The results from my upper endoscopy and colonoscopy finally arrived last week, and showed no problems anywhere, so that’s some very good news.  This whole process seems to have taken far too long — I finally have the “all clear” from my August PET scan that showed questionable results, and now it’s almost time for [...]

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Back on August 22 I posted a “3-month health update” blog entry, explaining that I had just had my follow-up PET scan. Especially clever readers may have noticed that I never posted the results of that scan. The earliest oncologist appointment I could get was about 3 weeks after the scan, on September 12. When [...]

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This morning at 7:30 I had my 3-month follow-up PET scan in Fairfax. I’ll be getting scans every 3 months for a while, then every 6 months, every year, and eventually (I hope) will stop altogether. My oncologist appointment isn’t for another three weeks (getting an appointment with any specialist in Northern Virginia is so [...]

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Got my port removed yesterday — woo hoo! Have a bunch of stitches and a big nasty tender bruise where it used to be, but it’s a small price to pay to be rid of it. Since there’s not much more to say about it than that, instead here’s a recent photo of our front [...]

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Had my Oncologist appointment today and got my PET scan results back: NERD. I’m used to being called that, but in this case it apparently means “No Evidence of Residual Disease“, which obviously was a huge relief! The more detailed explanation says “Hypermetabolic activity previously seen in the region of the terminal ileum is no [...]

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