News?

I just got a call from the hospital. Man. I got a bit nervous when they start a phone call with "This is Laura from HCMC, Is this Jason?". Turns out that they were just calling to remind me of my appointment tomorrow at 1. At least now I know exactly where to go. That'll be nice.

So, Tomorrow I find out what happens. Either there is no cancer in the lymph node that they took out, and they chalk me up in the "Cancer Survivor" statistic, or there IS cancer in my lymph node, and it could be anywhere. The impression that I get is that the Sentinal node is the lymph node that is the first in the series for a particular area. When they injected me with dye, it drained to the "sentinal" node. From there, it can go anywhere and everywhere. I am under the impression that things go the sentinal node first, and then wherever it wants after that. No easy way to know.

I do know that I don't have any tumors, as an early x-ray and blood test indicated. Basically, If it's not in my node, I'm "cured" and that seemed too easy, despite the level of suck. If it's in there I'm screwed and get to do chemo to kill it. No more choppin me up, cause they don't know where I'd be hiding. Although, they do have fancy machines to help them find it.

We'll see how it is. I'll update when I find out. Come say hi to me at black dog.