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Kick in the Gut

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By casade

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October 2020 would mark 13 years cancer free from Stage III recurrent Endometrial Cancer. Finally felt safe and moved 6.5 hours from the hospital that saved my life, to a little piece of Paradise with a rural health system.

Sent for an x-ray

Went to them with a complaint about a possible ACL strain from a fall during moving 5 months ago, that was getting worse, not better. The PA had me move my arm around and said she wanted to do an x-ray. After the x-ray, she said she was sending it to my previous radiology oncologist to read. Whoa. CT scan ordered, 10cm mass in my chest.

Is it cancer?

So, Friday - driving 6.5 miles back to the hospital that saved my life 13 years ago for - a brain mri, a pet scan and a lung function test. My Oncologist made it happen so fast that I can't imagine it's not cancer. The CT scan report was full of terms I had to look up, like upper pole of left kidney (just had kidney stones) cranial, broken glass mass, thyroid - well you get it. I'm pissed. Cancer is a sneaky b*stard.

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