Some of you know I was offline for a bit this week for surgery. What you didn’t know (and what I didn’t know until about 2 hours ago) is that the surgery has uncovered cancer.

I’m intentionally using “c” cancer and not “C” Cancer because 6 months ago the biopsies I had done were pre-cancerous with no sign of cancer proper.

So, whatever it is, it developed in the last 6 months and I take that as a good sign.

From here I need to focus on doing what the docs tell me to do starting with blood tests tomorrow, then we’re doing genetic stuff and a CT scan, that will tell us the official “stage” of the cancer.

My plan is to come back, but it won’t be immediate and I don’t (yet) have any sort of timeline. My ideas are probably more aggressive than the doctors and insurance will allow. 😉

So I’m planning on the worst, doing paperwork, advanced directives, all the stuff you don’t usually have to think about. Then we’ll see where it goes.

I wish Lemmy all the luck in the world!

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
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    4 hours ago

    Well, it wasn’t entirely out of the blue, there were biopsies 6 months ago and they sent me photos, which made me go “Hey, that’s fucking cancer!” but the people with actual degrees in this were saying “No, no, it’s pre-cancer.”

    So on the one hand I get to tell the doctors “SEE! SEE!” 😉

    When they pull something out of you that looks like Tetsuo from the end of Akira… yeah…