Health
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 →
Went to see the vampire again, this morning. Had to give enough to fill 3 vials this time.
I’m always fascinated by the different colour coding on the tubes they fill. This one has a yellow stripe tape, this one red, another is green. I know one is to be tested for my magnesium levels, the other two? Cancer markers.
I now know my blood will scream, Red Alert! Red Alert! to the doctor to let them know if there’s any pesky aliens in my blood work. Thereby alerting us early enough (I hope) to take action.
So very thankful for modern medicine.
𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧
Thursday, November 6, 2025 • 1 min read
More good news from the doctor this morning. Well, good in that he reaffirmed that my surgery seems to have gotten all the nasty stuff, and that blood tests and scans show no signs of any lingering cells anywhere.
That said. Every 4 months for the next 2 years I have to do a blood test to check my markers to see if they’re still good. Plus, every year for the next 2 I have to have a yearly colonoscopy.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • 2 min read
Tomorrow I have to get up at the ungodly hour of 6 am because of a doctor’s appointment at 8:15. It’s my follow up with my cancer surgeon and, because he starts surgery at 8:45, he literally squeezes in patient follow-ups beforehand.
Don’t feel sorry for me getting up at that silly time to shower and eat, he get’s up even earlier, because that’s his life of a surgeon these days.
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Friday, October 31, 2025 • 1 min read
Just had the call I’ve been waiting for from the pharmacy about my blood test results for my magnesium and … good news, my levels are back in the top end of ‘Normal’ which means no more magnesium pills. For now at least.
I am so happy. The pharmacist explain that my magnesium was probably always low because of the stomach pills I was on for my ulcer. But once I stopped taking those as I no longer have the ulcer, the magnesium levels went back up.
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Friday, October 24, 2025 →
Just got a reminder from my pharmacy to say don’t forget, I have an appointment tomorrow morning for my combo flu and covid shots.
Reminder to the rest of you, don’t forget to get Vaxxed this season, save lives!
Monday, October 20, 2025 →
So, for all of you who are following along. This morning I went for my follow up endoscopy at the hospital. A three minute prceedure that, in the end, took almost three and a half hours.
But … skipping all boring details … the good news is: MY ULCER IS GONE.
Healed one assumes. And, as a result, the doctor told me I could stop at least one drug straight away. As to the second one? Well, I have no idea who to ask about that one. It remains to be seen over the coming weeks what effect this will have on my guts and health going forward. It’s certainly a weight off my shoulders to know the ulcer is gone. And maybe, just maybe, things are slowly getting back to normal.
My next doctor’s appointment is with the colon surgeon on November 6th.
I am so hoping for more good news.