I have Cancer (Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma). It's incurable, all I can do is manage it and keep its ugly head from rearing up. I'm at least 6 years past my expiration date and have done it without Chemo.
I didn't give an update on my final visit to MISTI. (Click here for MSTI website) December 16th I met with Dr. Norm Zuckerman at MSTI. After everything was said and done, I got the all clear, with a "I would like to keep an eye on you...
CAT Scan machine, you have to fit in that little hole.
Once you're diagnosed with cancer everything becomes very serious, which goes against pretty much everything I am. While Dr. Sawyer was having the mandatory consultation, he looked and me and said, "I know what you're going to say, but you really should consider seeing a medical oncologist about chemo...
(Sunset from my front porch)
After the operations I was in kind of a limbo state waiting for results. I remember Dr. Burr saying to his blushing assistant, "send those to Cole." Little did I know Dr. Cole would become an important part of my life and a buddy...
I love having the chance to befuddle someone, especially doctors. Having tumors and not having Cancer anywhere else, doesn't happen very often. But "doesn't happen very often" tends to be my life.
Now we have a problem, the doctors still want me to do Chemo and I don't, at all...