I get a message last night at 5 pm from my GP’s office.  They wanna see me about my lab results.  I tried calling them back but kept getting their voicemail.  I was stressed for the rest of the night.  What’s wrong with my lab results?  Has my cancer progressed?  Did they find something else wrong? Needless to say, I didn’t sleep well and was up at 3am.

Soon as they were open this morning I was calling them.  The receptionist wouldn’t tell me anything of course but that it was about my lab results.  Crap.  I booked an appointment for 1:50 pm today and had my friend leave work early to take me in.

I get in there, they take my weight, height, blood pressure and he asks me a bunch of questions about my cancer treatment, is it palliative (oncologist listed it as “treatment for palliative care”), who’s paying for the drugs, what’s the treatment plan? How am I managing?  Is it painful? Did I have any other health issues?  No thanks, I think METS is plenty.  Seems they just wanted to get an update on my medical history.  Really?  How does that relate to my labs?  He couldn’t answer that.  I was pissed off!

I did find out about my labs and CT.  White blood count is really low, part of the reason for the fatigue he says.  Tumor markers are up from 60 last month to 65.  No significant growth in my tumor nodules in my left pelvis, right scapula and L2 vertebrae.  I’m still holding steady for now according to him.