Fungible Convictions

No, not me. This time it was Lindsay at the Brigham E.R. She’ll all good now, but she had some pretty awful stomach pain. (We know 95% for sure what caused it, and it’s a little gross, so I won’t explain it here.)

What make Lindsay the most uncomfortable wasn’t as much the pain but being back in an emergency room that was the scene of this two years ago. Of course I don’t remember it, but when she checked in today, the nurse said, “Whitacre? Have you been here before?”

i.e., a bunch of slides about my case. Here’s a link to the full presentation. But I have some favorite slides. . . .

Page 11 is the first time I saw images of my tumor. See below the piece labeled “mass”:

Page 14 is the first time I saw my own histopathology, with cancerous cells circled:

And, what’s extraordinarily humbling and makes me thankful that Marc and Dr. Abend were so damn good at their jobs, is how bad things look in a PET scan when Hodgkin’s reaches stage IV: