Day 67 - Talks with the surgeons

Wild awake at 2:21.
I decided I need some hot chocolate. Nice, with hot soya milk.

It is Sunday evening in the USA, and my Fantasy Football team is kicking ass WooHoo! So far 112 for the Kgwedi Super Dog team vs 33 for the other team.

I need to change my thinking about this whole sleep thing. It just IS what it is. I no longer sleep like other people do, I sleep like I do.
02:30, drinking hot chocolate and reading my book, is just the way it is. It isn't wrong, it just IS.
Of course I will have big problems when I try to interface with the real world :-)

That hot chocolate was great, so I just decided to have another one.
I am sure that if I search the internet enough, I will find a web site praising the cancer fighting qualities of hot chocolate. If I can't find one, I'll write one myself, just because I can. To quote Ayn Rand:
"The question isn't who is going to allow me; it's who is going to stop me."

Sure enough:
http://beatcancer.org/2014/02/top-7-dark-chocolate-health-benefits/
http://www.livestrong.com/article/14363-5-things-you-need-to-know-about-chocolate-and-cancer/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2091627/Eating-chocolate-stave-bowel-cancer-say-scientists.html

That is one of the problems with doing research for Angiosarcoma on the internet. There is a farrago of pros and cons for every treatment, every symptom, and every cure. Sometimes, reality, or the truth, isn't even in there anywhere. I remember my oncologist telling me "Don't read blogs, and don't blog." Obviously I don't follow her directions to the letter.

Now 2 games of Sudoku later, and I will try sleep again. It is 03:37
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14:00
Just back home from talk with Lady surgeon. She talked yesterday to two different angiosarcoma surgeons. Both said that if biopsy shows Angiosarcoma, and there is no metastasis, then remove all the cancer as soon as possible. Both looked at PET scan and both said amputate soonest.

The one is at a hospital far away (+-40km on other side of city), and the other is at a hospital only 8km from my house. We talked to the one at the hospital close. He opens at 09:00 in the morning, but said he will see me at 08:30 tomorrow morning, and to bring all my PET pictures, and biopsy results, and blood test results.

The Lady surgeon I talked to today is a very good soul. I like her. She is exactly how I think a Doctor should be.
The surgeon tomorrow is a cancer orthopedic specialist. He has shared surgery before with the Lady surgeon I like.
The Lady surgeon says that she would just be in the way if an amputation is for sure going to happen. Her expertise is in removing cancer with minimum damage to the surrounding body.

The orthopedic surgeon said that he should start a car dealership, as many of his patients trade in their manual transmission cars for automatic transmission cars. :-)

Since the only paper or pictures that I don't physically have are the ones from the lymphogram, I would try to get a copy of those. So before leaving the hospital, I decided to go to the biopsy surgeon, and see if he had copies for me. On the way there, I got lost. (It is a big hospital.) :-)
 I accidentally walked past the place that did the lymphogram. I went in, to ask, if they knew where I could get copies. There, in a chair drinking coffee, was the lady that had done my lymphogram. I asked her, and she said that if I was not in a hurry, she would retrieve and copy everything for me. I sat for an hour, and she brought all the pictures, and the results. That was very nice of her. Thank you lady.

They injected a toxic dye between the toes. Then they took pictures every once in a while to see how the dye moved through the lymphatic system. You can see the way the dye moves up the legs, how it stops below the knee on the left leg, and how it moves freely up the right leg. Also notice that after 3 hours the dye from the right leg is all in the groin lymph glands. There is no dye in the left groin lymph nodes.
 This complete lymphatic blockage may have helped to prevent the spread of the cancer into the lymphatic system.

As I was walking to the beetle, I decided to find exactly where the orthopedic surgeon's rooms are for tomorrow morning's appointment. I found them, and told the nice receptionist, that I would see her tomorrow. She smiled, asked if I was Mr. Wise, and said that she normally gets to work at 08:30 but tomorrow would be there from 08:00 just to be there when I arrive. That was a nice thing to hear. Some people do care. :-)
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