Okay so not so much, but I was surprised that I'd forgotten how much the CT scan infusion liquid makes you feel like you're slowly filling your pants as your body warms up during the intake of x-ray enhancing chemical goodness :)
If you haven't had the joy of a personal CT scan, basically they warn you about the sensation before administering the fluid. But of course then I'm thinking to myself... "I sure as heck hope I'm not having one of my Gleevec enhanced bowel reactions while preparing to slide into the gleaming white electro donut of medicinally focused internal sight!
Of course they're right, and you get to maintain dignity as you pull your pants back up while the awkwardly embarrassed technician looks away... cause apparently they never have to ask other patients to drop trousers? And I made sure all the goods were covered, and the underwear were clean too! hmph :)
Scan Results Say - no new growth to be seen, so it's a stable result with no reduction or change*
* According to Dr Curti, the radiologist read the scan results differently than he does, and in comparing the two scans, the radiologist felt there might be a slight growth in some mets. Dr Curti chalks this up to not seeing this and the previous scans from the same angle and, from his perspective, there was no growth. I'll run with his perspective. Something about their looking from a 130% angle and how he prefers a perpendicular (90%) view? Yeah it sorta made sense to me too :)
I'm now in the middle of the fun that comes with getting my life insurance disability renewed, and being dumb enough to think all of the paperwork they mailed to me all had to be dropped off with the cancer clinic. Apparently they needed me to fill out the exact same stuff I provided last June with regards to how my cancer impacts me, and what my income is. So I'll be getting another letter with that part to provide - I feel less than bright.
Of course... They already know my income since they're providing it. So what the hell? Anyway, whatever, I'm grateful to have their service, and it was me who didn't look over all of the paperwork so wah.
And I must thank my friend JaneAnne from my college days for a fun lunch hang between the un-self soiling CT scan, and my appointment with Dr Curti later in the afternoon.
Oh and for those keeping score on the Gleevec rejections, I have 3 so far - 2 from Blue Cross, and 1 from Aetna/CVS. Dr Curti and my case worker plan to file an appeal. This is likely from my indication that not having a balanced rejection file would mess up my perspective on properly administered cancer medication.
Actually, I would love to be a fly on the wall, if Dr Curti speaks to whatever "expert" they trump up to explain why a C Kit mutated Mucosal Melanoma patient isn't appropriately treated with Gleevec after responding to it for close to a full year... as he's like an Indiana Jones level expert vs. "top people" from a non-descript office.
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