Hello 3rd Trimester

Hello. Today marks 6 months since Doctor Chad found a tumor up my butthole.

As a present from the universe, I got my CT results from Wednesday. No doctors or medical professionals have looked at them yet, but modern medicine means I get access to the report. Sometimes this is a cruel joke, sometimes it’s super interesting.

From my amateur reading of everything, I continue to be Going Through Some Things™ but the news isn’t anything scary when I compare it to the past CT results.

1) No new lesions noted anywhere.

2) The write up of my liver reads like a doctor’s polite way of saying “holy shit what truck hit this organ?” but again, nothing along the lines of “24 new lesions noted in segment 6” or anything like that.

3) My spleen is enlarged. I always wanted a big organ. Call me a Size Spleen.

4) This radiologist says my Kidney tumor has grown at 1.4cm, but since August it has been listed as anywhere from 9mm to 1.5cm so I am taking that with a grain of salt.

5) But only one grain because this radiologist is also making note of a 4cm aneurysm in my ascending aorta and so let’s not boost my blood pressure.

I am not saying this is nothing, but I also don’t think it’s a new thing as a CT scan back in October notes my aorta as “3.8cm in diameter” which is enlarged for sure and needs monitoring/fixing. I think different docs use different words for the same thing and I got a dramatic MD this week.

That’s that. I have clinic on Wednesday to review with the pros and unless I get a call from someone saying “head to the ER” I am just going to keep on keeping on and be thankful there’s no immediate recurrence of new cancer.

Only 4 more chemo infusions to go!

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