Hopeful
Although……I been running the gamut of emotions over the past month from fear to pity to sadness to shock to bitterness to relief to hope…you name it I have felt it.
I was diagnosed with non Hodgkin’s lymphoma about a month ago. It’s been a wild ride. Just getting diagnosed took two hospital stays over four months apart, numerous visits with my primary care physician, cat scans and MRIs out the wazoo -a lumbar drain- and finally out of necessity a triple biopsy in and on top of the brain. Subsequent to diagnosis I have had a PET scan and bone marrow biopsy to try and confirm lymphoma is limited to brain. Results have been good. My partner has been yelling at me for years “Do you have a brain tumor?!?!” 
Now that we know what we are facing we have settled on a treatment plan to begin next week. I think prognosis is reasonably good but one never knows. I put my hopes in medical science.
Wow. Good vibes sent your way.
A few weeks ago, I found out that I didn' have prostate cancer. But I was in limbo for 3+ months. Two sketchy PSA tests and a sketchy MRI. Finally, a targetted biopsy gave the definitive analysis that the lesion was not cancerous. But I was on edge for 3+ momths, from teh time of first high PSA score to the time I got the biopsy results.
So my mood has been on a high note since I got the results a couple or few weeks ago.
We are fortunate to live in a time where medican science has advanced to where it is.
