Some of you are thinking right now, "What is he talking about?" Well, I'll explain. When I had my double hernia repair surgery in December, I started having really bad pains in an area that was not near the repairs. A few ER visits later and I was diagnosed with acute Diverticulitis, but on my post op appointment with my doctor, he said that he suspected it could be cancer, as sometimes it can appear to be diverticulitis on CT scans, so a colonoscopy was scheduled. If it was diverticulitis and was bad enough, I would have to have my colon resectioned to fix the issue, if it was cancer, we would have to see the severity and plan accordingly, a lot of tears and fears that day.
Today, I had said colonoscopy and it was not diverticulitis. There was a precancerous polyp in my colon, so, he was correct. Luckily, it was early enough that he was able to get it out and it looks like there wasn't any that had spread. Tears for good reasons now. Several times (especially during the prep day before when I couldn't eat), I thought of just rescheduling and eating to my hearts content. I mean, it's when you can't eat that everything on TV is food commercials, and EVERYTHING looks great, even if it's food I don't like. I'm very glad I didn't, and let me encourage anyone who thinks they might have an issue to get it checked out, ASAP.
In my mind, I ran through all the worst case scenarios, cancer, surgery, and what treatment options I would have if surgery didn't work. I have a tendency to do that, as a professional hypochondriac. While it was scary that it was what it was, I'm very thankful that it wasn't as bad as I feared.
I'll close out this brief entry with a reiteration, if you have pain or problems, get it checked out, don't wait.
Until next time, dear readers...
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