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Still do not have cancer!
May. 2nd, 2024 11:05 amEvery time I have throat surgery I am grateful that I still don't have cancer.
With the amount of autoimmune damage and the occasional iatrogenic injury, my laryngeal area is absolutely at high risk for cancer. I mean, my body is ALREADY over-growing things, that's what I have all these surgeries!
But, so far, the extra tissue is stenotic scar tissue, not cancer.
And I am grateful every single time.
(Laryngeal cancer is a bear to treat, the outcomes are not great, and many times the treatment is a laryngdectomy. So I have that to look forward to at some horrible future point? Maybe? Possibly?)
Today's result? Still no throat cancer.
P.S.
A huge thank you to the very kind soul who, eight years ago when I had a brief initial misdiagnosis of throat cancer, sent me a small zebra stuffie. "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras," turned out to be inaccurate. I am a zebra!
With the amount of autoimmune damage and the occasional iatrogenic injury, my laryngeal area is absolutely at high risk for cancer. I mean, my body is ALREADY over-growing things, that's what I have all these surgeries!
But, so far, the extra tissue is stenotic scar tissue, not cancer.
And I am grateful every single time.
(Laryngeal cancer is a bear to treat, the outcomes are not great, and many times the treatment is a laryngdectomy. So I have that to look forward to at some horrible future point? Maybe? Possibly?)
Today's result? Still no throat cancer.
P.S.
A huge thank you to the very kind soul who, eight years ago when I had a brief initial misdiagnosis of throat cancer, sent me a small zebra stuffie. "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras," turned out to be inaccurate. I am a zebra!