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25 April 2006

Multiple radial lucencies.
I'm getting my teeth worked on by a couple of graduate students at the UW. I'm up for a little bit of surgery and I had to get a new panorama Xray taken.

Evidently, there are some faint circular shadows on my jaw and one had seemd to change from one panorama to another. Or so one student thought. He wanted me to get a CAT scan.

So, we're talking about possible cancer here ?

Oh, no, oh, no--it could be one of twenty things !


We went back and forth about this--I don't have medical insurance and a CAT scan was a lot of money. But, as it turned out, We could find out with some sort of tomograpy that was quite a bit cheaper.

So, I've spent five days thinking about life and death and how much longer I might have left and all that sort of thing...

So, I had it done today.

And, long story short--things look OK.

Now I feel much relieved and a little tired. So, there is that.
posted by y2karl 25 April | 18:14
Now that you have a CAT scan, you can get a mold of your own skull made.

I'm glad to hear you're doing okay, y2karl.
posted by interrobang 25 April | 18:19
Er, tomography--I had my head propped on a post while this x ray machine swirled around my head like some sort of Tilt-a-whirl. up and down and back and forth. It was very strange.

But at least I got an instant response on the it all looks OK part. At least, that's how it sounded. Haven't talked to my dentists yet, so I'm feeling tentatively, rather than definitely, better.
posted by y2karl 25 April | 18:19
Good deal, Karl. I'll buy you a beer at the meetup on Saturday (Elysian 6 pm) to celebrate.
posted by matildaben 25 April | 18:21
I would take what your grad student said with a huge grain of salt, especially where it comes to any diagnosis about significant aspects of your health.
posted by AlexReynolds 25 April | 18:38
Glad you're ok, y2karl. But sorry you had to go through that. Scary stuff.
posted by jrossi4r 25 April | 18:43
This is why it is called medical practice. They just keep practicing.

And we're supposed to be patient.
posted by warbaby 25 April | 18:50
Teeth are a bitch, my man. I'm tempted to remove 'em all and grow baleen like a whale, although that would make eating ribs difficult.
posted by jonmc 25 April | 18:52
Nah, you just have to suck really hard.

Teeth are a bitch, all right - I recently decided to finally get something done about mine before they all fall out of my head. So far I have spend close to $2k in the past few months with very little visible difference. it will be good to be able to eat whatever I want when the work is finished, but I won't be able to afford to buy food.

Glad to hear that your results were positive, karl.
posted by dg 25 April | 19:25
Glad you've got at least tentative good news, y2karl. I, too, will buy you a beer to celebrate.
posted by elizard 25 April | 21:41
If you need an feel like venting any fears to a near stranger, I'd be happy to listen.
posted by frecklefaerie 26 April | 11:29
NSFW, but is it porn? || Has anyone here ever worn prescription swim goggles?

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