I have a tumor under my skin beside my bottom left-hand jaw. It has biopsied as a metastasized SCC from my skin cancers. So it has to go.
It needs serious surgery to get it out so I will be in hospital for a couple of days recovering. The tumor is in my Parotid (salivary) gland but the surgeon will be Emily Perry who has a record of doing that sort of thing well. It does look like I will lose that salivary gland -- but I have a few others so the salivation should still be OK.
The procedure is on Wednesday but getting various preliminary scans done continued today. I was due to have a MRI at Mater Private. It did not go ahead however. The machine they wanted to put me in was an old one with an aperture much smaller than any other scanner I have encountered. I have never got claustrophobia before but this machine did it and from the moment I went in to it I asked to be let out -- which I was.
I am booked for a PET scan tomorrow morning so I may be able to do the MRI in the afternoon with a better machine
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