Frick Cancer
This made me cry today (and I shared with a few other people and made them cry). Not that I want everyone to cry, but I want everyone to meet this super awesome guy. I say this, and I have actually never met him in person. That is how awesome he is, he makes waves that he doesn’t even (maybe?) truly know about. Dov is a cancer-lebrity (yes, I just made that one up) here in Utah. He is known for his friendly smile and his...
YOLO! (Yes, I Really Just Said That)
My previous post about ups and downs has really been my existence the last bit. You could call me a liar if I said I have been 100% all around happy-go-lucky-handy-dandy-everything-is-fine. I started to let myself get down. Probably more down than I should have. I am a type-A personality planner-type. I don’t like uncertainty, uncertainty drags me down. I hate to even admit that I have been down, I want to pretend like I am the...
Put on a Happy Face
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of ups and downs. More ups than downs. After spending a couple of weeks in January freaked out that I truly had metastatic breast cancer in my lungs, we realized your body can’t handle that much anxiety. It just can’t, and it isn’t fair to do that to it. Stress and anxiety are a horrible thing. I considered getting a second opinion. Digging through the world of medicine...
No News is Good News
All I can say is no news is better than official news at this point. Oh, and my husband is amazing. Two of the nodules had some uptake in the PET-CT, but not enough to really be obvious enough to say they are cancer. The lab noted that they are “highly suspicious” for neoplastic disease (cancer), but granulomatous could be a possibility. So there is still a possibility that I am fine. My oncologist explained that this is...
Glowingsss
After the call from my Pulmonologist that he and my Oncologist had decided I needed at PET CT, I worked every avenue to try to fit the scan in before I went on vacation (may sound silly, but a few days away to process either response while I was away sounded good to me). Unfortunately, PET-CT scans aren’t inexpensive, and the insurance companies take a few days to mull that one over. I was at least able to schedule my...