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Current mood:  chipper Category: Life
Far too often when we are asked a simple question, "how are you", we simply respond by saying "I'm fine" or "I'm doing good." Yesterday I had an appointment at the cancer center to get set up and begin radiation treatments for throat cancer. An unusual occurrence happened at this appointment, one could even say it was a pleasant surprise. I know many of you are wondering how one could go to a cancer center for treatment and be pleasantly surprised, if yesterday had not happened I'd wonder the same thing myself. To my dismay it is possible to go to a cancer treatment center and a pleasantly surprised. Here is how it happens, you go into the doctors to discuss treatment options and get the facts about such treatments so you know side effects, long term and short term things like that. The doctor has a strange look on his face you know the kind of look you'd get if you went to gynecologist for an ear ache. As the doctor sits down he says "I took a look at your biopsy slide and I have some questions about it, I have sent it off to another pathologist for review I want to wait on my colleagues report before we begin treatment because I don't think that you do have cancer". OK now I'm confused I was just diagnosed in December with having cancer of the vocal cords. I've had to deal with months of taking tests, biopsies, endoscopes and waiting weeks and weeks for results of all of those to get told I have cancer and we'll have to endure six weeks of radiation treatments every day only to be told at literally the very last minute that was all a mistake. I suppose that this point I could have overslept and it could all be a dream but no this is in fact reality.
Now I know this is all good news and believe me I am happy about yet part of me is still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Of course it is possible that what they found that they thought was cancer could one day develop into cancer but for the moment no radiation treatments are necessary and I can pretty much get away with just having a look at every couple of months. Maybe someday down the road the other shoe will drop but for now I think I'll just rejoice in the fact that I don't have to endure radiation treatments.
12:00 AM
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