diddly squat (the good kind)

As I mentioned in my last post, I had an MRI last Sunday.I have subsequently had a really trying week (changing appointment times, having to negotiate and fix many bureaucratic issues with staff who don't know me, treatment and two dentist visits, culminating in a spectacularly messy and traumatic root canal) but I've a phone call from my oncologist that put it all in perspective.Dr. G: "Guess what your MRI showed?"Me: "Well, you probably wouldn't have put it like that if it had showed anything bad...So...It didn't show anything?"Dr. G (sounding jubilant): "Nothing! No active disease, no residual disease just the effects of surgery."Me: "So my brain is like my liver now. It looks like it's been through the wars but otherwise it's just fine?"Dr. G: "That's right!"Me: "And that's it?"Dr. G: "Yup! Otherwise, it shows diddly squat." ( I believe that's the technical medical term)I feel far more relieved and happy about this than I did when I had the CT. Not that I take the situation with Herceptin for granted but I do know that it has worked for me for more than 6 years. My brain, on the other hand, remains unprotected. From now on, I'll be experiencing every clean MRI as a gift.Life is good. Bring on the root canals.If you are reading this post on a site other than Not Just About Cancer (besides Facebook or a feed reader), you are reading stolen content.
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