Friday, May 10, 2013

Who knew so much was involved....

Day 2:
Today I went to work and it was business as usual. Of course everyone wanted to know the plan and wanted to look at the pictures ( I work with a bunch of freaks, lol). I meant to post the pictures but I forgot to take a picture of the pictures with my phone and I left them at work :(  Went to meet Dr. Singh today, she is really cool, kinda goofy. She is super smart and wants to make sure you know everything that is going on. In fact, she wants you to know so much, I found myself zoning out and had to refocus. It's moments like that that I wish I had a video recorder in my head so people can see what goes on. So, she did her exam, learned everything about me. Apparently she can't really know what to do til the CT results come in on Monday and she already told me she is going to call Dr. Bliznak (JB Jr) about 15 minutes into my procedure to see what's going on so she can figure out my treatment. I learned more about radiation therapy (XRT) than I ever wanted to know, EVER. There is tons of math involved (hint to the title of today's blog). So, Here is my schedule on Monday: 8am be at Hendrick Imaging Center (formally Abilene Imaging Center) for my CT scan at 9 am. They are only doing an abdomen/ pelvis because insurance wont pay for a chest CT (WTF). Then at 10:30 I have my appt with Dr. Vega to meet him as "a patient". I LOVE Dr. Vega! We worked together on the floor and his wife has an art studio near Ralph and DeeDee Z. I decided that if Dr. Vega didn't take me as a patient I would burn that bitch to the ground, luckily I can save my matches for the bathroom candles. ;) . I'm going to try to go to work after that and then on Monday afternoon I go for my XRT simulation. I think what is going to happen (once again I was zoning out) is that she will do another CT type thing to see where the cancer is in relation to the rest of my organs so she can safely give me my radiation. Connie the radiology tech that does this part will give me my XRT tattoo, she said it will be a small dot on top of my crack, I'm excited, I'm finally getting a tramp stamp, lol. Let me tell you though, the radiation people are just as crazy as I am so I'm going to have a lot of fun. ALOT of dirty jokes happened today, enough to almost make me blush. Oh, I also asked Dr. S about a mammogram but she said that is completely unrelated, I'm not so sure so I'll just ask Dr. Kapu for one, she won't care. What else happened today....Oh my pathology came it: When he did the biopsy he biopsied the tumor and another area that he thought was benign just to be on the safe side. The benign one is definitely benign. The tumor is well differiented which means it's low grade, which means, had this been caught sooner it might have just been a high risk lesion. That's about it. I'm going to fill out some paperwork so when I leave to go to treatments or doctor's appointments the hospital will still pay me, that's always a plus. If anyone has any questions feel free to just comment and I'll try to remember to answer in the blog after that.  I guess that's it. I'll post pics of my hair do tomorrow. Yall might regret asking for a blog because I'm long winded and at this moment quite bored...

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