My life has been pretty boring unless you like riding bikes or network engineering or light brain damage. I haven’t had anything to post because the rumor mill has been very quiet. Now I have some news to share. A couple things actually:
First thing: Whatever the hell went wacky inside me back in April/May that sent my A1C through the roof and got the Ghost of Wilford Brimley moaning “diabeetus” over my shoulder cleared up over the past couple months. My blood is nice and bland again. My pancreas is apparently pancreating properly. It was good to see all the bloodwork numbers right down the middle of normal range. I will not start pouring soda and candy down my gullet, but I think I can safely freak out my PCP by occasionally dipping thin mints into potato soup and whatever.
Additional thing: Yesterday morning I had my 3 month post-treatment scan. I visit the oncology clinic and get more bloodwork tomorrow morning, but I can’t wait to post because instead of 7-10 business days the radiologist was extra-productive and I got the results already. I am happy to share that no new signs of cancer showed up anywhere and all the lesions inside me are either leftover from ablation (liver) or stable and unchanged (kidney). Nothing is obstructing anything or adhering to anything or unusual beyond expectation. My reading of it sounds like my abdomen still looks like a Chuck E Cheese after a weekend of birthday parties, but that’s what it should look like given what happened in there over the past year. Pretty good news.
Tomorrow I will get a bunch more blood tests, including another Signatera draw where they will check for any loose cancer DNA floating about in my bloodstream from any little fuckers too small to show on CT, but either way I guess I’ll be around for awhile longer.
Happy Tuesday! Happy July!
P.S. I want to be very clear I am not a doctor and this is just me faffing about in MyChart. Based on past experience though it doesn’t seem like my Oncologist is going to give me the Serious Face and Bad News. I will know for sure tomorrow.