Topic: Test, Test, and More Testing!

[Ken]

Time for a bit of an update.
These past few weeks have been an adventure in how to manage pain that if left untreated would cause me to just curl up into a ball of misery. It's not exaggerating to say that the pain levels on the left side of my body has been worse than anything that I've ever experienced before. Using my spine as a dividing point, the pain included my entire left side from my neck down to my waist line and included the neck, arm, ribs, and shoulder front and back.

So, because there did not seem to be an explanation for what was going on we have been running a series of tests, including, NM Whole-body bone scan, MRI, Echocardiogram and maybe some others to come in these next few weeks.

At this point, the testing is showing that my cancer may have spread into my rib cage, but we're not quite ready to settle on that diagnosis.
Cancer can sure can be a dramatic journey.

Currently, my treatment plan is 3-4 10mg OXY tabs a day plus Kay being kind enough to rub me down with Mineral Ice a couple of times a day.