Woohoo! Have moved to the happy point where, despite groping me like a teenage boy at a drive-in, my oncologist can’t actually FIND Tumor-Bob. HER: Sorry for the pressure…sorry…is that…no…uh… Can YOU find it? ME: Oh, I lost track of him weeks ago. - ThreadSky

tkingfisher.com • 547 days ago

Woohoo! Have moved to the happy point where, despite groping me like a teenage boy at a drive-in, my oncologist can’t actually FIND Tumor-Bob.

HER: Sorry for the pressure…sorry…is that…no…uh… Can YOU find it?
ME: Oh, I lost track of him weeks ago.

Comments

bookzombie.bsky.social•544 days ago

Yay! Excellent news

tkingfisher.com•547 days ago

This is very good! This means Tumor-Bob has shrunk and gone mushy to the point where we can only spot him on an ultrasound. Since before it felt like I had a walnut in my boob, this is awesome.

Truly we live in an age of medical wonders.

rozlovesfood.bsky.social•547 days ago

Yay!

stefanejones.bsky.social•544 days ago

💯👍

Are they still going to zap Tumor-Bob's remnants and/or get out the melon baller?

Amazing if they can do the job with just chemo.

tkingfisher.com•544 days ago

Both! Melon-baller in December, then I get a month to heal up, then radiation on the offending boob. Altogether, that should drop my chance of recurrence to about 5%.

stefanejones.bsky.social•544 days ago

Combined arms approach!

Hoping surgery is a quick nothingburger and that zapping goes smoothly!

samwisefosterholm.bsky.social•544 days ago

A nat 1's chance of recurrence doesn't seem too bad.

bullcityfats.bsky.social•544 days ago

I was thinking that's too high. But if it's as low as you can get it...

olinj.bsky.social•544 days ago

Get a couple of sports bras that clasp in the front ahead of time. Even 4 years out from my initial diagnosis (3 yrs 8 months from my last radiation treatment), my cancer surgeon is adamant about me having support. Right after? They wanted me to sleep in bras... so have comfy ones.

patchworkmouse.bsky.social•544 days ago

You'll especially need comfy ones during the radiation treatments. My place recommended all-cotton ones with no seams.

annabeth0.bsky.social•544 days ago

I'm so glad the chemo is working!

archangelbeth.bsky.social•547 days ago

Mushy is good, then? Because it's being dissolved and destroyed by the body's clean-up crew?

vazdimet.com•547 days ago

Yay! This is excellent news, I'm so happy for you!

annateresa.bsky.social•547 days ago

Congratulations! I'm so relieved for you.

catblossom.bsky.social•544 days ago

Take a squishy hike, Tumor-Bob!(and good job being an inhospitable host, can't wait to see how this creeps up to scare me in fiction someday 🙀)

astridsdream.bsky.social•547 days ago

Yay! Bye Tumor-Bob, don’t let the poison hit you on the mushy butt on the way out!

tyschalter.com•547 days ago

! This is great to hear!

susanlanigan.bsky.social•547 days ago

Excellent news! I was surgery first so didn’t have the experience of seeing it shrink first

spaceturtleart.bsky.social•547 days ago

That's awesome!

marafish.bsky.social•547 days ago

best news I've heard in days!

crowelizabeth.bsky.social•547 days ago

That's really fantastic!

I still think it's a shame that you couldn't take him home in a specimen jar, though.

robinbobcat.bsky.social•547 days ago

*paints a walnut pink*
*adds googly eyes*
*puts in jar with a little suitcase*

crowelizabeth.bsky.social•547 days ago

Brilliant!

teapotrabbit.bsky.social•547 days ago

Hurrah!! I am so glad to hear a things are going well for you and very, very poorly for Tumor-Bob.

syzara.bsky.social•547 days ago

excellent news! I'm happy for you!

kolibri.bsky.social•547 days ago

Congratulations! 🎈

theparthecraft.bsky.social•547 days ago

Wonderful news

riderius.bsky.social•547 days ago

May he continue to shrink until he is but a bad memory and a series of entertaining stories.

susanontherocks.bsky.social•547 days ago

Picturing tumor-bob doing a slo-mo of the thing that happens to the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Complete with agonized screams of “I’m melting!”