2 Years Cancer Free!

They called me just a minute ago and told me that my PET scan was all clear. This is great news. It is a little unsettling every time you go in there to get examined, even if you feel good, just because you don't know if they are going to find some tiny little lesion somewhere in some little dark corner of your body. Now I'm off to play in the playoffs with my open league team. We are ranked 2nd going into the playoffs. It is nice to play competitively again, although, this is my last time for a while until I can rehab my hip a little more.

Sports Medicine Results

I saw Dr. King last week and he did an x-ray of my hips. The purpose was to find out if I should actually be playing volleyball like I have been doing. I have had a little pain for a day or so after I play, so I wanted to see if there was any way to eliminate that. I asked about these "osteophytes" that were on my femoral heads that one doctor said I should have had athroscopically removed. Dr. King said that my bones look fine and that I should just strengthen the muscles in my hips to stabilize the joints better and to diffuse the force placed on the bones themselves. He said the osteophytes do cause a little impingement in my hip joints, but that it isn't severe enough to warrant surgery. He set me up with some physical therapy.

Yesterday was my PET scan, and I was a pro at it this time. I found a decent position for my arms this time so they didn't even fall asleep so bad. I still look like an idiot in their 3-arm-hole miniskirt gown. I was radioactive for a while, and my kids at Mountain View (I am the new varsity coach there) were a little freaked out that they needed to stand about 10' away at all times. I wrote "stay away from Jason" on the whiteboard, and I drew what could potentially happen to them: the drawing showed a stick figure (before standing near Jason), then a stick figure's legs with a huge mushroom cloud above it (after going near Jason). Rumors surfaced that I could catch on fire at any moment. That was hillarious.

I should get my results today.

2 Year PET Scan coming up

It has been a long time since I've posted to this blog, but that is good, because nothing has really been happening except that I feel better every day. I coached a whole season of club and felt pretty strong the whole time. I have recently started playing again and I have some hip pain, but I can still hang. I am going to look into some surgeries that might help with the hip, I have that appointment in a couple weeks.

I also have my 2 Year PET scan coming up this month. This is the one where they make me radioactive and look for tumors in my whole body. Pretty unsettling being looked at so closely, but I feel optimistic about it.