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Dave I agree that it's important to keep a good thought. What is amazing to me, and something I learned after I was diagnosed with colon cancer, is how rewarding and satisfying the smallest things can be; watching your plants flourish, (Mine are three grapefruit trees I managed to grow from seed, which will probably never bear fruit but like me, are growing despite their strange environment) cooking a simple meal, (I always thought it had to be an elaborate, multi-course meal or it didn't count) and just sitting on the porch with my morning coffee and listening to the birds. ( I used to cuss those suckers for waking me up too early!)
Whatever happens next, you have triumphed in Spirit. I hope you have a long time to ponder how important that is, since not everyone gets there. Blessings.
davidals, thank you for posting here and sharing your story. So inspiring! Yes, cancer does change our perspective a bit, doesn't it? I was thrilled to recently wait in line at WalMart, to pick up Christmas gifts. A year ago that would have been frustrating, but this year, the joy of standing for so long with no fatigue, and the happiness in knowing I could chose gifts for family, and feel well enough to see them at Christmas...it was a great feeling, a great moment.
Well boys and girls, here's that moment that we all hope to avoid. I have another lump. I'm seeing the oncologist in twelve days (not that I'm counting you understand) and hopefully he'll tell me that it's nothing.
Charley, I'm hoping and praying it is nothing. A very boring, benign cyst. A crazy upside-down ingrown hair. An alien fetus. Anything but a recurrence or new primary! Ugh, and having to wait 12 days...do you think they will be able to tell that day, or will you have to wait for tests to get scheduled, etc.?
Thanks so much. A very boring, benign cyst, a boil, a crazy upside-down ingrown hair ... all acceptable. An alien fetus? Aside from the explaining, I'd have to do, no thanks. I LOVE your sense of humor! That still have to be the most important attribute of getting through life in general, and specifically is getting through the adventure of cancer.
I'm not sure what will happen when he feels this thing. It could be that he knows right away that it's something that isn't a problem, or has to start a round of tests. I know whatever it is doesn't belong there, at least not in the size that it is. If it's a swollen lymph node, then I have to wonder what that means here in Lymphoma world.
There are 5 million completely benign reasons that a lymph node would swell. Post lymphoma, it's a little cruel joke that our lymph nodes in all of their scarred glory tend to swell up much easier than normal. I hope it's a boring cyst, a less boring alien fetus, or a swollen lymph node from a cut you didn't notice or your immune system doing it's job and killing the crap out of the flu that's going around.
There are 5 million completely benign reasons that a lymph node would swell. Post lymphoma, it's a little cruel joke that our lymph nodes in all of their scarred glory tend to swell up much easier than normal. I hope it's a boring cyst, a less boring alien fetus, or a swollen lymph node from a cut you didn't notice or your immune system doing it's job and killing the crap out of the flu that's going around.
Thanks so much. (Boy that alien fetus sure does get around doesn't it )
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Charley, I'm hoping and praying it is nothing. A very boring, benign cyst. A crazy upside-down ingrown hair. An alien fetus. Anything but a recurrence or new primary! Ugh, and having to wait 12 days...do you think they will be able to tell that day, or will you have to wait for tests to get scheduled, etc.?
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