I think I have been coughing more since I stopped chemo. But I have allergies and tend to get upper respiratory infections now and again. The last week or so I have been feeling like that maybe I had another respiratory infection and have not been training as much. Resting. A bit bummed because I was not training.
So today, before a CT scan of my lungs, which is the first CT scan of my lungs since I stopped chemotherapy, I made sure to do a bike/run brick as part of my defiance (in my mind :) ) to my cancer. About 13.6 miles on the bike and 1.2 miles on the treadmill.
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| A quick photo of the computer screen of two images from my last scan and the current scan. Pretty much lined up to be at the same spot. Looks clear as to what is happening. |
Then off to CT Scan. I am not sure if I have ever stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. I may have. If I did, that would be the pinnacle of the medical training I have had in connection with reading a CT Scan. That being said, I have some sense of reading the lungs in general after going through this 5 years. I will still miss subtleties. But today was not so subtle.
It is pretty clear that the cancer is having a field day in my lungs. I am hoping that maybe I am reading it wrong. That maybe the images are slightly off from when I tried to line them up. But I know that is a bit clutching at straws.
I really hope that the oncologist gives me a different take on it. But the best I think I can hear at this point that this is considered relatively slow growing and I can go on a bit
longer than what part of me is thinking as the finish line.
Tomorrow is a swim day. I will be enjoying every lap.
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