Without leaving home, went on a visual journey through my body, guided by a Mayo oncologist. Like traffic lights, stopped at two bright red lymph nodes, signifying prostate cancer cells. Two additional drugs should help for a while. I’m grateful.
Category: Health
Trip To The Mayo
It was a PET scan, but I closed my eyes and pretended I was on a lie-flat flying somewhere good. When the machine ejected me, I was still in Rochester, MN.
Lab Draw In Paradise
Hiked, labs, Target run, late lunch in beach bar, nap. Life is good. Labs: Waited near palm trees for a blood draw to build the case to be accepted into a phase 2 clinical study. Grateful I can travel while staying on top of my prostate cancer.
Simple Fix
Until today I’ve been putting up with a sharp, intense pain in my lower thumb, assuming it was arthritis. Today a physical therapist used her hands to apply a technique called positioned myofascial release to a muscle in my thumb, and the pain has gone. I’m amazed and grateful.
Halloween Bone Scan
A radioactive injection followed by a bone scan seemed appropriate for Halloween. Glad to learn tumor is too small to be visible.
Treatment Options
Discussed different treatment options with my oncologist. I’m grateful I feel good and there are promising options.
’Flu-Shot Selfie
Took a ‘flu-shot selfie at Walgreens.
View from a Dentist Chair
Saw the light: semiannual cleaning and checkup.
Time for Gratitude
Celebrated over grilled cheese sandwiches and beer at Longfellow’s. We had been to my oncologist and agreed to resume drug therapy because my tumor is waking up: the therapy could work for years. As a student, I celebrated poor grades, good grades less so. Grateful for good healthcare.
Full-Mouth X-Ray
Had my head examined, or maybe it was just my teeth: once-every-five-year full-mouth dental x-ray.