Again my blogging, like other things is falling by the wayside but with all the appointments and tests and doctor’s visits etc. I’m usually too exhausted to do anything where I need to think! My sleeping habits are all over the place still, and the health issues STILL unresolved. Welcome to my Medical Mystery Tour!
After the lung function test, I saw the respiratory specialist. He pointed out that the emphysema is really quite mild (good) and that nodule isn’t anything to worry too much over just now but should be monitored. He noted on the scans that there was some slightly weird shading and couldn’t work out what it was – possibility that it was the end of an infection and something to look into later. After discussing symptoms and everything else he wondered if I might have Pulmonary Hypertension, Sleep Apnoea, a problem with my heart or Chronic Bronchitis. He decided more tests were needed to get a closer look at things!
He turns his attention to the relationship between my heart and lungs and decides he wants a closer look at my heart as well to try and rule out or diagnose something. So I had to have a high resolution CT of the chest, a pulmonary angiogram (which requires the use of a vein for the contrast – and we all know the story of my wonderfully co-operative veins), and an echocardiogram. I decided that I wanted to rule out other things too so got a pap smear and today I had a mammogram (I just don’t want other things lurking about unnoticed).
Off I head for the first two tests to be done at the same place and same time. The high resolution CT scan was to be done with me on my back and on my front to see if anything was affected by gravity. But first they wanted to catch my vein ready for the contrast. It wasn’t going to play ball – veins out on strike! I told her “look just put it in my hand, I know it will hurt but I need this done!” She said she’d rather not and got the senior radiology doctor in to try my other arm, no luck for him either. I guess you can’t get blood out of a stone, that’s how I felt. They decided to do the high res scan and then get me back in a few days later for the other one and try the veins again. They DID succeed the second time, but it took copious amounts of water to drink to really hydrate me and a heated wheat pack on my arm.
A visit to the doctor showed that the pap smear was normal (I’ve had two previous bad results that required further action, nice to rule this out). All tests done, so Monday I was back at the specialist to find out where things stood. He ruled everything out that he was looking for. But as is the way with every test I’ve had so far….he found something NEW!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Stop it!!!!
They have discovered a second “thing” or nodule, this time in my right lung and right underneath my heart. Ideally he would do a needle biopsy on that BUT (isn’t there always a but) because of its position, it’s right among all the veins or arteries or whatever they are called that supply the blood to the lungs from the heart and it’s TOO RISKY!
Wonderful!! Just absolutely great! NOT!
So, I have two options, they can do a bronchoscopy and get a tube down there and do what they do, maybe look at it and take a biopsy OR I could have a PET scan. As the PET scan was the cheaper option on the day, I chose that! I’m yet to have it. Tomorrow I see my GP and will discuss it with him, this specialist, once he was getting closer to needing procedures done to me, was meant to get me into the public health system but he’s not doing that, so I feel that I need some advice on what to do next.
The worrying thing with the PET scan though is my veins, now I could apply the same strategy as I did for the successful angiogram but here is the problem. I have to travel just over an hour to get to the place that does this, by train. How am I to keep my veins warm over such a period of time? Stuart suggested we take a thermos with boiling water and a hot water bottle, yes that would work but we need to carry my cumbersome collection of scans too and the other various things to make the trip more comfortable.
I’m just at a stage where I’m totally fed up with all these tests, I’m losing faith in this specialist who is supposed to be very reputable. Yeah he charges like a wounded bull! He’s starting to scratch his head now, I asked him “what could this other nodule be?” his answer was, “it may just be an enlarged lymph node or something else”. Ah…something else, now there’s a medical term you don’t hear too often! It’s a really irresponsible thing to say though isn’t it? Does he think he’s protecting me from potentially bad news? Does he not think that by saying “something else” our minds are not going to start worrying about the worst possible scenario?
Anyway, all this is wearing me down, so my blogging and online time will be intermittent until we start getting somewhere and I gain some energy back. Please keep positive thoughts coming my way, I can do with all the help I can get right now!
So, sit back and enjoy The Beatles version of Medical Mystery Tour….even the words almost fit with the new name I’ve given it!
Tags: Health Issues, heart, lungs
This year I am participating in the Leukaemia Foundation’s “World’s Greatest Shave”. It’s such a worthy cause and of course Lymphoma hasn’t been ruled out for me yet, but regardless I am doing this.
Between March 11-13 all over Australia, people will be sitting down ready to have their hair shaved or temporarily coloured to raise much needed funds and awareness. What a great thing to participate in!
I was going to do it last year but didn’t get around to it and my sister reminded me so I signed up yesterday and already have had five generous sponsors who so far have donated $267 which is a fantastic start. And to all of them, I’m gobsmacked and truly grateful, and to the two who remain anonymous, thank you also. And Shelley…whoa – you LEGEND! 
When I got the good news that I didn’t have lung cancer, I decided to celebrate, I went and changed my hair, got my nails done and my first pedicure. My hair has always been my crowning glory….if my hair is looking shabby, I feel shabby. I rarely take a photo of myself without my hair near to perfect. Now it’s going, going, gone!
Here’s a couple of pics of how it currently looks
I will leave it to grow now, it grows very fast, so in two months there will be more to shave off!
I am hoping that I can get plenty of sponsors who will help push me to my goal or further which will really egg me on to shave my head. You can view my profile here: Sponsor Wendishness in World’s Greatest Shave and I would dearly love if you could share this with the people you know. It’s a great cause, and too many people fall victim to leukaemia, lymphomas and other blood disorders so please get behind me on this one if you can. You can donate on my page using the sponsor me button or if you’d prefer, you can send a cheque/check to me and I will send you back a receipt.
Tags: hair, world's greatest shave
Firstly, to all the Fun Monday players, apologies for my few weeks away without any notice, my health took a BIG dive (you can catch up below if you’d like), but I’m back in business for now at least. I’ve missed playing but my mind has been so distracted. Secondly…Welcome to 2010 (a little late) but I wish you all a safe and happy new year.
Now, onto this week’s assignment. Jill @ The Adventures of Lil’ Mouse has set a challenge that seems like a bit of a chore j/k.
She asks: What is your least favorite chore? Vacuum get you down? Dust bunnies saying, “oh yeah, you and what army?” Is there a chore that you neglect doing it until the absolute last minute when guests arrive? Do you just pray they won’t look ‘there’? Are you going green with your cleaning? Top tips? If you have any ideas for anyone on Monday, post them in their comment box, because we all know that we LOVE comments!
Where do I start on this one?
I’ve never minded doing chores, especially when I’m in my own place, in fact I’ve been accused of being a little OCD at times (not with everything though).
Since I fell on a flight of stairs and my back has been getting worse, it’s been much harder to do a lot of things and now I need help. Now my health is going through more trials and tribulations and I overheat quickly, have some trouble with breathing, not to mention energy levels, it’s even harder. I hardly do a thing!
But in my own house, there isn’t anything that really bothers me, cleaning the loo, the bathroom, ironing, washing.
Actually, I just remembered something I do NOT like doing….anything in the garden, it’s not about getting dirty or anything. It’s the nasty bugs we get here in Australia, poisonous spiders and occasional snakes…you get my drift! But I haven’t got a green thumb anyway.
Here I have three other people who can help with the chores though….but that’s usually through a fair bit of nagging!
Click on Jill’s link above and go see what everyone else’s thoughts are on chores, chores, chores!
Tags: chores, fun monday
Wow…what a work out that was! I had it on Thursday, since then my energy levels have been up and down, mostly down. That’s also partly due to a dare that I won’t mention here where I had to do a quick sprint – which left me gasping for air.
Emphysema was confirmed after the test, she phoned through to the pathologists to get my haemoglobin results and confirmed that news. Still not sure what the other thing in the lung is but I see the respiratory specialist this coming Friday. I’m expecting there will be more tests and scans and various other things.
One thing of note was in the questionnaire I had to fill out before hand, wow, talk about pages and pages to fill in, but in order to get a full idea of what your body has been subjected to, it also gives you a chance to be honest about what you’ve put into your body that can damage it. Never in my life have I been so completely honest on one of those forms, because I know my life is so important to keep finally!
Anyway, I survived the lung function test, I didn’t pass out but went so dizzy and light-headed but then she gave me a test full of oxygen so that made up for it a little LOL.
In the meantime I’m still doing all my healthy things, so my body is in the best situation to help start fighting what it needs to. I’m getting some extra tests done this coming week, ultrasound on my thyroid again, pap smear, then I’ll book in for a mammogram just to make sure all those things are well. I’m getting sick of surprises so I thought I’d check into them myself.
Tags: emphysema, lung function test, lungs
Okay, it’s almost time for them to get their comeuppance. So far only the left lung appears to be showing signs of damage. This morning I finally got through to the specialist’s rooms and the lady there was quite helpful, at first she wasn’t sure that I was an urgent case. I told her I didn’t know since I’m no doctor, I read out the referral and her reply was “right, we’ll get you in quick!” 
I don’t know that I quite like that!
First off I have to go in for a lung function test – oh joy, that’s going to be fun, I know my lung capacity isn’t wonderful as I get puffed out pretty quickly but I’ll do my best! That is in two days – so this Thursday I will have that done.
In between times I am having an appointment with my GP for a pap smear (TMI sorry guys) but it’s an important thing to keep tabs on since I’ve already had two big scares with that region and for my own benefit I need to check these things out. That’s next Tuesday, a week from today.
Thursday 21st, I go and have a thyroid and neck ultrasound so they can take another look at my thyroid, not taking chances with anything at the moment, just about everything is getting tested to make sure there’s no evils lurking elsewhere. Considering that I have reactive lymph nodes, they need to find what they are reacting to!
The the following day – Friday 22nd I will be seeing the specialist himself, I think he’s a pulmonologist or something like that – he will go through the lung function test results, check my CT scans, read all the notes and look at the copious blood test results which will help him determine where to go from there.
Wow, by that weekend I think I’m going to be absolutely exhausted – what do you think? Anyway, that’s the current information, as I find out more I will make sure that I update people since some of these things can be quite serious.
But let’s finish on some GOOD NEWS!!!
My latest blood test from last week has shown that my liver function is starting to improve so my diet as described HERE plus taking the herbal tonic is doing it’s job and saving my liver!
And that’s a real great big of news for me! I’m so happy with that! 
I do apologise for being so far behind in my blog reading, but I’m sure you can all appreciate that I’ve got a lot on my mind, not to mention all the related symptoms etc… but as soon as I can rejoin the blog world properly, I will just have to do the best I can.
Tags: lung function test, lungs, pulmonologist, specialist
In 7 and a half weeks I’ve lost 10kg (21 lbs) and a lot of people are asking “what’s your secret?” As I mentioned in my previous post, I was diagnosed with having NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). Western medicine has no real treatment for this condition, what will help it is supplements from a health food store and a change of diet. I knew that I had to find out more, so my first port of call was the local Naturopath in my neighbourhood.
I told her what my ailment was and immediately she suggested a herbal tonic she could make up, I can’t remember exactly what’s in it but I know there is Dandelion root, and St Mary’s Thistle but a couple of extras too. I take 5 ml, three times a day in water before meals. This really kick started my liver into action quite quickly.
We had a great chat about things I could also do to help my liver and quickly recommended a book that she felt would help me along too. Remember, the liver is one of the most important organs in our bodies and it’s what controls our metabolism. Got a sluggish metabolism? Maybe your liver needs some help?
I looked at the back of the book to see what it said and there was a checklist of 20 things to indicate that your liver might need help and I answered yes to most of them. I walked out of the store with my herbal tonic AND a copy of the book.
What is this book you might ask? It’s the Liver Cleansing Diet by Dr Sandra Cabot, some of you may have heard of it before, I had but never considered it might help me. You can read more about the book and what Dr Sandra Cabot suggests to help your liver amongst other things at www.liverdoctor.com. FYI: clicking through to this does not make me any money, I’m just happy to share what I’m learning with others in case they find it could help them. Here is a list of the things on the back of the book to ask yourself.
Do you suffer from:
- Being overweight?
- Abdominal bloating?
- Poor digestion?
- Frequent fatigue?
- Headaches?
- Unpleasant moods?
- Bad breath and coated tongue?
- Irritable bowel syndrome?
- Sluggish metabolism?
- Overburdened immune system?
- Excessive bodyheat?
- High cholesterol?
- Gall bladder disease
- Fatty liver
- Allergies
- High blood pressure
- Sugar cravings
- Intolerance to alcohol
- Excess alcohol intake
- Inability to lose weight
The book offers a lot of information about the liver and it’s function within the body, helping the regular person understand fully just how much the liver does, it’s an incredibly important organ, perhaps the most important organ when you fully understand its function within the body.
Dr Cabot shares her diet strategy, it’s an 8 week diet. But let me get one thing straight here, it’s NOT a calorie counting diet, it’s not like the Atkins diet, it’s not like any of the diets where you use a lot of protein shakes to replace meals, it’s simply a change of eating regime to cut out the bad fats, replace them with healthy ones, and to get all your nutritional needs through foods that aren’t over processed and full of preservatives and additives. Realistically, it’s changing your eating habits to eating the way we should have done in the first place – a long time before convenience foods came along. I think this is where people misunderstand me when I say I’m on a diet, I’m not, I’m on a healthy eating plan using fresh foods and cutting out all the things that are bad for my body.
So, in this book she gives you step by step instructions on what types of things to eat in the first two weeks, then the next four weeks and then the final four weeks. Included in the book are recipes for so many things, from main courses, entrees, soups, shakes, spreads, cereals, cakes, burgers, and all kinds of other things. The BEST thing about this eating plan is it won’t take long and you no longer crave sweet foods, you don’t feel hungry in between meals. The basic premise is that you’re eating liver friendly food that kicks your liver into doing it’s thing naturally.
One of the things that I really do like about it is there is plenty of choices of different foods to eat, considering that we all have different tastes, there really is something for everyone. Sure, there are things I can’t eat at the moment but I’m not missing them at all, because everything I’m eating NOW is so healthy and tasty! I crave these foods, I know there is nothing bad in them and in turn my body is showing signs that I’m doing the right thing by it.
Here’s the thing though, I’m not actually following her diet plan. My choice in this is due to finances, as I’m on a disability pension and my husband is on special benefit, we really don’t make enough money to buy everything to do the diet as she has it. Is this a problem? Not in the least, because Dr Sandra Cabot offers suggestions for people such as myself. She knows that for various reasons people can’t do this diet as she has it, so she has put in “The Twelve Vital Principles to Improve your Liver Function” and these are what I follow. But, looking through her diet food suggestions, I buy what I can to get the best out of it.
Basically I use the 12 principles and I don’t eat anything with refined sugar in it, I eat only vegetables, fruits, pulses or legumes, sprouts, nuts, LSA (linseed, sunflower and almond crushed powder which is great to sprinkle on just about anything), I have fresh fruit juice I make myself, I eat only organic eggs, I eat cold water fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel and I’m allowed organic chicken. At this stage, no red meats but once I get down to my goal weight I will introduce only lean and organic meats.
The thing with the liver and weight loss is this, following this diet or a modification of it like I am, your metabolism balances itself out and you naturally start losing weight until you reach your goal weight. If you’re already quite lean and don’t need to lose weight but you use this diet to help something else listed above, you won’t lose weight because your metabolism knows you’re already at your goal weight. It’s such simple logic really.
I drink plenty of water through this, I have also cut out all dairy products, I’ve replaced milk with soy milk, I don’t eat cheese, no yoghurt, no ice-cream BUT I am allowed sorbet or sherbet (depending on where you live). There are more things that I eat but I can’t really remember off the top of my head, but I’ll throw in a little slideshow of the things I have been eating. Btw, hommus on rye bread – divine! I use hommus as a dip or spread, I use avocado as a spread too or sliced. I never feel hungry, I always feel fulfilled, everything is tasty and the weight is almost dripping off me. I know I’m on a winner here and will stick to it until I am down to my goal weight and then stick to a maintenance plan which won’t be much different as I love this and my body feels so much better for it overall. Yes, there are things that aren’t well in my body, but eating so healthy I’m giving my body the best chance ever to help it heal.
Feel free to ask me any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them – and see if you can spot my “helper” who sometimes pops along and helps me eat my dinner.
One last thing I want to share is Maca Power, (the Inca superfood) which is made by 100% pure Maca root powder. I take this 3 times a day and it’s benefits balance a woman’s hormonal system. So in addition to my diet this actually takes care of my PMS and regulates my monthly cycle – I swear by it’s benefits. It also helps with my stress levels too, things that would’ve had me flying off the handle now I can deal with in a really balanced and healthy way. Onwards and upwords and YAY to the Incas for growing such a wonderful root vegetable! Apparently it’s only grown in the Andes.
Tags: diet, Dr Sandra Cabot, fatty liver, liver cleansing, maca power, naturopath, the health shelf
How it all started!
I have an underactive thyroid gland – Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis to be exact – most likely caused by having diabetes in past family members, I was diagnosed with this at age 25 but could have had it earlier than that. It was found because I was insistent with my then doctor that something wasn’t right and I pushed him to do every test imaginable to find it, and eventually he did. There was no cancer causing it, the link was to past family who had diabetes.
I’ve had all the tests done on it, and I need regular blood tests to monitor the thyroxine levels and get my medication adjusted accordingly but overall it’s functioning, albeit artificially. The endocronologist who I was dealing with when he felt it said there is hardly anything left, my white cells have all but destroyed it thinking it’s a disease but the medication taken daily for the rest of my life will fill that void. No big problem, I’m so used to this now.
A New Doctor
I went to the doctor, a new doctor in fact, as I was suffering from depression and my sister was so concerned that I was getting far too low in my moods, she could see the warning signs that things were getting so bad she feared for my life. I don’t know that I was getting that low, but maybe I was. She took steps to drag me to her doctor and get me the help I needed. This doctor (a female) is wonderful, she’s very much into holistic healing, western medicine and alternative medicine both feature well in her treatments. I liked this because she wasn’t about to try and just pump me full of synthetic drugs. She decided that as many health problems can affect our moods she wanted to check my thyroid (which can affect moods) as well as other things, so she sent me for blood tests. Never a fun thing for me as my veins are wonky, little spindly things that pop out from under the needle, it’s a stressful thing for me to go through and I don’t “bleed” well either.
The results came back, thyroid levels a bit too high, so she’s been lowering them slowly, my white cell count which I thought was low wasn’t, I found it was a little too high (that can indicate different diseases and other issues), but this is when she discovered there were problems with my liver. More blood tests to check those areas. We discovered Epstein Barr Virus – glandular fever/mononucleosis but there were still questions about the liver.
Fatty Liver Disease
She sent me for an abdominal ultrasound, thinking that I may have gallstones. None were detected but it did show up I have a liver disease. The liver disease I have is called Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). It basically means that fat was depositing itself in my liver and making it impossible to actually lose any weight, among other things. A second ultrasound showed crystals forming in the wall of my gallbladder which may end up being gallstones at some point, but we’ll worry about that later. My new doctor wanted to take a closer look at everything because still the results weren’t to her liking, she knew something extra was going on so she organised for me to have an Abdominal CT Scan with contrast (Iodine drink for the intestinal/bowel area and the injection for the organs). They revealed nothing new in my abdomen BUT they showed something that wasn’t expected.
A Nodule in My Left Lung
Naturally the bottom of the lungs are caught by the abdominal CT scan and the radiologist called my doctor who promptly got me back in, there was a nodule on the bottom of my left lung that “might be cancer”. I wasn’t overly surprised by that news since I had a history of smoking BUT it’s still not something you want to hear, it’s the old thing “those things always happen to someone else, not to me”, but it looked like I’d been playing Russian Roulette far too long and I may have got the bullet.
This was on the 23rd of December, they were closing for the Christmas/New Year break and as they wouldn’t be back until the 5th of January she wanted it checked into asap. She suggested I go to the Hospital Emergency department with a letter she wrote asking them to follow it up. They weren’t too pleased with the whole idea of this because they figured I’d be seeing different people and there wouldn’t be the continuity of care if I followed this plan. I wasn’t overly fussed with spending Christmas in hospital, though I would have if I had to.
They did a standard chest x-ray which showed nothing and checked all my vital signs and then asked me if I had a backup? I asked “a back up what? plan? lung? generator?” The registrar said “do you have a back up doctor you could see while she’s away so you’ve got the continuity of care?” Ummm, yeah there’s my old doctor that I see, and if I can’t get into see him, there are others there that I could see. Okay, I could go home. They wrote my other doctor a slightly sarcastic letter pushing him to fix it all! OMG!
Xmas Eve and My Other Doctor
Well, being the optimist I am, I was sure that even on Christmas Eve, I’d manage to get in to see my old doctor (he’s so popular it’s hard to get an appointment so quickly with him) and sure enough I got in early. I took all the info with me and he said “right, let’s see if we can get you a chest CT scan today and have the results back today”. He phoned the radiologist and got me in an hour later, so off we dashed across to the other side of town. The odd thing is it’s in my Sister’s run (she’s a FedEx courier) and while sitting, waiting for my appointment, we’d been just saying, “gee wouldn’t it be funny to bump into her in the area”, no sooner had we said it, she walked in the door to do a pick up! There were lots of stunned looks of “omg” “what are the odds?” haha but the whole experience seemed to be getting things to happen when we asked for them!
I had the CT scan and it was a fun experience, he couldn’t get a vein this time so it wasn’t with the contrasting Iodine but never mind, we had a laugh because I asked him “is it in yet?” then said “perhaps that’s the wrong thing a woman should ask a man”, we fell about laughing over that one, and then he said something later, can’t remember what it was but it was equally as funny and naughty but it lightened the mood, when I was looking at a possible cancer. I kept in mind that everyone (I had three opinions) said “it MIGHT be cancer”….that translated to me as “it might NOT be cancer too”, so I clung to that.
So where is this thing?
We got home with the films but the doctor is always sent the report, so we sat and waited for the phone call. He called me later in the afternoon and said “they haven’t sent the report through even though I marked it urgent and I just called them but they’ve shut for the day”. DAMN DAMN DAMN! I have to worry about this over Christmas! :(
You know what? I wasn’t about to let it spoil my Christmas, I refused to, because it MIGHT NOT be cancer! We had a great Christmas day, it was just my parents, sister, myself and my husband and that’s all I wanted on THAT day. We enjoyed our day but you could feel that little cloud above us all silently, even though nothing was said. But we did the best with what we had and I can say it was one of my best Christmases ever!
My current doctor (the old one) was due to have the following week off, but he’d authorised one of the other doctors to get the results and phone me on the Tuesday after Christmas. That was a tense wait.
On the morning, the first thing I did was phone the radiologist to find out if they’d sent the results through and she said “yes, we sent them through for download at 3:15pm on the 24th of December!” Grrrrrrrrrr that meant that the STUPID receptionists hadn’t downloaded them for MY doctor who I spoke to after that time.
I called the doctor’s office and spoke to one of the receptionists and explained the situation and asked her to get someone onto this quickly, after all it was a potentially big thing and my doctor wanted me to know as soon as possible. She told me “well, we’re busy all day so we’ll try”, I told her it better be sooner rather than later as I’d been up all night worrying!
The results – good and not so good
10am came and the owner and head doctor of that practice called me with the best news ever “it’s NOT cancer!” wow, the relief that flooded over me. No cancer BUT there IS a problem, in fact there are two problems there. It’s all in the left lung, my right is clear. It turns out that my smoking history has left some damage and I have some emphysema, plus something else that they can’t tell what it is yet but I have reactive lymph nodes in the centre of my chest so they need to find out what they are reacting to.
When my doctor (the old one) got back from holidays (this last Tuesday) I went in to see him, he’s given me a referral to a respiratory specialist, I’m to phone to make the appointment this morning and if they won’t fit me in within two weeks I’ve got to phone him and he’ll call and force them to see me in that time. He explained more about the issues but said the specialist will obviously do more testing, perhaps a MRI and PET scan to delve deeper and find out what this questionable thing might be. I’m obviously not out of the woods yet but at least so far we’re ruling things out and finding out what can be fixed etc…
I then went back to my newer doctor that same day as she wanted to know the outcome, so I gave her a copy of the report and she said that a lot of the blood tests she’s been doing have good information for the specialist, they help rule out things to look at and give him things to check into, so she then sent me for another blood test to add a couple of other possibilities to make his job easier to nail down the areas to look at. I get those results tomorrow.
So….this saga will be going on for a while, in my next post I will explain how the liver disease is treated and with the emphysema, as I no longer smoke, it will just stay where it is but I can now work on building up my lung capacity again. And hopefully this other thing going on, won’t be too difficult or dangerous and can be also fixed. Keep me in your thoughts or prayers, it’s just really horrible to know that on the outside while I don’t feel too bad (apart from tired and lack of energy and low breathing capacity) inside, my body seems to be having a hard time.
BTW, I’ve also had some close calls with cervical cancer, so getting a pap smear in about a week’s time and will also get a mammogram too just to rule things out, I don’t like surprises much!
Thanks for all your support through this, no doubt you’ve not heard the last on all these things but the great news is I do NOT have cancer!!! :D
P.S. The glandular fever has gone now too…got that good news the other day, it means Stu and I can be intimate again!!
Tags: cancer, emphysema, fatty liver, lung, lymph nodes, nodule
