Cat Scan day sucks. The procedure itself isn't unpleasant, except for the contrast you have to drink to make the pictures usable. The stuff is a thick liquid that tastes like liquified pop tarts. But not the good Kellogg's Pop Tarts. The cheap price club 5 boxes/$2.50 pop tarts. Ugh...

Anyway, once you go through the chamber the images are uploaded to some computer, but you can get a copy of the disk. So I have been able to learn how to read some basic images. My scans are easy for the untrained eye, because I have lots of tumors, and some are quite large. So here are a few pics to let you see what the scans and the tumors look like.


This is a cross-section of the lungs. The small isolated white areas are tumors. Only a few are indicated, but you can see there are several. Some of the white areas that have trailing tails are actually healthy tissue.


Ahh...my liver. Surprised it is still even there. The darker abnormally-shaped regions are large masses of tumor.

I show these because when I'm out with friends, walking around, having a good time people have a hard time believing I have a terminal disease. Sometimes I feel like carrying around a copy of a hospital bill to show them. Then they would really understand. But nothing relays information to the masses like pictures.

If you are 30 or older, or you have a history of cancer in your family, GO GET CHECKED OUT. Suck up the payment part if you can, but this crap is a hell of a lot easier to fight if you catch it early.