigestion, and assumed it would pass.
It did not.
Today I got a massage, and when the masseuse pressed down on my back I could feel something [...]