I had a physical last week, the first in a number of years, although I’ve had a complete blood work-up annually for at least the last decade. Part of the physical was a chest x-ray.<\/p>\n
The doctor’s office called today to tell me that the x-ray revealed a spot on one lung, and they want to do a cat scan to see if it’s anything to be concerned about. I can have this done at time that’s convenient for me…as long as it’s between 1:30 and 1:32 p.m. tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Well.<\/p>\n
Let me say that in my heart of hearts, I believe there is nothing to this. I’ve never smoked, never been exposed to secondhand smoke in any meaningful quantity. I have no symptoms of anything out of the ordinary — aside from the splitting headaches, temporary blindness in one eye, and inability to complete a th…um, where was I? Just kidding, of course, except for the last thing, and my wife will tell you I’ve had that on my plate for going on 31 years now. Anyway, after receiving the call, I went for a 20 mile bike ride. I’m sure<\/strong> this is just a precautionary move, a wise thing to do, but ultimately not important.<\/p>\n OTOH…my mind is really good at coming up with doomsday scenarios: will I be the strong hero type through the experimental and traumatic treatment, or will I whine incessantly? Will I burn through all our 401Ks and IRAs while pursuing exotic treatments, leaving us destitute, homeless and probably dependent on a Windows machine, or will my blogger friends start a fund that will not only pay all my expenses but leave enough to begin a foundation for future victims of the newly-discovered disease that now bears my name? Will I look at this post tomorrow evening and chuckle, or will it be the demarcation for a new chapter in the pitifully short time left to me before I shuffle off this mortal strand?<\/p>\n Do you hear violins? I’m sure I hear violins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a physical last week, the first in a number of years, although I’ve had a complete blood work-up annually for at least the last decade. Part of the physical was a chest x-ray. The doctor’s office called today to tell me that the x-ray revealed a spot on one lung, and they want… Continue reading A little scary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/4579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}