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Had a CT on Tuesday, went in for the results today. I’m happy to report that, not only is the central retropertioneal adenopathy slightly diminished, but also no significant mesenteric adenopathy is identified.

Really, you can’t make this stuff up. It’s all greek to me. Anyway, bottom line is, everything looks great, my odds of relapse are now down to about 10%, which is still higher than I’d like, but much better than the 50% of a year ago. We’re now going to switch from doing a check up every 3 months to every 6 months. Next time will be just blood work, and then a year from now, another CT (yay, a whole year without having to drink that damn contrast fluid).

So, yeah, party :)

All clear! Results “better than expected”. Come back in 3 months and we’ll do this again! Woohoo!

Last week I went in to have some blood drawn for various blood tests and on Monday I went in for a CT scan. Today, we went in to find out the results of these tests.

I’m still cancer free! Woohoo! 3 months down the road and things are looking great. Blood test results are all normal. The CT scan revealed that my lymph nodes are all looking normal, apart from some in my neck which are a little big, but they’re smaller than they were before which indicates that they’re still shrinking, which is great.

So, going forward, we have to wait another 3 months, do more blood work, and if things look good again then, wait another 3 months, do a CT, etc. etc.. After that, they start doing the tests less frequently – maybe every 6 months, and so on, until after 5 years of no relapse, they declare me ‘cured’. So, only 4 years and 9 months to go :)