Christmas Colonoscopy

My reader recently sent me an email wondering if I was still alive because he had not heard from me.  I’ve just been a little lazy.  I’m glad people are looking out.

I’m still at the regular routine.  I missed some chemo because I picked up a nasty fever for about a week.  Since then I have continued to have some regular fever.  Chills in the morning and hotter than hell at night.

Last Wed. I was back in SLC having a Coil Embolization.  This is the first step of the Y90 Sir Sphere therapy.  The procedure is for a radiologist to go in through the femoral artery and scope and map out the blood system between there and the liver. The radiologist then coils off and blocks anything to goes anywhere but the liver.  This way when they hit the radiation they know it won’t go anywhere but where they want it to.  It isn’t a real painful procedure, but you are laying awake on a table for 4 hours.

I’m a little sore after the fact.  I thought the femeral artery would be accessed in the inner thigh.  Rather it is accessed right at your groin about 2 inches to the right of your unit (trust me I used my penis to measure).  So . . . lets just say I will not be masturbating anytime soon.  I have never been much for shaving down there, but they shaved basically one-half of the package.  So I’m running around with only fur on one side.  Real attractive.

I’m headed back to SLC on the 10th to have the stent removed from my bile duct.  Later that week or the next week I will have my first hit of radiation with the Sphere Therapy.  I’ll keep you posted.