Ultrasound Results - Kind of
Thank you to everyone who's reached out to ask about my ultrasound results. I received the results on Sunday, but I couldn't make sense of them, even with ChatGPT. (Why do radiologists use their own secret language that only they can understand??) Since I didn't know what the results meant, I held off telling anyone until I had something to say. I knew I would at least get the full reading when I saw my oncologist on Tuesday. So we waited; a perfect discipline to cultivate as we start the season of Advent and waiting for our Savior's birth. We made it to Tuesday (whew, waiting wasn't easy), but it turns out we didn't learn a whole lot from the ultrasound. Nothing to verify the cause of everything going on in my abdomen. But we were able to rule out a blockage. Normally, not finding a blockage would be a reason for rejoicing, but in this case, a blockage would have meant something they could fix. Other causes are likely treatable but not fixable. In another blow,...