I didn't know I've been evacuated - at least partially

Posted by jukkahoo

(They seem to have done some renovations here at the TypePad, again. There's finally strkir

srtkg

sktrt strikethrough!)

I went to see my onkologist. This time he was a very nice (Russian?) fellow, with perfect understanding of Finnish, even though he did "eeeeeeeee" a lot before he (once again) remembered the proper Finnish word.

I'm hunky dory. The various values were all within normal parameters, mostly very good, he said. My TT-scan was a rousing success, but they noticed some (and here I'm refering to the original report in Finnish): "Vakuuttavaa lymfooman aktivoitumiseen viittaavaa ei ole nähtävissä. Etumediastinumissa pientä epätarkkarajaista tiiviyttä, jonka kliininen merkitys jää epäselväski. Tätä lienee aiheellista pitää silmällä." Apparently there is some kind of unaccurately visible condensation (or summat, feel free to translate the original, my linguistially inclined friends) in my anterior mediastinum .  I'm more happy about the first line that reads more or less like: "No affirmative sign of lymphic activity". I'll take that as a good sign.

My doctor also said that a) I'd be going to these tests for nine (9!) more years and b) the implanted port in my chest would stay there for the duration. No problem with neither of these things. Slight inconvinience is a smallish price to pay for certainty. And the policlinic charge of €22.

The report also said: "Kuvattu natiivina jugulumista symsyyfiin." And: "[...]nekroosiin mennyt vas. kainalon tuumori evakuoitu[...]" Well, I never...

Now that I'm more or less happily OK, I managed only last night to sneeze a painful hole to the roof of my mouth. I have never ever heard of this and I'd be hard pressed to believe such a thing, but since it did happen to me, I'm inclined to do so. It's fairly painful (when swallowing) and practically prohibits me from eating anything with a zing to it. Like pretty much anything. I hope it'll heal soon and why shouldn't it as mouth is right about the fastest part of our anatomy to heal. With all those good thingybobs in our saliva.

And now: back to NaNoWriMo.

Comments

[Omppu]

Jei! I'm very happy for you. About the good sign, I mean. Not the hole in your mouth. Outch!