Endurance
The short version: I had my Jan 2026 scan yesterday and the results are back. It shows a possible area of concern. There is a new enlarged nodule in one of the lymph nodes around my windpipe (1.7x1.3cm). I go to my oncologist on Monday the 19th and we will probably be scheduling more diagnostics to try to determine what is going on. A positive, there was no other areas of concern found anywhere else neck to knee. There also is a possibility that this area could be enlarged from an aspiration event I had over the weekend. So until then, we wait. The longer, musings version. How I am feeling as I hear for the third time that "there is something that looks concerning"... There is a moment—usually it's not dramatic—when you realize that the unthinkable has not stopped life. The possibility of cancer returning, I've discovered, does not arrive like a single blow as the initial diagnosis usually does. Rather it seeps in. It lives just underneath the surf...
