Scheduled for surgery 4

April 15...

Last check ups in a nut shell...more cuts!!!

02/23/2010 - Chest CT/MRI. Early...Chest CT is cake, almost fall asleep in the MRI...
Wait while they look the scans over, get to chat with them, mention some swelling I noticed after I was given the check up schedule... Get felt up a lot, then told to schedule a PET...

03/05/2010 - PET...Early. way too early for a Foley catheter, not to suggest that there is ever a good time, sheesh. Later they inject me with a radioactive sugar and let that disperse throughout my body, walk me to the PET machine, lay there for around an hour as that scan runs... get the catheter out; go try to make the most of a nice weekend in Seattle!

03/09/10 - time to get results, if you can even call it that... Something there, glows pretty bright on the PET, but not as bright as they'd expect... Begin, again, the process of pre-op quesitons and scheduling. The only thing definative at this time is that I'm going in for surgery, on some Thursday in the future, and getting the thing removed and biopsied.

See buddy Allan, see IMAX 3D of 'Alice in Wonderland,' go to Red Mill after being thwarted on our attempt for grass fed burgers, then safely navigate rush hour traffic and contemplate next steps as I drive back home. Powerball ticket bought...

More about the Insurance thing...

Apparently some kind of resolution is coming about on the contracts between my insurer and UW et al. Good, I guess, but the whole thing leaves me disappointed...

Tripping to Seattle

Next check up is in Seattle 2/23/10. Kind of looking forward to it, kind of not. It's going to be good to get up to Seattle, see a friend or two, seafood(fresh), hang out at the clinic, you know, good times!!

I don't REALLY mind it, everyone there has been super and I can't say enough good about them, so they are just great. Th only thing that really bugs me about it is losing time to get up there.

I am looking forward to maybe wowing them a bit with how active I've been...Admittedly not as active as I'd like, but I'm playing Ulty again(pretty regularly), almost doing Yoga regularly, Soccer regularly, running (still not regularly), some weight work irregularly. So, Physically I feel pretty decent, but I do notice my respiration is not quite up to par; I'm convinced that's because I'm not running as regularly as before.

The Insurance forecast

doesn't really get any better, but currently I get some sort of reprieve since my insurer is still working with the UW, or the other way around. So I'm in some kind of gray area until the end of the month, which isn't so far anyhow...

Typical....

Just typical... Odd, how, for the 100th post here, a post that might seem to be a landmark of sorts, I received notification today that UW and, by association, SCCA will no longer be taking part in my insurance's network. yay.

Check up 10/22

Just a cursory check up with the Radiation oncologist. Nothing of real interest. She suggested that I'm pretty lucky because of a variety of things including a few I haven't heard before. Otherwise, I think it was the quickest check I've had in all this. Need to get a chest CT soon, have to go to Seattle or that, then an MRI 3 months later... and more further out.