{"id":14,"date":"2011-08-12T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tromador.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:28:30","slug":"this-only-happens-to-other-people-doesnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"This only happens to other people, doesn&#8217;t it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Note: Some of these earliest postings were originally posted to facebook, at the time all this stuff was happening. Nice to have it copied to here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It might seem a bit crappy posting this to facebook, but I really can&#8217;t face the thought of ringing all my mates individually and going over the same conversation umpty bazillion times. So here it is, so that everyone knows what is happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I&#8217;ve been having some pain in my shoulder recently and had a number of tests, x-rays, ultrasounds and so on trying to find out what on earth has been going on. When I had my ultrasound, the doctor wanted to get some standard chest x-rays just as a precaution. From there, I was called into have a CT scan, which has revealed a number of enlarged lymph nodes in my chest and this is almost certainly what has been causing my shoulder pain. The upshot of this is that I have now been fast-tracked to get treatment for cancer, with a diagnosis of lymphoma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Quite how bad this is I don&#8217;t yet know. Lymphoma (so they tell me) is one of the least bad types of cancer and there are excellent treatments now available. Basically at this stage, I will be needing to see what the specialist says after further testing including a biopsy and similar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Right now it&#8217;s not feeling very real. Cancer is something that happens to other people and not to me, so I sort of feel like I have this mate who is ill and it&#8217;s not really me. Also I&#8217;m completely focused on the possibility of chemotherapy leading to hair loss, and I&#8217;m sure I have better things to worry about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">So, that&#8217;s my news. Feel free to pass it along.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Some of these earliest postings were originally posted to facebook, at the time all this stuff was happening. Nice to have it copied to here. It might seem a bit crappy posting this to facebook, but I really can&#8217;t face the thought of ringing all my mates individually and going over the same conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.tromador.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}