BULLETIN AND BIT OF BACKLOG - 25 APRIL 2023
Haven't written here in months - last year was pretty gruelling and required a long emergence perioid. The unfinished spiel at the bottom is something I drafted mid September. After that, I think any energetic moments had to be portioned out to high priority activities. Writing now mostly to publicise my consultant's above-and-beyond efforts - see below. 🏃 Looking back briefly: the end of treatment scan (Oct 22) showed the chemo had worked. The 3-month scan (Jan 23) showed the 'main' tumour had shrunk further although the Ca125 had goneup from 8 to 28. Ca125's now 175 despite the CT scan showing nothing remarkable going on in my pelvis. But there are some newly enlarged (albeit still small) para-aortic lymph nodes, which are associated with ovarian and some other metastases: https://radiopaedia.org/articles/para-aortic-lymph-nodes-2?lang=gb#:~:text=Para%2Daortic%20lymph%20nodes%20(often,the%20cisterna%20chyli%202%2D4. ) So, to provide more info, I'm to get a...