Saba Beats Cancer

We went in for the first oncology visit at Methodist with Dr. Heyne and things were going well.  He pointed out the positives that my blood work was normal and then examined the lymph lumps and said gotta biopsy those bad boys and it turns out we wear the same underwear that is pretty awesome -  but then he finishes with  - 'you have a potential blood clot in your brain and I really don't feel comfortable sending you home with a potential stroke. He sent the MRI to the Methodist neurologist Dr. Volpe who concurred with him on the MRI that it was not a good thing to have a "p ossible partial dural venous sinus thrombosis which could account for the heterogeneous flow in the dural sinuses." So here we are - I will cop to the fact that the double vision thing was starting to bother me and was worried about driving like that.  So Lee and I were glad they recommended getting that fixed first. The sharp stabbing headaches and neck pain also are not fun.  So off ...

I suppose on the journey you learn a lot about what your body is responding to as it relates to the invasion.  Yesterday was a big learning day. Obviously green tea is a big anti-oxidant boost.  So we have fresh mint out back and I got some ginger and made a big ol cup of steaming hot great tea. And one hour later it felt like someone was drilling both molars out without novacane - pain so sharp it brought tears to my eyes.  Had to look back at the diagnosis and there is all this weirdness going on in my head like thrombosis and such.  At the time I didn't connect to the green tea but it took 2 400 MG of ibuprofen to finally get to where I could eat.  I was actually thinking of the SNL skit way back in the day when Billy Crystal would say things like "last week I drilled out both back molars without novacane" and the other guy would go - "man I hate it when that happens. I didn't make the connection to the green tea until this morning lying in bed. In fact, ...

A couple of people on the team said - what is it - hard to describe without the diagnosis so here is what the MRI peeps said.  My Doc warned me that reading it sounds like I am done - but that's their job.  Main positives are the fact they aren't screwing up bones and such and the brain is not affected.  Woo hoo - I have spent a lot of time cutting and pasting words into the google to figure it out So here it is: EXAMINATION: MRI THORACIC SPINE WO CONTRAST CLINICAL HISTORY: M54.2 Cervicalgia, M54.12 Radiculopathy cervical region, neck pain radiating to left upper extremity COMPARISON: None. Frontal and lateral views of the thoracic spine were obtained. FINDINGS: There is a metastatic lesion in the posterior T2 vertebral body measuring 1.4 cm. There is some enhancement in the bilateral T3 rib head regions and extension to the facets. There is another metastatic lesion at T4 measuring 14 mm. These are both confined to the vertebral bodies without extraosseous e...