2 posts tagged “health scare”

Yesterday I received the preliminary results of the autopsy of the mass which was taken out of my groin last week. It’s benign. No cancer! I am meant to check in again in two weeks for the final pathology report, but it’s usually very unlikely that a final report differs from the preliminary. So I guess there’s a remote chance that I’m not out of the woods, but I think that the likelihood is sufficiently small that I don’t need to worry about it. In the same way that there’s a minuscule chance that I may be run over by a bus, die in a train crash, get killed in a terrorist attack or be struck by lightning.

I celebrated by going to a Holly Throsby concert tonight, which was great, but more on that later.

Thank you to everyone who’s wished me well during this health scare and has put up with my pre-occupation with this during the last month and a bit.

This has been a very unusual week. My operation was last Tuesday. Since then, I've had a rare experience where I have been given permission to rest, to do nothing constructive, to whatever I like – so long as it doesn’t interfere with the recovery of my wound. I’ve had a lot of sleep, I've been able to play a fair bit of World of Warcraft (WoW) and watch DVDs. The only thing is that I’ve needed to vary my position a little bit: cycling through sitting and reclining and lying down.

I’ve had so much of this leisure time that I’m bored with it. I feel like a kid who's wolfed down so much chocolate he doesn't want any more. I go to work tomorrow, Tuesday, and I'm quite looking forward to it. It was very nice that my co-workers sent me a get well soon card.

On Wednesday I will find out the results of the biopsy of my lump. There’s a chance that it will be bad news and I will need to focus my energies on surviving cancer. I think it’s more likely that it will be good news – that the problem was just limited to this lump and now that the lump is gone, it’s all over.

And then it will be time for me to get on with my life. I want to be prepared for this possibility, because from my experience, it can be quite disorientating to actually get what we want.