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Now with Cancer!
Now with Cancer!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Multiplicity - unfinished draft from 2/28/08
By JB aka JayBee
I feel positively bursting at the seems today there is so much to write about. Should I share my oncologist appointment from yesterday, or the interesting information I received from a colleague dealing with cancer in her family? Should I write about the play "Third" that we saw at the Guthrie Theater last night, or about receiving an onslaught of handwritten cards from ten year old children in Iowa threatening me with damnation if I don't convert to Christianity. Hmmn, where to start?
My appointment with Dr. A. yesterday went really well. I went to the appointment by myself (JSP had a dentist appointment at the same time). Dr. A. made extra time for me at the end of his normally scheduled day. We discussed the interesting results of the biopsies that I had done on the lumps that were removed from my body on February 12. Dr. A. said that the biopsy report were somewhat inconclusive regarding what was gogin on, but that this much we know: of the fourteen lumps that were removed, thirteen were diseased lymph nodes that contained cancer cells. Some of these cancer cells in the lymph nodes showed signs of necrosis (cell death). This suggests that there is some immune system response to my cancer. The other lump (the largest lump) was a melanoma tumor.
My appointment with Dr. A. yesterday went really well. I went to the appointment by myself (JSP had a dentist appointment at the same time). Dr. A. made extra time for me at the end of his normally scheduled day. We discussed the interesting results of the biopsies that I had done on the lumps that were removed from my body on February 12. Dr. A. said that the biopsy report were somewhat inconclusive regarding what was gogin on, but that this much we know: of the fourteen lumps that were removed, thirteen were diseased lymph nodes that contained cancer cells. Some of these cancer cells in the lymph nodes showed signs of necrosis (cell death). This suggests that there is some immune system response to my cancer. The other lump (the largest lump) was a melanoma tumor.
Labels: Melanoma