Tag: medical
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Medical update on me and Dara both
Dara’s followup appointment for her eye today means she can’t go to the hospital with me on Monday. But never fear, we have a PLAN.
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Game plan for this weekend and next week
Since my wife and I both have medical shenanigans going on, here’s what this weekend and next week are going to look like.
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So much for going to OryCon
Oh hey look Dara gets to have eye surgery! AGAIN!
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Oh look yet MORE medical fun
Words you don’t really want to hear in connection with your spouse: “emergency eye surgery”. Guess what Dara gets to do today!
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More medical thoughts
In which Anna gets introspective and thinks thinky thoughts. If you don’t know me personally, you can skip this one if you like. This post is mostly about my need to vent about current medical developments.
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The game plan
I get to have surgery in November, and the game plan is in place. Also, generating precancerous tissues sucks as a superpower.
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This just in: well, my week’s been ruined now
If you need me I’ll be over here having had my week completely shot to hell.
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This just in: the biopsy results are GOOD
I got the call this morning from the RN at Evergreen’s breast center, who told me that the results are clean, and that they are likely just the results of passing benign cysts that just sometimes happen in breast tissue. I told her she’d just handed me one HELL of a birthday present and thanked…
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How the biopsy went this morning
I posted a bit about this on the social networks, but here’s a somewhat longer report. What I went in for this morning at Evergreen was a stereotactic biopsy. Which basically means, a minimally invasive procedure in which they use targeted imaging and a thin needle. I had to lay face down on a table…
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Well, today just got really, REALLY annoying
Just the other day I was posting to the social networks that I’d just realized that I’d passed the five-year mark since my original breast cancer diagnosis in 2007, and was closing in on five years since I’d been pronounced cancer-free and had commenced reconstruction surgery. (All that got started in 2008, until everything was…