I thought I'd posted here after my check up in July but I guess not. Then again, thanks to work, this summer has pretty much passed me by. Literally, I am working 50-60 hours a week, every week, and have been doing my open water scuba qualification at the weekends. I am seriously shattered.
So when I saw Dr Stewart, she didn't know (surprise surprise) that I had been in hospital. She went and had a quick look at my notes, came back and asked me if anyone had let me know that the CT they did had shown suspicious enlargement of the lymph nodes in my pelvis (no, course they hadn't). She wrote to a good radiologist at the hospital, who recommended I be rescanned in November to compare the nodes and check it was just infection causing the enlargement, not cancer.
However a fortnight ago, I developed really bad pain in my pelvis, lower spine and legs. I don't think really heavy scuba equipment has helped, nor has the sheer volume of work I've been doing, but a few days ago, when I realised it was the same or worse, I asked for my CT scan to be brought forward. The wonderful Catherine, who is Dr Stewart's secretary, sorted it out even though Dr S was away. So I will have the scan tomorrow morning at Wigan Infirmary, the same place I was at in June and the same department who spilled a whole bag of contrast fluid into my arm causing 24 hours of severe nausea and pain. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. Once I know it's not mets and the nodes have gone down, I will be happy.
I will find out on or before 17th September when I go back to Dr S for surgery to remove the probable met on my leg and a mole next to it that caught her eye. Surgery is 4 weeks before my bucket list holiday to the Maldives so I need to make sure I rest and let it heal. Cannot wait for that holiday coz I feel like crap and I am utterly knackered.
What did your final wound look like. I only saw original 8 stitch one. Did you get a skin graft?
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