12-27-2016 12:44PM
Tell me about medical jargon. No wonder people think doctors are fuckin' geniuses. And still I'll edit for relevance:
EXAM: PET/CT SKULL BASE TO MIDTHIGH (easy part so far)
FINDINGS: There is physiologic uptake of tracer in the head and neck.
...2-3 mm nodules in right middle lobe; nodules in right middle lobe, a 4 mm perifissural nodule in the inferior lingula, and a 3 mm left lower lobe peripheral nodule.
No significant increased uptake in the skeleton and no suspicious lytic or blastic lesions.
IMPRESSION: Hypermetabolic focus in the body, the stomach consistent with the patient's recently diagnosed gastric adenocarcinoma. Adjacent slightly prominent nodes, which are not FDG avid but raise the question of adjacent metastatic adenopathy and biopsy would be needed for further evaluation. Nonspecific bilateral pulmonary nodules as above.
To translate, this basically means I'm sick. Got cancer cells floating around stomach and lymphatic system. And treatment strategy was nothing short of aggressive and brutal. All I can say is that the experience was hellishly memorable. Surviving has not been easy. But hey, nothing worthwhile is ever easy, right?
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