Lieutenant Lumpy: An Update.

Another year, another clean set of scans and a pristine checkup with Dr. Crane and his Irrepressibly Cheerful Staff. (They always seem happy to see me? I guess because I don ' t look like Frankenstein ' s Monster?)Next year, because the lung nodule I have has not changed in six years, I can start getting annual chest x-rays rather than an annual chest CT, along with my usual head/neck/orbits MR. I ' ll have to get all that every year for the foreseeable future, because (as Dr. Crane said), " These stupid salivary gland tumors have a really long fuse. " And they tend to recur in both the original spot and met to really weird places.Still, I ' m happy. I didn ' t have to have radiation, I ' m functional with The Bug, and I ' ve discovered (and am still discovering) benefits to having an obturator for a palate rather than factory equipment.One of the most interesting side effects of having CANSUH has been my failing to give a shit about a number of things that used to be really important. I can ' t believe, for instance, that I worried so much about how I sounded and looked after surgery. I mean, it ' s understandable--the first obturator was barely better than my postsurgical mouth, and the second one, while an improvement, left a *lot* to be desired.(If I had it to do over again, I ' d go back and tell myself that 1) a year seems much longer than it actually is, and 2) to go ahead and buy a Therabite prior to surgery, rather than waiting however many weeks I waited.)I also Don...
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