Scary box of Kleenex

• Bloodwork, appointment with Dr. T and treatment at Siteman South County

When is a cute flowery box of Kleenex more than just a cute flowery box of Kleenex? When the nurse brings it into the room and leaves it, just minutes before I am going to find out the results of yesterday's CT scan. Ummmm. Hello panic my old friend.

Thankfully I didn't need too many tissues. A tumor in my abdominal muscle (on my left side, below my belly button, on the skin-facing side of the muscle) has grown and is showing up on my scans as measurable now. Thankfully when the med student was feeling around today, she couldn't feel it. (I really didn't want her to be able to feel it.) And the inflamed lymph node in my peritoneal cavity... remains inflamed.

There was nothing on the CT to explain my right-sided pelvic pain so we're blaming that pain on surgical adhesions from my 3 open abdominal surgeries.

Other than that, it's back to Xeloda and Avastin. And I'll see Dr. T again in 6 weeks.