Scan

I’ve been back to the hospital today for my ‘watch and wait’ appointment. On the whole, it seems like good news as my bloods are much the same as they were three months ago. However, the lump on my neck has definitely become a little larger – the consultant estimated it to be around 4cm in diameter, up from 2.7cm a year ago. There’s nothing much else to see externally, but I’ve been asked to go back for a CT scan to check to see if anything is happening internally.

I quite enjoyed my CT scan last year – it felt rather like being on a giant photocopier. I bet some of you have been to office Christmas parties that ended up with someone on the machine … CT scans are infinitely preferable to either a bone marrow biopsy or a fMRI scan in my experience. And there’s no chance of the glass breaking and splintering into your backside, unlike a ride on an office photocopier. (I don’t have any first hand experience of that before you ask!)

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The eventual outcome will be treatment of course, but if the progress of my lymphoma really is as slow as it appears to be at the moment I’m hopeful that I might get another year’s grace – or more – before it’s needed. If that’s the case, it should give me plenty of time to finish my masters, buy a Caterham 7 and drive around the highlands of Scotland in it next summer.