Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Medical: Gut Check, literally, Wednesday 7am

I can tell my oncologist is back at work, and has called this an urgent appointment so they could book it for 7am, but can't tell if this is because the biopsies were clean, or if we're booking appointments assuming that they will be.

7am tomorrow "consultation" with a GI doc, which we hope will progress directly into an upper endoscopy (twixt mouth and stomach) to look for any imperfections in the lymphy lining of my gut.

Weeks ago now, the ENT threaded a camera and light atop a thin black cable up my nose and down my throat (after numbing).  I'm assuming this GI doc will do the same and just keep going to look at throat and stomach.

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